Military Branch Survey

[rifleman_btx]

You guys remember this? Yup that's my boy going through what I had done 10 years ago. Lol

[rifleman_btx]

Absolutely! Theres the jungle swamp! Cut us a runway!:):Cool: you seabees fellas rock! Can take an armpit of the earth and turn it into some prime military real estate!:Cool:

[Valkpilot]

Navy Seabees NMCB 23
1986-94
Cm2

Well I guess we now know who to talk to about getting a runway built properly.:)

[rifleman_btx]

Yes sir, 10 for me in that same room

[DR. Joy]

Thanks brother

That was me some 35 years ago. Time flies.

[rifleman_btx]

Thanks brother

[Hardway]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats! Wow.....

[rifleman_btx]

Here he goes, welcome the newest members of the club fellas!

[rifleman_btx]

[rifleman_btx]

Tomorrow morning the 4th generation of my family will be flown to ft Leonardwood for BCT.

[Artimus]

U s Army - 1962 to 1965 - Vietnam
Dulce et Decorum Est

BY Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.


Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.


In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.


If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

[OV10]

KevinK and Valkpilot............welcome to the Squawk brothers ;)

Don't forget to make your mark on the branch survey at post #1

[Valkpilot]

USN 1983-2003, Information Systems Technician
USS Sacramento (AOE-1)
USS Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS George Washington (CVN-73) (PLANKOWNER)
USS John C, Stennis (CVN-74)

[KevinK]

A.F. from 73-94. Comm weenie started in Nav-Aids with a switch to Satcom. Aside from basic and tech schools, assigned stateside to Eielson AK, Maxwell AL and Randolph TX. Special duty tour to FRG with LORAN. A fun time in the Mob (1st Combat Comm) in the FRG, UK, Italy, Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Israel and some I don't recall. And a final tour with WHCA.

[Bill-D]

USAF 1982-2007 (Comm/Network Engineer)

[DR. Joy]

US Army 1982-1988. Had been enlisted and went back to school. I was injured in a training accident about one week before my commissioning and had to find a whole new career. Spent most of my time in Central America during my enlisted years.

[Hoomi]

Car accident ended my USAF obligations ROTC 1976.Took my pilot slot (2 per class) and gave it to the next guy in line as I had facial reconstruction.
Got an internship with NASA in the 80’s which got terminated when Sikorsky, McDonnell Douglas and several others floundered and NASA suspended the program for years. Would have been making models for wind tunnel testing.
Finally got into aviation in 2004.
But thank all of you who served, you have my deepest respect for doing the job and my deepest regrets for not being there to help you.

From what I read there, it wasn't for lack of trying. Considering the prevailing attitudes about military service in the mid-1970s, that fact that you were working towards military service is respectable as well.

[F22trainer]

Car accident ended my USAF obligations ROTC 1976.Took my pilot slot (2 per class) and gave it to the next guy in line as I had facial reconstruction.
Got an internship with NASA in the 80’s which got terminated when Sikorsky, McDonnell Douglas and several others floundered and NASA suspended the program for years. Would have been making models for wind tunnel testing.
Finally got into aviation in 2004.
But thank all of you who served, you have my deepest respect for doing the job and my deepest regrets for not being there to help you.

[BigElectFlyr]

Don, you wouldn't recognize the area around the old George AFB facility any longer.

Hesperia is bigger than Victorville now, by a LONG shot. Traffic up Cajon Pass is a mess nearly every day. They've widened I-15 up through the Pass, and it still jams up.

Highway 138 from the middle of the pass out towards Palmdale is now two lanes each direction. There is a signal at Mountaintop, where the road to Wrightwood meets 138.

We lived in Phelan, about 15 miles west of Hesperia, from '84 through '94. I was back up there a couple of months ago for my uncle's funeral, and couldn't believe how much it's changed.

I always did enjoy watching the Phantoms fly overhead while we lived out there, though.

Hey Hoomi. Yeh, I know about the condition of George AFB. Moved back to San Diego in '88-'95, and visited quite a few times. Also get by there every couple years because one of my daughters is still in San Diego. The bomb dump, where I worked, is a federal penitentiary now. Going back next spring for last granddaughter's graduation.

[crxmanpat]

Wow, I had to look up T-41 (military version of the Cessna 172) and T-43 (Boeing 737-200).