Veterans, where and when?

[KSigMason]

Idaho Army Nation Guard
2002 - 2014
OIF III - Intel Analyst
OND - TUAS S/O

[Red_wolf_rising]

Iowa Army National Guard August 2007-April 2009
US Army Active Duty April 2009-January 2012
OEF Veteran, May 2010-May 2011
Infantry
101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell Kentucky

[Eupher]

Enlisted Jan. 75 as an ASA Cook, Ft. Devens, MA. (Yeah, I slopped shingles.)
Reenlisted summer 1977 in the Army band program (euphonium instrumentalist).
Returned to Ft. Devens Apr 78 after the Basic Music Course, Naval Amphib Base, Little Creek, VA.
Ordered to Germany March 79, 1st Armored Division Band, Ansbach, Germany.
Ordered to Ft. Hood, TX March 82, 2nd Armored Division Band, Ft. Hood, TX.
Ordered to West Berlin, Germany, Jan. 83, 298th Army Band.
Ordered to Bad Kreuznach, Germany, Sept. 91, 8th Infantry Division Band, reflagged to 1st Armored Division Band after Desert Storm (Jan. 92).
Retired from active duty Feb. 95.

Highlight of my career was watching the Berlin Wall come down. Not necessarily a fun experience, but to be involved in some of that history was inspiring.

You ain't lived until you've seen communism, up close and personal.

[djones520]

Enlisted Jan. 75 as an ASA Cook, Ft. Devens, MA. (Yeah, I slopped shingles.)
Reenlisted summer 1977 in the Army band program (euphonium instrumentalist).
Returned to Ft. Devens Apr 78 after the Basic Music Course, Naval Amphib Base, Little Creek, VA.
Ordered to Germany March 79, 1st Armored Division Band, Ansbach, Germany.
Ordered to Ft. Hood, TX March 82, 2nd Armored Division Band, Ft. Hood, TX.
Ordered to West Berlin, Germany, Jan. 83, 298th Army Band.
Ordered to Bad Kreuznach, Germany, Sept. 91, 8th Infantry Division Band, reflagged to 1st Armored Division Band after Desert Storm (Jan. 92).
Retired from active duty Feb. 95.

Highlight of my career was watching the Berlin Wall come down. Not necessarily a fun experience, but to be involved in some of that history was inspiring.

You ain't lived until you've seen communism, up close and personal.

A guy I work with was Intel in Berlin during those days. He says it was the most exciting time of his service.

[Zeus]

US Army '79 - '87
Stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood,Mo. Ft. Gordon Ga. , Ft. Hauchuca , Az,
Kaiserslautern , Darmstadt, Stuttgart & heidlburg Germany
Honduras

[Generation Why?]

US Army
April 2008 - Present
Fort Bragg, NC
OND - Baghdad, Al Asad
Fort Lewis, WA

35/96 Type

[southernlady]

Went thru ROTC. Was an E5/SMP (Simultaneous Membership Program) assigned to the SCARNG in 1980-82.
Went active duty in 1982.
Spent time at Ft. Gordon, GA before being assigned to the 128th Signal Company in Brunnsum, The Netherlands.
We moved the 128th company headquarters the next year to Chievres, Belgium.

Got off active duty in 1984, spent the next 6 years inactive reserve.

Liz

[oldcoastie1]

US Coast Guard, enlisted in Buffalo, NY on 1/8/1964, discharged from Group Charlevoix, MI, on 1/5/1968.

Boot Camp Cape May, NJ.
YN/SK School, Groton, CT.
Base Terminal Island, CA.
Group Santa Barbara.
CGAS/STA/Group San Diego.
Group Charlevoix, MI.

Qualified as a coxswain on 40' utility boats at San Diego.

No heroics, only things the Coast Guard does on a daily basis.

[J P Sousa]

Marine Corps '64 to '67
Marine Detachment USS Wright CC-2
The USS Wright was a sister ship to the USS Northampton both outfitted as emergency relocation for the President and/or the Pentagon chiefs of staff during times of war.

A more memorable time was when we were stationed off the coast of Uruguay South America.
President Johnson was to meet with Latin American leaders at a summit hosted by Uruguay, in Punta del Este, April 1967.
We as Marines were in full battle gear 24 hours/day for three days while Johnson was in Uruguay in case an extraction was needed.

An amusing story occured on our way home when the Lieutenant instructed the squad leader responsible for the flame thrower, which was loaded with tear gas, to empty the flame thrower off the Fantail. The Lieutenant obviously did not realize that one of the "fresh air in-takes" was located at the Fantail. Countless sailors were lined up at sick bay with coughing and wattery eyes.

We visited such hot spots as Rio de Janeiro, Fort Lauderdale, San Juan Puerto Rico (biggest hangover), Bar Harbor Maine, New York City, Newport, RI (I think that was the port), and of course Norfolk VA.

[MstrBlue]

Entered USAF DEP in Jun 1979
USAF Active duty Jun 1980
Avionics Tech school, Chanute AFB, IL
Hurlburt Fld, FL 1980-1983
Spangdahlem AB, Germany 1983-1986
Travis AFB, CA 1986-1990
Frankfurt AB, Germany 1990-1993
Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ 1993-1995
Robins AFB, GA 1995-2000 (retirement)

And we liked it here, so we stayed!
Yankee by birth, Southern by choice!