How Many of our members are veterans?
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doublejj
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I believe they were Titans. I overheard the name from my father. We were not supposed to be there, so it was all really hush hush. We weren't allowed to talk to anyone about what my father was there for. Mt dad wasn't really supposed to have his family there, but my mom insisted. I went to a "Peace Corps" school and there were many more "teachers' than they needed. Looking back on it, I'm sure many were not really teachers....
doublejj
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The 9th was stationed mostly down on the Mekong river delta in Vietnam. We would go on 3 day search & destroy patrols and never get out of ankle deep water..................................................[video=youtube;p1DOSDcWAGY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p1DOSDcWAGY[/video]
potroastV2
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US Navy 3/20/1972 - 2/26/1976 Aviation Data Analyst
pabloesqobar
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US Navy. 87 to 96. Sonar tech and military police.
greenthumb111
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US Army 73-77 (6011 MASH in USA and HQ 3rd Armored [Elivs' unit] in Germany) Combat Medic/Xray Tech/Medical Supply. Didn't go to Nam but almost did in 74 while in Medic training. Happy Veterans Day my Brothers.
yellowrain53
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USAF '98-'08 Aerial Gunner
Happy veterans day!
bigfattone420
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US Navy 72-76 HC-2 Helicopter Squadron..Commisary/Cook..Big up to fellow vets
Singlemalt
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LONDON (AP) — Hundreds have attended the funeral of a 99-year-old former World War II airman who died without family after a nursing home appealed for strangers to give him a send-off.
Harold Percival died Oct. 25 in Lytham St. Annes, northwest England. The nursing home placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking military personnel to attend the service.
The ad was taken up on Twitter, and several hundred soldiers, veterans and civilians gathered at a crematorium Monday to pay respects to Percival, who served as ground crew with the Royal Air Force during the war.
The Rev. Alan Clark told mourners they had "come in numbers surpassing anything that was expected. Not because you knew him, but because each of us has a common humanity."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/100s-attend-funeral-world-war-ii-veteran
Harold Percival died Oct. 25 in Lytham St. Annes, northwest England. The nursing home placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking military personnel to attend the service.
The ad was taken up on Twitter, and several hundred soldiers, veterans and civilians gathered at a crematorium Monday to pay respects to Percival, who served as ground crew with the Royal Air Force during the war.
The Rev. Alan Clark told mourners they had "come in numbers surpassing anything that was expected. Not because you knew him, but because each of us has a common humanity."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/100s-attend-funeral-world-war-ii-veteran
doublejj
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Oh My Fuckin God!...My niece just found this picture of me from 1969 and posted it to her facebook page. I had No Idea these photo's still existed!...... one of my last innocent days........next stop Vietnam.....Damn, what a punk looking kid, no wonder my father-in-law hated me!....
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Singlemalt
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So you're the guy that's stealing my grey hair !
Oh and 92-96'. (8553) e-4. No im not showing my face here!
If you were in the military and bought a rock lamp in Tehran, out of the trunk of a C-141, you might know my hub.
Thank you all for your service. Me and my entire family are appreciative.
Because I can't show the hub (he's still working in a cannabis non-friendly position). Here's my dad (US Army 42 to 47 ish), and my great great uncle (US Army 186x ish). Uncle Bob died in combat and my dad got in a bit of a kerfuffle surrounding some missing PCN, an AWOL and my mother's obviously unrelated recovery from pneumonia.
Oh and honey..... remember.....
[video=youtube;zQfF84ackMM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfF84ackMM[/video]
Thank you all for your service. Me and my entire family are appreciative.
Because I can't show the hub (he's still working in a cannabis non-friendly position). Here's my dad (US Army 42 to 47 ish), and my great great uncle (US Army 186x ish). Uncle Bob died in combat and my dad got in a bit of a kerfuffle surrounding some missing PCN, an AWOL and my mother's obviously unrelated recovery from pneumonia.
Oh and honey..... remember.....
[video=youtube;zQfF84ackMM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfF84ackMM[/video]
Reminds me of riding ships in the Caribbean in the 80's.
At night, running blacked out with no moon it is darker than the devil's heart & the fantail was a popular place for pot smokers (Pre piss-test era) but "somehow" word would get passed that someone of elevated rank was sneaking up trying to horn in on the action.
~ Look at all the pretty fireflys ~
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