I was conceived in Okinawa, haha. My Pops did a couple of tours in Vietnam in the Army, he was in a mechanical division and has a tattoo that says PIG PEN on it whatever that is all about. My step brother was a Marine and served in Beirut when the embassy thing went down, his son is currently a Marine and deployed somewhere in the Middle East last I heard. My Grandpa was a paratrooper in WWII.
I couldn't enlist due to a heart condition, my hats off to all of you that have served!!

75'-81' - Ft. Dix, NJ/Ft. Polk, LA/Ft. Benning, GA (1/2 yr), Ft. Lewis, WA (2 yrs), Vicenza, IT (3 1/2 yrs)
U.S. Army
IRF Light Infantry (Airborne)

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USMC 1989-93
Parris Island
Okinawa 12th marines
Camp Pendleton 11th marines
Mogadishu, Somalia, 3bn 11th marines

I never hunted on base, i was to busy getting drunk and acting stupid

alot of my friends did on camp Pendleton mostly rabbit, I was at our shop on A sunday to celebrate someone getting out of the brig and a guy in my unit shot a rabbit with his bow. I thought that was pretty cool, we barbecued it right their

It taste like chicken

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Those army guys got left out to dry, it makes me sick, you can thank bill Clinton for that

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Army, 1989 to 1992 - 19K or M1 tanker, Ft. Knox KY, Kirchgoens Germany and Desert Storm with 4/32nd Armor 3rd AD 1990-1991and 1st CAV Ft. Hood Tx.

National Guard, 1992 to 2001 - 88M, Truck Driver, 4/34th St. Cloud MN unit, time in Guatemala, Panama and Flood Fight in western MN 1996.

Army Reserves, 2001 to 2005 - 88M, Truck Driver, 212th QM Arden Hills MN, OIF 2003 as involuntarily cross-attached to 685th trans out of Hobart IN. Discharged and ETS 12/2005.

United States Air Force '88-'92 Desert Storm Vet
37th Tactical Fighter Wing, 35th AGS, 561st AMU (Wild Weasels) and later 20th Training Squadron AMU
I was a Hydraulics/pneumatics mechanic on F-4 E and G model fighter/bombers. I was later cross trained into Crew chief and Jet Engine mechanic when the rolled all three jobs into one (rivet workforce)

Then at the end of my enlistment I was on a special transfer team that worked directly under the commander of maintenance for our wing. Our job was to do flyable storage and ready aircraft for sale or decommission as the base was closing down and the F-4's were phased out.

The F-4 wild weasels played a large roll in the Vietnam war and the 561st was one of the first military groups to go to Desert Shield/Storm. The main mission was to locate and take out Surface to Air sites, They also targeted mobile SCUD launchers. A lot of the pilots I got to work with had considerable rank and were Vietnam combat veterans with combat experience and confirmed kills. Very cool guys to talk to. Not like the young know it all pilots.

Paul