Welcome to the VU. If you can't find what you need here just ask.USCG 7 years active duty, currently stationed in bahrain
Brave Rifles-Veterans!Us Army '87-'91. Desert Shield/Storm.
Brave Rifles-Veterans!
Blood and Steel- Ai-ee-yah!
"Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!" General Winfield Scott
19D
I Trp Thunder Squadron
OIF 3-6
Glad to see others that wore the "Squashed Bug"! And thank you to ALL fellow Veterans regardless of branch!
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Brave Rifles-Veterans!
Blood and Steel- Ai-ee-yah!
"Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!" General Winfield Scott
19D
Ironhawk Troop, Thunder Squadron, 3d Cav
OIF 3-6
Glad to see others that wore the "Squashed Bug"! And thank you to ALL fellow Veterans regardless of branch!
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Active army, 25L E4 2010-???
Currently sitting in Afghanistan....
Ouch, being a cable dog on deployment must suck. I know the ones in my unit back in OIF 2004-5 were basically turned into orderly room bitches, drivers and were the detail bitches any time division wanted bodies for something.
Nope. I actually splice fiber, run cables, even manage the AFN for our fob here. It's a lot better than my first one, that one I basically only worked on a JNN and STT
US Army, SSG, 19D, 1-91 CAV Airborne, Grafenwoehr Germany
Much love and respect to all those that serve and have served.
My pops served 20 years in the US Army and retired in 03 out of Ft. Drum at the age of 39. Grabbed his pension and hasnt really worked since. Hes certainly "retired" lol. As bad a rap as the Armed Forces get as a "job", you do get great benefits and retirement plan. Wish I would have bucked up and joined myself when I was younger. I spent almost my entire childhood and teenage years living on military bases and around military families and its an awesome life. Theres just a certain atmosphere on a military base, where ever you go, I cant describe it, but its awesome and I miss it. Makes me wanna marry an enlisted broad just to go back lol.
I debated posting here as I was not on a long chain. Made it through basic to the fleet for what seemed a day. That was back in 1996 they allow me to wear E-9 stripes for a day literally. Needed that rank to see the orders I would have had, had I not been processed out with a general discharge. Twenty years later I am still not sure why I could not have been left as damage control or a technician taking things apart or putting them back together.
Apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallmann_syndrome means you don't quite fit muster for whatever excuse is offered. Had a man I called dad who was finally retired after nearly thirty years and was sen. master chief who thought as much too. He said it should have been handled a lot better. Instead, "sign here, here, here, you go home, rush, hurry, run on dog! No don't bother reading it, it's all broiler plate and all on the board. just sign, son."
When I went it was with full understanding and I meant to honor every oath, and if I could have twenty years or more was in my heart. Navy it seems thought otherwise. On a positive note, met my wife. She says they won't be allowed to cluster fuck it with me again, they done had their chance to get her fine man and now they can piss off.
No disrespect intended, except a slight bit toward the bureaucracy machine. I and they are probably both better on that I did not stay.
It's not always a good ride, sometimes you just get thrown out for no reason, sometimes you come back from the frying pan with full blown PTSD and get written off by the VA because they say you have a 'personality disorder' which disqualifies you from any assistance. Not every ride is a good one, Uncle Sam has FUCKED a lot of vets over the years.
It's not always a good ride, sometimes you just get thrown out for no reason, sometimes you come back from the frying pan with full blown PTSD and get written off by the VA because they say you have a 'personality disorder' which disqualifies you from any assistance. Not every ride is a good one, Uncle Sam has FUCKED a lot of vets over the years.