How many servicemen do we have here?

beatnic
beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
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It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.
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  • Knoxca1
    Knoxca1 Posts: 148 ✭✭
    Active duty navy, been in for 10 years. Only planned to do 4.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    beatnic:
    It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.


    Are you referring to active duty?
  • rzaman
    rzaman Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭
    Not directly related to the Armed Forces but facilitate their overseas work very closely.
  • skweekz
    skweekz Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭
    Air Force veteran here
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    jlmarta:
    beatnic:
    It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.


    Are you referring to active duty?
    Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/
  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    Marines here.
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    beatnic:
    jlmarta:
    beatnic:
    It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.


    Are you referring to active duty?
    Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/
    Hey, JL, you got any old tatoos of an anchor, or MOM?. That'l work. LOL
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    marineatbn03:
    Marines here.
    I guessed that one. Others are equally as obvious.
  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    beatnic:
    marineatbn03:
    Marines here.
    I guessed that one. Others are equally as obvious.
    Figured it went without saying.....
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    beatnic:
    beatnic:
    jlmarta:
    beatnic:
    It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.


    Are you referring to active duty?
    Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/
    Hey, JL, you got any old tatoos of an anchor, or MOM?. That'l work. LOL


    No, but I've got one on my left forearm that was put there in anticipation of my going into submarine duty. The design closely resembles the submariner emblem and was to be modified into the complete emblem when I was stationed aboard a sub. Only thing is, my discharge came through before my sub billet did so it never got changed. And it doesn't say MOM but it does have my Navy nickname included in it. My, my, the things young studs will do, eh? :-)
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    Navy vet. VFA-125 NAS Lemoore, CA.
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Former Tanker, M-60 A1; M-60 A3; M-1; also did a stint as a recruiter; then National Guard as a Tanker again. Also, Army brat, Dad did 30 years, & my son, who left his right hand in Afghanistan, along with losing his right ear-drum, and about 8 broken Vertebrae in his back and neck.
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  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    Well thank you and your family for your sacrifices.
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    marineatbn03:
    Well thank you and your family for your sacrifices.
    And to you, sir for what you're doing now! For me it was all fun & games, (and hard work and freezing my ass off etc.), but for some it was a lot more. I guess I should also mention 2 uncles who were at Pearl Harbor, when IT happened, and my wife's Dad, who landed at Normandy on day two, not much fighting, but a lot of dead bodies & debris, decidedly affected him for the rest of his life!
    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    Good lord, your family has some strong history. I would love to sit down and have a smoke and hear some stories.
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    Pearl Harbor!, Normandy!, a tanker!, submariner! Marine! Anybody jump out of a plane? I'm humbled.
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    Does HALO school count?
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    Toombes:
    Does HALO school count?
    No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    beatnic:
    Toombes:
    Does HALO school count?
    No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

    You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
    High
    Altitude
    Low
    Opening
    Special Forces Jump school.
  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    Toombes:
    beatnic:
    Toombes:
    Does HALO school count?
    No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

    You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
    High
    Altitude
    Low
    Opening
    Special Forces Jump school.
    By far one of the best schools
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    marineatbn03:
    Toombes:
    beatnic:
    Toombes:
    Does HALO school count?
    No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

    You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
    High
    Altitude
    Low
    Opening
    Special Forces Jump school.
    By far one of the best schools

    And one I never wish to endure again...
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    You jumped out of perfectly good airplanes? That goes against human nature.
  • marineatbn03
    marineatbn03 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭
    Thats just pure fun. What is not fun is jumping out of a plane at 500 ft and HOPING your chute works. Atleast at 13,000 you have time.
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    Bail out at 13K+ and pull at 1700... Water hurts at 57MPH, but damn it was cool!!
  • Churchill83
    Churchill83 Posts: 80
    Active duty Air Force here; aircraft mechanic on the KC-135 tanker
  • Steve2010
    Steve2010 Posts: 1,036 ✭
    24 years as an M1, M1A1, and M1A2 tanker. Desert Storm, OIF3. Still training Soldiers and Marines on a daily basis in Kuwait.
  • wwhwang
    wwhwang Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭
    Former SIGINT analyst (35N) for the US Army.
  • Jim1130
    Jim1130 Posts: 13 ✭
    Air force weapons troop f 16. Son is going into the national guard.. Thanks to all who paid the ultimate price for our freedom...
  • slickric
    slickric Posts: 705
    ex Army here (5 years). now i am in afghanistan with them as a civi contractor
  • airborneolly
    airborneolly Posts: 24
    Airborne Infantry right now, but come november its back home to oklahoma. I have about 20 jumps, mostly C-17, but i also have a black hawk, and a sherpa tail gate jump.

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