Military. Who is serving or has served?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Dave

Like ebbs and vagina

lolz

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by derf

The only enlisted MOS they are recruiting for currently is laundry and some other BS job, also most warrant jobs are full too. Not sure about Officer MOS, but I know that some of the more technical MOS are no activley recruiting either.

Sorry, refering to Guard. But yeah, they are definatly pretty full up on the enlisted side.

[tallywacker]

Warrant officers work their asses off in networking.

[ericr]

Originally Posted by wildchild

so what you're telling us here is that not even your command structure trusts you guys with guns. LOL

I had a buddy who as AF on Fort Bragg. (They were flight control for choppers, not sure why they didn't house them on Pope Air Base). their barracks were like a hotel compared to ours. we did most of our partying there.

No it wasn't that they didn't trust us, it was more "we want to be lazy and let the unit you're assigned to issue one when you get there" kinda deal. I could have gotten one issued at the unit armory but we were there before the shooting really started so I didn't really worry about it when the whole unit was out on a field exercise. I later had to do a night op with some of the radio guys in case they had a computer issue, there were only 10 of us and we ended up 7 miles from the Iraqi border, I wanted an M-4 then! We could see the flares and oil towers across the border from where we were that night.

Air Force usually has pretty good billeting for their people, we're spoiled

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by racedoll

All you Air Force people, what do you know about Operations Intelligence?

1N0? I'll PM you.

[No Worries]

Drafted into the Army from 1969-71. On the "wish list", I put down Military Police. I figured if I got that I could serve anywhere (not Vietnam). I got Armor Crewman (11E) and learned to drive a tank at Fort Knox.

In Vietnam, I was assigned to mechanized infantry and drove an armored personnel carrier (APC) with a flame thrower. Hot stuff. Do soldiers still name their vehicles? Mine was called "We Bring You Hell Fire". That's from the one-hit wonder in 1968 by "The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown". The lead APC was "Aardvark" and we had "Zippo", "Mud, Sweat, and Gears" and others. We were right by the Sea and had off every fourth Sunday with a party on the beach. It would have been great if we didn't have mortars coming into our base every night.

The draft got a lot of fit and misfits into service. I guess I was in the middle. But they offered me $10K to stay in the service, a lot of money at the time, but I wanted to be a scientist and went to college under the GI Bill. I've never seen a movie about the experiences I lived through, so I started writing a screenplay last year. I hope to finish it this year. Good luck to all those serving.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by No Worries

Drafted into the Army from 1969-71. On the "wish list", I put down Military Police. I figured if I got that I could serve anywhere (not Vietnam). I got Armor Crewman (11E) and learned to drive a tank at Fort Knox.

In Vietnam, I was assigned to mechanized infantry and drove an armored personnel carrier (APC) with a flame thrower. Hot stuff. Do soldiers still name their vehicles? Mine was called "We Bring You Hell Fire". That's from the one-hit wonder in 1968 by "The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown". The lead APC was "Aardvark" and we had "Zippo", "Mud, Sweat, and Gears" and others. We were right by the Sea and had off every fourth Sunday with a party on the beach. It would have been great if we didn't have mortars coming into our base every night.

The draft got a lot of fit and misfits into service. I guess I was in the middle. But they offered me $10K to stay in the service, a lot of money at the time, but I wanted to be a scientist and went to college under the GI Bill. I've never seen a movie about the experiences I lived through, so I started writing a screenplay last year. I hope to finish it this year. Good luck to all those serving.

tanks still get names, ive served on creeping death, hellraiser, honor and courage, and arrogant assholes (unofficial as they wouldnt let us paint it on the gun tube )

[racedoll]

Originally Posted by Mikey

1N0? I'll PM you.

Thank you.

[Mr Lefty]

intel? they're all geeks LOL better get to playing WOW

[wildchild]

Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO

Who is the lackluster-JM-drop DZ commander who doesn't notice a jeep parking in his zone? Or if he noticed, he didn't wave off the drop? Fail.

well duh, the Jeep was camoflage. LOL

seriously it was a night drop, and lights out driving the Jeep, so no lights anywhere. no one else apparently was near enough to see the vehicle because of darkness.
outcome could have been much different but as it turned out we had a good laugh about it.