Any Military Members?

[chgolatin2]

Well, I am a former Air Force MP active duty for 6 yrs and then I wanted to have more fun and get more in the dirty work so I join the Army 82 Airborne Div where I got ALL the fun that I ever wanted in Iraq/Afghanistan and Russia and other parts of the word.

One thing that I know for sure is that the Air Force has it MADE! To bad I dont like to look pretty and clean, lol. Now I am a reservist and ex State Police officer and now a current Chicago Firefighter I've done a bit of everything and I still have a few more to do....

Cheers!

[joosrsx]

Originally Posted by unklekraker

hey, joosrsx..for your viewing pleasure and when you get a chance- look at the thread below and there you'll see most of our faces and ocupation



Face and Car thread
http://www.986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8468

Occupation thread
http://986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=550

I looked through the Occupation thread before I made this thread and I would have never thought that a bunch of Porsche owners would be IT or MBA guys

I'll add my car's pics to the other thread to mess with people

Originally Posted by chgolatin2

Well, I am a former Air Force MP active duty for 6 yrs and then I wanted to have more fun and get more in the dirty work so I join the Army 82 Airborne Div where I got ALL the fun that I ever wanted in Iraq/Afghanistan and Russia and other parts of the word.

One thing that I know for sure is that the Air Force has it MADE! To bad I dont like to look pretty and clean, lol. Now I am a reservist and ex State Police officer and now a current Chicago Firefighter I've done a bit of everything and I still have a few more to do....

Cheers!

That's one hell of a resume. Talk about putting others before yourself

[Trakehner]

USMC... 21 years service, 16.5 years commissioned service.
0402/0303/0331.

Lawyers have all the fun at the big suck... but at least you'll be getting paid more for the pleasure!

Z

[dmcutter]

Hey Mantis-
when I went through the Basic School back in '82 we had a liar, er, lawyer in my platoon. He didn't catch any more **************** than anyone else. Smatter o' fact, if I recall correctly he was a 1Lt, so maybe he had it easier.

[Rodger]

I've got to be the lowest-ranking guy here, at E-5, in the USAF. I find out in June if I made E-6. Also, this is my second Boxster, I got my first when I was an E-4! Of course, I've only had them one at a time. I go through cars pertty quickly. The gate guards always give me a second look to make sure I am who I say.

I'm currently stationed at Elmendorf AFB, AK, as an F-15 Flightline Avionics Craftsman (2A371). I'll be back in the lower-48 before the end of the year. I've been deployed to Kuwait in 2002 and Qatar in 2004.

I've been in since 2000 and was previously stationed in Mt. Home, ID.

[johne4]

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"What is/was everyone's job?"

210A, Utilities Operations and Maintenance Technician

We operate and maintain the Army's utility systems, which includes Power Plants, Water Treatment Plants, Waste Water Plants, Steam Plants, Chiller Plants and all the supporting distribution infrastructure.

[Chills]

Army - 8 years. I enlisted in '96 as a 25M, Multimedia Illustrator (computer graphics). Didn't like that and reclassed to 19K, M1A1 Abrams crewman. Did that for awhile then reclassed to 93C, Air Traffic Controller. Loved that and stayed for awhile. Was accepted and attended Warrant Officer Flight Training. Had to resign after a few weeks, wife got very very sick and I needed to take care of her. Finished my time as an air traffic controller at Ft Rucker and got out in '03. Did a year in the Reserves (hated it), got out and grew a beard.

Didn't have a Boxster, but I did have a couple of motorcycles.

[joosrsx]

Originally Posted by Schnell!

I've got to be the lowest-ranking guy here, at E-5, in the USAF. I find out in June if I made E-6. Also, this is my second Boxster, I got my first when I was an E-4! Of course, I've only had them one at a time. I go through cars pertty quickly. The gate guards always give me a second look to make sure I am who I say.

No **************** an Airman with a Porsche. That's prob in chapter 1 of SF tech school, "If you see an Airman in a Porsche check that guy cause it's either not him or he's selling drugs."

[unklekraker]

someone say the "s" word..na na na na na na (while pointing @ joos) j/k

[Mantis]

Originally Posted by dmcutter

Hey Mantis-
when I went through the Basic School back in '82 we had a liar, er, lawyer in my platoon. He didn't catch any more **************** than anyone else. Smatter o' fact, if I recall correctly he was a 1Lt, so maybe he had it easier.

Wow, 82? I finished TBS in June 81. Best thing about that stretch of time was cavorting to DC on the weekends during the early Reagan years.

[Chills]

That was a great story, Jim. Thanks for posting it.

I was Army Aviation and not a day went by that I didn't say, "I should have joined the Air Force." lol Especially when it was my turn to pull watch and sit in a fox hole after a 16 hour shift of controlling air traffic.

[dmcutter]

Damn, I hate reading these flyboy stories. My biggest regret in life is not having gone to flight school. Of course, I'm sure I'd be dead by now. When I was at Twentynine Palms back in about '83, I was driving around in the desert with a major from Range Control looking for things my platoon could blow up. A CH-53 had crashed at MCAS Yuma the week before and he told me that he had gone to flight school with the guy who had been flying the 53. He said that only he and 2 other guys from his flight school class were still alive, and that was post Viet Nam...all peace time attrition. I'm amazed anyone actually made it through a war alive. My hat is off to you and all your ilk, Jim.

[trube78]

Submariner currently CO at VT NROTC. Think I'll hang around and make it a career.