27-04-2003 01:56									#1
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I served in the U.S. Army from 93 to 96 and the National Guard from 97 to 99.

In the Army, I was a Combat Engineer and after basic training did my time at Fort Hood in the 8th Engineer Battalion (currently in Iraq). I was in Alpha and Charlie companies, then spent my last year working in Battalion operations. I did 3 National Training Center training rotations and was deployed for 3 months on Operation Safe Haven/Safe Passage. I was supposed to go to Sapper School but our unit's slot got cancelled due to Safe Haven. I never got above specialist as I didn't want to re-enlist.

After my discharge, I went into the Missouri National Guard and did a few years as an MP in the 1137th Military Police Company, where we did approximately nothing. I hated my whole time there.

Any other military vets out there, from any branches/countries?

	27-04-2003 01:58									#2
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Nope. I was in the Boys Brigade for a few years though so I can do military drill

	27-04-2003 02:24									#3
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not YET. But I will probably serve for maintenance in the IDF, ending up a 1st Leutenant.

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Maintenance? Is this the place where they stick Chemistry graduates to?

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I have done research whether I should join the Spanish Legion in the past.. but decided not to. I also looked at the Spanish Army. But decided I am going to go to the US and study in university.

http://www.ejercito.mde.es - nice video on the mainpage there I recommend watching...

	27-04-2003 02:31									#6
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74-78 United States Air Force.
Most of which at Travis AFB, California.
Evacuation of Saigon, Tan Sun Nhut.
Close of base in Thailand, Udorn.

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Eli, as you know "Maintenance" is a vague term describing fuel supplies, and depots, etc.

I hope I'll get to MI, but that might be wishful thinking.

	27-04-2003 02:38									#8
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US Army 77-79..(95B10)Military Police & (63C10)Trk.Vehicle Mech..

Ft.McClellan Al.
Ft.McPherson Ga.
Ft.Knox Ky.
Crailsheim W.Germany
Ft.Dix NJ

Peace

Grandpa Troll

	27-04-2003 02:42									#9
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I refused the draft and did my civil service in an organisation helping draft refuseniks from Jugoslavia/Serbia during the Serbian/Bosniac war.

Does that count

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To me it does.

	27-04-2003 03:08									#11
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It's a secret!

Ok.... Animal Manipulation and Deception Unit, aka AMDU.

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	27-04-2003 03:09									#12
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U.S. Army, stationed at the following places:

Ft. Bliss, TX ('83 - '88), worked as a technician on the HAWK Air Defense Missile System
Ft. Gordon, Ga ('88 - '89) training as a Crypto Tech
Taegu, South Korea ('89 - '90) Crypto Tech and courier

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quote: Originally posted by Azazel Eli, as you know "Maintenance" is a vague term describing fuel supplies, and depots, etc. I hope I'll get to MI, but that might be wishful thinking.

hi ,

and where would MI be without maintenance , .... , imagine having no paper , no pens , etc , .....

have a nice day


Az in maintenance , .... there is something odd about it , ....

	27-04-2003 11:23									#14
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U.S. Navy from 1991 to 1999. I was a machinist mate. I worked in propulsion plants. basically I made the ship go through the water.

My first two years of my service was all schools essentually. I did my boot camp In Orlando Florida. I went over there in August. Hot as hell, but you eventually get used to the humidity. I also did my "A" school there.

I also did some training on the weapons station in Charleston, SC. Then I went to Nofolk, VA (actually I went to Newport News- my ship was in a serious overhaul). Or sometimes called No****, Virginia. There are too many men, and not enough women. I was stationed on the USS Enterprise from 1993 to 1997. And the USS Guam from 1997 to 1998 when it was decomissioned. I heard just recently that ship was sunk off the coast of North Carolina in a weapons testing exercise.

I then finished up my service at the Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) in Pascagoula, MS. I was tired of Virginia, and I figured any place was better than that. MS was poor, but I did like it better than Norfolk. That is also when I started posting at Apolyton back in 1999 after SMAC came out.

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so true, panag.

	27-04-2003 11:29									#16
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West Germany in the mid-1970s. ... OK, OK, I was only a military brat, and a young one at that. My late father served in some function or another in the U.S. Army in Berlin (and elsewhere in WG). I don't remember much from that time, but my mother's got stories up the ying-yang.

Gatekeeper

	27-04-2003 11:35									#17
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2d ACR on the border of West/East Germany late 70's.

	27-04-2003 11:51									#18
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Thanks for risking your lives for us, guys

	27-04-2003 15:29									#20
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Wisconsin National Guard 92-Present
Alpha 132nd SPT 32Bn The "Red Arrow" (and yes, I'm in the Maintance section )

	27-04-2003 17:36									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer 2d ACR on the border of West/East Germany late 70's.

I was in Crailsheim, 40 clicks from Ansbach..same time period roughly....maybe we did a Reforger or Saxon Drive together...perhaps....



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	27-04-2003 17:45									#22
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a total of around 500 days in the Swiss army - a little more than 100 days to go over the years until im 36 - I'm a lieutenant, regular compulsory serving time is 260 days until 32 (provided a vote in half a month gets approved, now it's still a little more and longer)

	27-04-2003 17:46									#23
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Close of base in Thailand, Udorn.

The working girls up there are still in mourning.

1981 - 87 Army Reserve, commissioned on Australia Day 1986.

Currently stand-by Reserve Officer, which means called up only for really big wars, not pissy little ones like Iraq.

Korea could do it

	27-04-2003 17:48									#24
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quote: 40 clicks from Ansbach

I hear this term on movies all the time and have never quite understood it. How far is a "click"?

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kilometre you ninny

	28-04-2003 03:31									#27
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I will probably serve in MI (got accepted)

But if they decide to leave me for some reason I will try to get my service postponed and study Software Engineering.

Then I can get anywhere from MI, to Air Force, to Navy, to Communications and Computing Core to whatever.