Military Members

Did a search and couldn't find a thread started. If there is sorry for the repost. Decided to start one for Everyone that wants to post up when and where they have served. God Bless and Thanks for your service.

Marine Corp Reserve- 0811 1993-99
National Guard 11B 1999-2011
National Guard 91B 2011-Present
Iraq FOB Iskandryia 2004-2005
Iraq FOB Balad 2009-2010

U.S. Army 2005- Still serving- Medic

Iraq-been there
Afghanistan-been there

U.S. Army 1996-2006
La National Guard 2006-2010

19 Delta CAV Scout
Long Range Weapons Specialist
Small Arms Master Gunner

Iraq- September 2004 - October 2005

If anyone is wondering why I did 14 years and then got out, I will explain. One way the military will ROYALLY **** YOU is if you have injuries from a prior deployment and you are now apart of a reserve unit that is called up to deploy then you must have enough time on your contract to fulfill the time requirement. Not sure if you all remember the term "stop loss", this is where if you had even 1 day left on your contract then you could be subject to serve no matter what. They did away with that, however to sign an extension so that you have the required time for deployment. HERE IS WHERE THE ****ING BEGINS. In order to sign the extension, you must first sign a release of liability of any prior injuries. GET THE PICTURE

1999-2007 Indiana Army National Guard
2007-Present Florida Army National Guard
91B20H8 Currently, but I am working on my warrant officer packet.

2011-2012 Deployed to Camp Buehring, Kuwait I was in an aviation unit.

I also work full time for FL NG, as a mechanic, been doing that since 2007 as well.

Brian

wgamble said:

U.S. Army 1996-2006
La National Guard 2006-2010

19 Delta CAV Scout
Long Range Weapons Specialist
Small Arms Master Gunner

Iraq- September 2004 - October 2005

If anyone is wondering why I did 14 years and then got out, I will explain. One way the military will ROYALLY **** YOU is if you have injuries from a prior deployment and you are now apart of a reserve unit that is called up to deploy then you must have enough time on your contract to fulfill the time requirement. Not sure if you all remember the term "stop loss", this is where if you had even 1 day left on your contract then you could be subject to serve no matter what. They did away with that, however to sign an extension so that you have the required time for deployment. HERE IS WHERE THE ****ING BEGINS. In order to sign the extension, you must first sign a release of liability of any prior injuries. GET THE PICTURE

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Yea I heard about that one. My wife was caught up in that stop loss before her last deployment.

That is why I strongly urge every prior/current military member to go and get every little thing documented. It may not be too much of an issue today but when you get older, I assure you that you will be glad you did.

My cousin was stop lossed a couple years ago and sent to Afghanistan, and my brother just got back from Afghanistan a few months ago and he said they've been telling them that there's a chance he might get sent to Iraq before his contract is up in less than 8 months.

TN NG 2003 TO PRESENT IRAQ 2005-2006 AT RAMADI, IRAQ 2008-2009 TAJI

US Army '00-'03, 13F Fire Support Specialist (foward observer)

Ft Sill, Heidberg Germany, Kuwait and Iraq '02-'03.

Re:

USMC reserves 2531/0631 Radio Operator

December 12, 1999-August 11, 2007
AL Asad, TQ, Fallujah - 2003-04
Contract work 2008-09

Saw enough to know I was not interested in going the career path. Contract work was worse. Been closer to death than I care to admit and in the end began not to feel or care about the danger. That's when I knew it was time to stop.

Eric Hagan......I mean Kel Lawrence

Ala. National guard 2000-2008
31w m.o.s. deployed to Iraq 2003-2004

US Navy 2000-present

Happy New year's to everyone. Hope yall have a great 2015..

Thanks for your service everyone. Im not in the military but my brother in law is a SFC in the army. Not sure what he does exactly but I think its something to do with communications. Right now he is station in Naples, Italy.

U.S.M.C
MOS 0811 (field artillery cannoner)
2001-2004
Iraq initial invasion 2003
was attatched to British Royal Marines during invasion than back to the 15th MEU


what park most of you attend for a veterans day ride?

Super Lift in Hot Springs

It is cool to see this thread. I have an enormous amount of respect for all men and women who serve in our Military. I am going to give a shout out to my old man. He is a Marine (not was, never say someone WAS a marine it will piss them off) and was in Vietnam during the Tet offensive in 1968. We bought him a Time Life book a few years ago for Christmas; it was tons of photos sorted by year. We looked at the years he was there, and found a picture that looked like him. When he looked at it, he said he wasn't sure that was him, but he was 100% positive the black dude on the right was his best friend because "for 13 months they never left each others side." That being said we looked at the picture again and it was actually my dad. I cant tell you how cool that is to look through thousands of random published pictures and find your old man. He is the one in the front and the color picture is him on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This is also a testament to the fact that under the right circumstances race does not matter! (dad is not exactly the picture of racial tolerance)

money_pit_yj said:

It is cool to see this thread. I have an enormous amount of respect for all men and women who serve in our Military. I am going to give a shout out to my old man. He is a Marine (not was, never say someone WAS a marine it will pissatheist) and was in Vietnam during the Tet offensive in 1968. We bought him a Time Life book a few years ago for Christmas; it was tons of photos sorted by year. We looked at the years he was there, and found a picture that looked like him. When he looked at it, he said he wasn't sure that was him, but he was 100% positive the black dude on the right was his best friend because "for 13 months they never left each others side." That being said we looked at the picture again and it was actually my dad. I cant tell you how cool that is to look through thousands of random published pictures and find your old man. He is the one in the front and the color picture is him on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This is also a testament to the fact that under the right circumstances race does not matter! (dad is not exactly the picture of racial tolerance)

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That is AWESOME. . SEMPER FI. I have made 2 deployments as an Infantryman to Iraq. It was not easy deployments but I have all the respect in the world for our Vietnam veterans for the hell they went trough there and after they returned home. Also race is never an issue when bullets are flying and never seen an atheists at that time either.

US NAVY
ABH3
USS Guam 86-89

US Army 2000-2004
19D Cav Scout