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BCF Military Service Poll?

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Out of 10,000 members there have to be more than 33 of us who've served in the military of our homeland!
 
Yea the numbers seem pretty low to me too. Come on folks?
 
I did vote, Honest! Army, M.O.S. 67 A 10 UH-1 crewchief.
 
anthony7777 said:
paul161, my dad was in the merchant marines at the age of 15, when the u.s. got into the war full time he forged even more documents and got into the navy, serving on the destroyer "bordelon" he always told my two brothers and i some great stories, the "bordelon" was in service till i believe 1960 or 61 when unfortunately it was struck by a u.s. aircraft carrier and sold to iran as scrap. yup all those guys had some huge cohones,
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It would be nice if we could enter our Merchant Marine dads in the poll. It was one of the few services abandoned right after the war and there are very few of those brave men left. I'm not sure if woman served in the Merchant Marines during that time, but if they did, we thank them too!
 
Invited for what, you are one of us for sure. Welcome.
 
Due to quirks of fate, geography, etc. I never did get to serve in the military, though in my family my grandfather served in both World Wars (a POW in WW II from 1939-1944-captured in Greece!), my father and uncle served through WW II (all three served in the British Army)and upon retirement from the army (1951) my father was a "lifer" in U.S. service well into the mid '80s!! (F.B.I.S. - Hence the earlier "spook" question!). My younger brother was a lifer in the U.S.A.F. and I have contributed two sons to the military, one, a Marine (on his second tour of duty), and the other an Airman on his first! As a baby, while my father was still in the British army, my transport was bouncing around in Jeeps and Bedford trucks. I was certainly raised in the military tradition without ever having actually been in and hold the greatest respect for those who have!!
 
70herald said:
Israeli Army (Civilian) Rescue we have authority over everything from civilian disasters (large scale) such as collapse of a large building, earthquakes, to rescuing civilians in the case of war conventional and non-conventional. If the army needs me, someone has had a real bad day. My unit has visited Turkey twice Armenia, Greece (earthquakes), Kenya (massive terrorist bombing which leveled several building)and a few others. I haven't been invited yet, and I am not really disappointed.
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Well let's hope that they don't have to invite you, but that doesn't look likely, unfortunately.

I am greatly impressed that you are involved in search and rescue, it's highly specialised and very dangerous.
 
I guess I'm the other one - where is everybody? Seems we're up to four?
 
I did, I was one of the first one to cast a vote -USMC
 
I feel a little guilty voting, I spent 6 1/2 years in the National Guard. Not in the line of fire like you guys, but I served just the same.
 
National Guard is military service - & just as honorable as those of us who served on active duty...heck, in today's world, there are as many National Guardsmen in harm's way as there are active duty!

Don't feel guilty -
 
I had two ANG F-100 squadrons with me for a portion of my first stint in Viet Nam. They fought like the rest of us.
There were two other Air National Guard units in country at the time.
Jeff
 
I can't believe that there are only four Jarheads out there. Hopefully the rest of us will chime in.

Now drop and give me 20!

I think this poll should get a sticky, but that is just me.
 
PAUL161 said:
I'm glad you included the Merchant Marines. Too often they are not mentioned when we speak of the armed services. Imagine this, you are on a ship in the north Atlantic, loaded with bombs, small arms ammo, and a half million gallons of aviation fuel. The north Atlantic is loaded with German submarines. At any time a German torpedo could hit your ship and it would almost vaporize. Talk about a stress factor! Also those ships carried life saving supplies to England to help them survive the terror they were encountering. My Dad was a Merchant Marine and somehow, thank God, he survived. They deserve a heck of a lot more credit than they get. As I've been told, their held in the highest esteem in England. My Dad is 92 years old and still healthy. To this day he never talked about the war.
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My dad's first duty in the Navy in 1942 was as an armed guard on Merchant Marine convoys to Murmansk, Russia. He had a .45 and a M-1 carbine to use against the German subs. Later they fitted the ships with 5" guns but didn't have enough gun barrels so they mounted telephone poles to the gun carriages and the guards were instructed to point the telephone poles at the subs and hope for the best!
 
12 years USAR Maintenance Platoon Sgt and later one of your friendly DI's. Also 6 years DOAC as a weapons repairer covering northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

Had some good times on two USAR rifle teams and on the winning team for the 5th Army Combat Rifle match at Fort Riley in '72. The first trophy given by 5th Army for M16 competition. Also on the winning team at the Texas State Championship in '72, again with our M16's and this time competing against .30 cal. rifles. So I might have run into some of you guys.

Had planned to stay in but diabetes and the effects had other plans.
 
I have almost 20 years in the Army on both activity duty (8 years) and National Guard. I am one of those dreaded officers and to make it even worse, I am CAVALRY and woudl trade it for nothing (a set of those wildwood brakes might be tempt me though) I was on activity duty tank platoon leader with the 197th INF BDE from FT Benning and went to the Persian Gulf War. I just return last year from 18 month in Iraq with my National Guard unit as a Cavalry Troop Operations Officer, Next to raising my children, there has been nothing so rewarding as my time in the Army. Good Bless all Soldiers ( no matter the branch, rank or time when served) and include soldiers and their families currently deployed in your prayers
 
Air force here. Served in Viet Nam '67-'68 as a loadmaster on a C123k. We worked a lot with the special forces out of Nha Trang. I flew out of Da Nang during the Tet offenseive. We supplied Khe San and other northern outposts. I guess they needed some stuff.

The experience gave me a great respect for the guys on the ground. Thanks guys.

Pete
 
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USAF, '70~'74. Flew all-sorts; 16th SOS Specter, "baggage" backseat F-4's, Jolly Green SAR... even lived in the "woods" with Green Beret fellas for a bit. Wouldn't trade it for the planet, wouldn't do it again in a million years either! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif


...wellll, mebbe just one more ride in a 'modern' fighter aircraft. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
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