How many military bubbas here?

[BonnieT100]

Somehow I missed this thread. Grew up an AF brat - Chanute AFB, IL, Scott AFB,IL, RAF Upper Heyford/RAF Croughton, Oxfordshire, UK, Hurlbert Field, FL. Been Army for the past 6 years - IN Nat Grd as a Cav Scout, AD as an Infantryman and now I'm a Signal Corp officer, which is such a totally different world than running around shooting people.
2/502nd IN, 101st Airborne (Air Assault) 02 to 06
1 BSTB, 82nd Airborne 06 to present

All The Way!

[beloitpiper]

I've had family members in some sort of military (U.S. and back on the isles).

I've also had family members in paramilitary organizations (only in Ireland and Scotland)

[Frog]

Tried to enlist 'bout 26 years ago - permanently disqualified from military service due to physical handicap (hearing impairment) -P4.

Frog

[Erisianmonkey]

Tried to enlist 'bout 26 years ago - permanently disqualified from military service due to physical handicap (hearing impairment) -P4.

Frog

I tried to enlist myself. They told me my asthma was a permanent disqualifier. I still think they could have made me a desk jockey or something, freeing up fitter men for other duty, but oh well, must be followed.

[wsk]

Navy, 76-82, ftb2/ss, USS Will Rogers SSBN659 (Blue) last boat to refit at the Holy Loch.

[Pour1Malt]

ai'm a lover... no a fichter

[Fearnest]

Put a little over 20 years in as an Airborne, Air Assault, Armored Cavalryman before my body decided it wanted to stop playing. Started out in (the then) Federal Republic of Germany sitting on the Inter-German Border in 1980 and ended up "pushing troops" at a Basic Combat Training Brigade in 2000.

My thanks to all of you who have served - in any military service of any nation.

[thescot]

Maternal grandfather was a doughboy in WW I; had some tales to tell. My father was in the Seabees at Okinawa, and he carried a piece of sharpnel home that was removed from just behind his ear (didn't know it was there) in 1999 just before he died. I spent time as an MP, a tanker (hated that), and finally a platoon sergeant in a rifle company with the USMC.

And my dad had two cousins in the OSS during WW II, mostly behind enemy lines.

[Fearnest]

I spent time as... a tanker (hated that)...

Ah, but launching that main gun round down range is almost the most fun you can have with both feet on the floor and fatigues (or nomex) on!

[Cawdorian]

That may have a lot to do with being in the tank, being on the ground behind the tank is no fun. But on second thought I'd rather be behind the tank than in front of it.