Which branch of the Military if any are/were you in?

[airbornerangerboogie]

grunt, dogface, GI-Joe, ground-pounder, and all around nice guy.

SSG Gayle (ETS'd in 77)

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[Manzanita]

Navy Corpsman 1980-1988

First enlistment sea duty spent with the USMC (1st Tank Bn, 1st MarDiv). Looking back, those were the best years I spent in the military right there.

Second enlistment was all shore duty... or s'posed to be. Found myself on a rapid deployment surgical team. We deployed. Floated around on the dang USS Saipan for a while... long enough to sour me. When that enlistment was up I took my ball and went home.

[walvord]

Army '75-'80 - 4 yrs, 5 mths, 25 days. Primary MOS 72G10 Autodin Switching Center Operator, secondary MOS 31S10 Field General Comsec Repair. Basic training at Fort Jackson, SC., AIT at Fort Gordon, GA., and permanent party at Cambrai Fritsch Kaserne - Darmstadt, Germany TADS Detachment 440th Signal Battalion 7th Signal Brigade.

[Nate]

But that barracks crap was 1,000 % for the birds, and I just underestimated how much of that there would be. Gawd, all that C.O.D. (no one has marched into battle like that in many years, primarily because it's a very efficient way to get killed), being told when to eat and where to sit and how you can't pee in this latrine (it's only for officers/staff NCO's, etc.), and your boots aren't shiny and you have loose threads hanging off of the INSIDE seams of your clothes and etc. & etc. & etc. ad nauseam.

I hear ya on that. Part of me understood the way they thought (instill discipline, etc.), but I still can't shake the fact that some of that crap was just practically POINTLESS. LOL - you weren't stationed at Marine Barracks Washington, were you? That kind of stuff is taken to the EXTREME, and I unfortunately spent two of my four years there.

Either way, I wouldn't have traded a single moment of my Marine Corps career for the world, and I'm ultimately a better man for it.

[mech1369dlw]

United States Army 1975-1995 20 years 29 days.

[INTJ]

Retired Army.

Army has USMC beat almost 3 to 1 membership yet loses 'bout the same ratio in postings? Wassup???????????

[falkon]

An Ex-Coastie here...

ret

So far you are the only one.

Army Medic here.

[mark555]

26 Years in the Air Force

[Nate]

Retired Army.

Army has USMC beat almost 3 to 1 membership yet loses 'bout the same ratio in postings? Wassup???????????

We accomplish more with less, and have been doing it for over 231 years now.

[MR D]

I did 8+ in the Army
My wife did 4 AF and 5 USAFR

[pappy]

An Ex-Coastie here...

ret

I thought I was alone.

[PatrioticRick]

Navy & Air Force

[gimpy]

Air Force 1961-1981.

[Chorizo]

Army has USMC beat almost 3 to 1 membership yet loses 'bout the same ratio in postings? Wassup???????????

Come now, have you ever met a Marine without an opinion or without something to say about anything?

I have a bumper sticker that says "Retired Opinionated Marine"

My wife says it is redundant.

[jmiked]

Army, Computer Geek for MI for 22 years. They just did not tell me all the weird places those computers were going to be!