Thanks for your service "Chief", and welcome aboard...
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Thanks for your service "Chief", and welcome aboard...
::: NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor, Military Veteran, Public Safety Professional :::
USMC 68-71
E-5
MOS - 0311/3516
Nuff said.
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
USMC
1978-84
Helo Crew Chief - CH53
P.I.
Millington NAS
Yuma MCAS
Dallas NAS
Semper Fi ~
Eagle Scout 1975
U.S.M.C. 1978-84
Commercial Pilot
Texas CHL Instructor
Certified Flight Instructor
NRA Certified Instructor
NRA Life Member
TSRA Member
www.TexasArmament.com
USMC
1998-2003
Gound Radio Repairman
1st Light Armored Recon Bn. Co A
15th MEU Battalion landing Team 2/1
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US ARMY 1971 to 1974 Military police Viet Nam , Germany. & Ft knox KY
Wichita, eh? Lived there 12 years. Loved those B-1B's and KC-135's on takeoff and landing! What a sight!Originally Posted by sjones
Thanks to all of you for your service to our country!
NRA Life Member
"But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?"
"You may think I'm pompous, but actually I'm pedantic... let me explain the difference."
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
Not too many things that are more beautiful than a slick screamin' in to a hot LZ , M-60 fire ripping up the jungle, takin' multiple hits to get my sorry A** out!Originally Posted by one eyed fatman
Man I love you guys!![]()
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
I know the feeling, for me it was watching 3 Cobra gunships taking out an Iraqi armor column, and realizing it was my radios that made it happenI LOVE AIR SUPPORT
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U.S Army 1985-93
E-6 at time of Honorable Discharge.
95B (Military Police)
Operation Just Cause (Panama)
Operation Desert Shield/Storm (Saudia Arabia/Iraq) Awarded Silver Star
Operation Promote Freedom? (Kuwait)
Operation Provide Comfort (USVI)
Those are just the ones I can remember with out thinking too much.
MikeV
US Navy 74-85. Was in on operation frequent wind in 75.
US Navy Corpsman 4 years active duty, (73 - 77) and seven years reserve. Spent most of my active duty time with Marines at Camp LeJeune and my reserve time with CB-23.
USMC 1998-2003...still waiting for inactive reserve to finish!....SGT of Marines...best rank in the Corps if you ask me =o)
3yrs 29 Stumps MCCES....Switchboard Maint Instructor
1yr Okinawa 7th Comm Bn
couldnt get away from the heat! went from hot and dry to hot an humid. Typhoons were a blast in oki though.....3 of them right over the island =O)
United States Marine 1972 until 1982.
Gunnery Sergeant E-7
Parris Island, SC
Camp Lejuene, NC
Camp SD Butler, Okinawa
2 Med Cruises
US Marine Barracks Bierut Lebanon
Just collecting disability wishing I were back
Speed is fine
Accuracy is final
I was a Navy Machinist Mate specializing in Nuclear Propulsion and Radiological Controls while on active duty. Did most of my time on nuclear Aircraft Carriers; USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), but spent some time on some frigates and destroyers before I entered nuclear training. Got out as Chief Petty Officer.
I was attached to NMCB-5 (Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE) in Saudi while in the reserves during Desert Storm.
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone
The second amendment is the reset button of our Constitution.
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman
1968-1982 - Six active duty, and the rest active reserve.
Boot camp at Great Lakes, IL (In January no less!)![]()
U.S.S. Shangri-La CV-38
Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, IL (It was cold then too if I remember correctly)
Bethesda National Naval Medical Center
U.S.S. F.D. Roosevelt CV-42
Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit, Forest Park, IL (Reserve Duty)
Discharged as E-6