akbeemer
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Isn't that a boat?
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So You Served!!
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Isn't that a boat?
Roy.Jackson55@aol.com
You stupid, fix it!
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Reisesport77
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Army Redleg!
U.S. Army, 31 years total, Active and Reserve
Drafted August 1969, E-1 to E-5
Commissioned Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, OK
Various CONUS assignments
Korea, El Salvador, Honduras
3/15th FA Battalion Commander
Deputy Chief of Staff, 81st RSC
3rd Brigade, 100th Division Commander
JTF 926, Honduras, Task Force Commander
87th Division, Chief of Staff
Proud to serve and proud of my brothers and sisters in arms that are BMW MOA members! Thank you for defending our freedoms!
U.S. Army, 31 years total, Active and Reserve
Drafted August 1969, E-1 to E-5
Commissioned Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, OK
Various CONUS assignments
Korea, El Salvador, Honduras
3/15th FA Battalion Commander
Deputy Chief of Staff, 81st RSC
3rd Brigade, 100th Division Commander
JTF 926, Honduras, Task Force Commander
87th Division, Chief of Staff
Proud to serve and proud of my brothers and sisters in arms that are BMW MOA members! Thank you for defending our freedoms!
grafikfeat
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No I ment ship., see me up on th 0-9 level steering.
You were on the USS Albany? CG-12?
Ooops... I meant the Columbus... Albany was CG-10...
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Roy.Jackson55@aol.com
You stupid, fix it!
The Albany was the CG-10, My father-in-law served aboard her in the late 60's. That covers the 3 CG's
grafikfeat
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thx1158
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US Marines - retired in 97 with 21 years of service.
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BCBOSD
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USAF Active Duty...what a great read and kudos to all the "old" guys.
ICBM's
Satellite Ops (flying GPS...and yes we fly 'em...3-axis stabilized)
Ops Planner (Europe)
Pentagon Desk Jockey
Respectfully,
BB
ICBM's
Satellite Ops (flying GPS...and yes we fly 'em...3-axis stabilized)
Ops Planner (Europe)
Pentagon Desk Jockey
Respectfully,
BB
akbeemer
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FRAZZ
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Service
Army - 1968 - 1970
Military Police
Denver PD - 2yrs
DOD Police - 2yrs
Border Patrol - 5yrs
DOJ - 15yrs
DHS - 3yrs
Army - 1968 - 1970
Military Police
Denver PD - 2yrs
DOD Police - 2yrs
Border Patrol - 5yrs
DOJ - 15yrs
DHS - 3yrs
lazywizard02
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Wasn't the Columbus 6th Fleet? I wrangled #6 line on the pier to tie her up in Barcelona September/Oct '73. Med style, stern in.
CG-12 I am pretty sure. Big pretty 'Boat' for a DE'r like me.
hoffmanswen
Has two wheels and flies
Dive, Dive
Here's one for a small audience.
How to Live the Submarine Life at Home:
Obtain a dumpster. Paint it black, weld all the covers shut except one which can be bolted closed from the inside. Hitch it to the back of your wife's mini van. Gather 12 friends and bolt yourselves inside and let your wife pull it around for several weeks while she does the errands.
Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain. shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".
Don't eat any food that you don't get out of a can or have to add water to.
Paint all the windows on your car black. Drive around town at high speeds with your wife standing up in the sunroof shouting course and speed directions to you.
Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping.
Repeat back everything anyone says to you.
Sit in your car for six hours a day with your hands on the wheel and the motor running, but don't go anywhere.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".
Don't watch T.V. except movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one. Record The Sound of Music and show it at least every other night.
Don't do your wash at home. Gather your neighbors clothes along with yours, pick the most crowded laundromat you can find, and do the neighborhood laundry in a single washer and dryer. Make sure that 12% of the laundry is lost and 20% of the finished laundry is incorrectly distributed to the wrong neighbor.
Leave lawnmower running in your living room six hours a day for proper noise level. (For Engineering Divisions)
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.
Sleep with your dirty laundry.
Invite guests, but don't have enough food for them.
Buy a broken exercise bicycle and strap it down to the floor in your kitchen.
Buy a trash compactor and use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread, if anything. (Optional--canned ravioli, cold soup, or cherry peppers)
Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your yard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5 or 6 hours before drinking.
Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Store your eggs in your garage for two months and then cook a dozen each morning.
Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Periodically check your refrigerator compressor for "sound shorts".
Put a complicated lock on your basement door and wear the key on a lanyard around your neck.
Lockwire the lugnuts on your car.
When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is baking. Then spread icing really thick on one side to level off the top.
Every so often, yell "Emergency Deep", run into the kitchen, and sweep all pots/pans/dishes off of the counter onto the floor. Then, yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go and stand in front of your stove. Say (to nobody in particular) "Stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3 or 4 hours. Say (once again to nobody in particular) "Stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put them away.
Write a controlled work package to change the oil on your car.
Here's one for a small audience.
How to Live the Submarine Life at Home:
Obtain a dumpster. Paint it black, weld all the covers shut except one which can be bolted closed from the inside. Hitch it to the back of your wife's mini van. Gather 12 friends and bolt yourselves inside and let your wife pull it around for several weeks while she does the errands.
Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain. shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".
Don't eat any food that you don't get out of a can or have to add water to.
Paint all the windows on your car black. Drive around town at high speeds with your wife standing up in the sunroof shouting course and speed directions to you.
Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping.
Repeat back everything anyone says to you.
Sit in your car for six hours a day with your hands on the wheel and the motor running, but don't go anywhere.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".
Don't watch T.V. except movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one. Record The Sound of Music and show it at least every other night.
Don't do your wash at home. Gather your neighbors clothes along with yours, pick the most crowded laundromat you can find, and do the neighborhood laundry in a single washer and dryer. Make sure that 12% of the laundry is lost and 20% of the finished laundry is incorrectly distributed to the wrong neighbor.
Leave lawnmower running in your living room six hours a day for proper noise level. (For Engineering Divisions)
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.
Sleep with your dirty laundry.
Invite guests, but don't have enough food for them.
Buy a broken exercise bicycle and strap it down to the floor in your kitchen.
Buy a trash compactor and use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread, if anything. (Optional--canned ravioli, cold soup, or cherry peppers)
Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your yard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5 or 6 hours before drinking.
Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Store your eggs in your garage for two months and then cook a dozen each morning.
Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Periodically check your refrigerator compressor for "sound shorts".
Put a complicated lock on your basement door and wear the key on a lanyard around your neck.
Lockwire the lugnuts on your car.
When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is baking. Then spread icing really thick on one side to level off the top.
Every so often, yell "Emergency Deep", run into the kitchen, and sweep all pots/pans/dishes off of the counter onto the floor. Then, yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go and stand in front of your stove. Say (to nobody in particular) "Stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3 or 4 hours. Say (once again to nobody in particular) "Stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put them away.
Write a controlled work package to change the oil on your car.
Roy.Jackson55@aol.com
You stupid, fix it!
Roy.Jackson55@aol.com
You stupid, fix it!
Small world. I was on line detail that day, though I do not remember which line I was on that day. Barcelona was a pretty cool liberty port. I had just turned 18 and had a few beers to celebrate. I remember when we pulled out. We crossed anchors with the tin can Med Moored along our port side. I don't recall the ships name, but what a mess. Later
Usaf
"Air Force, I great way of life" 1964-1984. Aircraft Maintenance Officer; T-33, F-104, F101, C-7A (Viet Mam), C-118A Belgium) HH-3, HH-53, HH-1, HH-130h/P/N, WC-135, C-5A. I still work for DoD as a civilian. When I graduated from college, I swore I'd never work for the government. It's funny how life works out.
Finely retired from Contract Management Agency May 2014, 30 years as a civilian overseeing Boeing manufacturing and logistics support of AV-8B, F/A-18, F-16, C-17 aircraft and Harpoon, SLAM-ER, CALCM and Tomahawk missiles and JDAM, Small Diameter Bombs. Total service 50 years.
Jay Green
R1200GS
"Air Force, I great way of life" 1964-1984. Aircraft Maintenance Officer; T-33, F-104, F101, C-7A (Viet Mam), C-118A Belgium) HH-3, HH-53, HH-1, HH-130h/P/N, WC-135, C-5A. I still work for DoD as a civilian. When I graduated from college, I swore I'd never work for the government. It's funny how life works out.
Finely retired from Contract Management Agency May 2014, 30 years as a civilian overseeing Boeing manufacturing and logistics support of AV-8B, F/A-18, F-16, C-17 aircraft and Harpoon, SLAM-ER, CALCM and Tomahawk missiles and JDAM, Small Diameter Bombs. Total service 50 years.
Jay Green
R1200GS
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JANMILLER
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'Nam Era '69-71 U.S. Army.
Never went to 'Nam, lucky.
Trained in Senior Special Electronic Device Repair, should have gone over, but through an odd sequence of events stayed stateside in Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, and never worked One Day in my MOS.
In MO, I joined a trail riding club, had the time of my life, one of the best experiences in it, despite the "Green D*&K" of the Army. Great friends, great country to ride in (no fences then), great parties, we were all in the same boat, no $$ but a desire to ride and party like crazy men... I do not regret a day, and .... the Army wasn't THAT bad....
Jim, the local Honda Shop owner, used to bootleg in cigars from Cuba (or at least that's what we thought), and got his bikes in Louisiana, he'd bring up a fresh batch of cigars and chickory coffee. You had to be an 'insider' to get either, and woe be it to you if you didn't drink the bitter black coffee you were given!!!! He was an owly bear of a guy, but a super human being, and man!!! could he ride... Maicos, Bultacos, Hodakas, Montessas, as well as the Yammies and Hondas, Kaws and Suzuki's were the beasts of the day. Combat Wombat, Super Rat... SL350.. 100cc Centurian...
I visited the shop a couple of years ago... Long abandoned... Just stood there as the memories poured over me.... A little memory is a wonderful thing....
Last year I went to the AMA museum. There was a display on motocross bikes. OLD ones. I'd owned or ridden quite a few.. Made me smile and laugh at my luck and curmudgeon-ness....
Thanks for the memories....!
Jan...
Never went to 'Nam, lucky.
Trained in Senior Special Electronic Device Repair, should have gone over, but through an odd sequence of events stayed stateside in Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, and never worked One Day in my MOS.
In MO, I joined a trail riding club, had the time of my life, one of the best experiences in it, despite the "Green D*&K" of the Army. Great friends, great country to ride in (no fences then), great parties, we were all in the same boat, no $$ but a desire to ride and party like crazy men... I do not regret a day, and .... the Army wasn't THAT bad....
Jim, the local Honda Shop owner, used to bootleg in cigars from Cuba (or at least that's what we thought), and got his bikes in Louisiana, he'd bring up a fresh batch of cigars and chickory coffee. You had to be an 'insider' to get either, and woe be it to you if you didn't drink the bitter black coffee you were given!!!! He was an owly bear of a guy, but a super human being, and man!!! could he ride... Maicos, Bultacos, Hodakas, Montessas, as well as the Yammies and Hondas, Kaws and Suzuki's were the beasts of the day. Combat Wombat, Super Rat... SL350.. 100cc Centurian...
I visited the shop a couple of years ago... Long abandoned... Just stood there as the memories poured over me.... A little memory is a wonderful thing....
Last year I went to the AMA museum. There was a display on motocross bikes. OLD ones. I'd owned or ridden quite a few.. Made me smile and laugh at my luck and curmudgeon-ness....
Thanks for the memories....!
Jan...
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Manfred
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Started life as an Army Brat - my dad served in the Field Artillery for 21 years. ROTC at Okla State (where I married another cadet). My (older) brother, wife, her oldest brother and his wife all went into the army out of college (all at OSU). I served 6 years active and 3 active reserve as a Combat Engineer officer:
Platoon Leader in 814th Float Bridge Company, 559 Engr Battalion, Hanau, 1979-1981
Bn S-4, 559th, Hanau, 1981-1982
XO, 66th ADM, 62th Engr Bn, Ft Hood, 1983-1984
CO, D Company, 62 Engr Bn, Ft Hood, 1985-1986
CO, D Company, 66th Engr Bn - Reserve, Dallas, 1986-1989
My wife served 4 years active as a maintenance officer.
Platoon Leader in 814th Float Bridge Company, 559 Engr Battalion, Hanau, 1979-1981
Bn S-4, 559th, Hanau, 1981-1982
XO, 66th ADM, 62th Engr Bn, Ft Hood, 1983-1984
CO, D Company, 62 Engr Bn, Ft Hood, 1985-1986
CO, D Company, 66th Engr Bn - Reserve, Dallas, 1986-1989
My wife served 4 years active as a maintenance officer.
gfspencer
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Jan, almost the same thing happened to me. I went to Fort Bragg and while I was still in the in-processing center the First Sergeant asked for people who could type. I raised my hand and was sent to HQ & HQ Company XVIII Abn Corps. I stayed there two years and then processed out.
A few years later and I was back in the Army as a Chaplain . . . as I mentioned before.
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