Roll Call and Veteran's Day Salute

Freezer

A heart felt salute to all the men and women who have served this great country.

Lets stand together for Roll Call

HM2 R Brill USN 13 years (me)

HM1 J Brill USN 15 years (wife)

GunNut

My future son in law USAF Major and C130 Talon pilot just separated after 16 years.  This is his first Veterans Day!  Daughter is about to become one after 10.  Son still in and will be for 4 more to his 20.

Big Al1

USAF 1969-1995. F-4 crew chief Da Nang 1971.

Diver43

USA 1977-1997  Traffic Management Specialist 

Varmintmist

104RFAST

1962/1966 F-104B and QF-104A Crew Chief, Eglin AFB. 
BTW I had a very nice free lunch today at Applebee's, lots of Vet's, Good for Applebee's 

Spk

86/94 5811 Military Police

And Happy 244th  🎂 USMC

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/marine-corps-birthday

jaywapti

4 years USAF
4 years USNR

JAY

tennmike

SH4 1972-1976. Ships Store records clerk and pants presser to the Chiefs, and the officers that thought they ran the ship!

Me on left, and my shipmate 'Goose' Gosling skating away on the thin ice of a new day after morning muster somewhere in the Med in '73.

BAMAAK

USAF 1978 -1985 C-141 crew chief, calibration tecnician

Jayhawker

U.S.  Army 1969-1974, Fire Control Specialist, Army Air Defense Command

Big Al1

Gene L

Army, 1966-1971.  Viet Nam 68-69, 2/3, 199 Light Infantry Brigade.

Linefinder

USMC, '77-'81. 2542 Comm, but our '30's era gear rarely worked, so in the field we usually got sent to the grunts.

2nd Force Troops.
3rd Marine Amphibious Brigade.
1st Marine Air Wing.
4th Marine Division HQs.


Mike

Diver43

Woodsrunner was a USN Vet 

Linefinder

Thanks for posting that.

Mike

rbsivley

USAR 1975-1985 Engineers, USAR AGR 1986-2007, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-2004.

JKP

Diver43 said:

Woodsrunner was a USN Vet 

Yes. Retired as a Commander as a I recall. 

JKP

USN 89-95. Data Systems Technician, USS Wasp. 

Buford

USN 76-80 Boiler tech. USS Henderson DD-785

NN

Nutty Ned
1965-1985

Flew a C-46 once from the left seat once after getting airborne.

Linefinder

NN said:

Nutty Ned
1965-1985

Flew a C-46 once from the left seat once after getting airborne.

Gotta be a story behind that.

Mike

NN

Linefinder said:

NN said:

Nutty Ned
1965-1985

Flew a C-46 once from the left seat once after getting airborne.

Gotta be a story behind that.

Mike

Nothing special----I had tagged along on a logistic flight from Cherry Point to somewhere in VT. The aircraft Commander, a LTCOL, wanted to take a nap in the back and told me to get in his seat and fly the plane. He left me up there with some hotshot Maj co-pilot.


I guess I was a little rough, having never flown a two engine prop A/C before and caught
some static from the Major. Then when the Col came back up front, he complained about me being  ham-fisted.


The Col told him to relax cause I was a NFO not a pilot.

Actually I did not do too bad ----I stayed reasonably well on altitude and heading  and most importantly on the airway.

NN

NN said:

Nutty Ned
1965-1985

Flew a C-46 once from the left seat once after getting airborne.

Gila

AT1 - Twelve years in the Navy, and member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. 

We had a nice lunch at my VFW, Post 4903, after the parade in Tucson today.

GunNut

Thank you all for your service and sacrifices.  You deserve much more than just one day in the calendar.

Make_My_Day

US Army, April 1970 to April 1973 Medical Laboratory Specialist / Blood Bank Specialist (SP5), USAREUR Blood Bank, Landstuhl, Germany. This was a mobile unit and we went to many parts of Germany to draw blood from those stationed in Germany, and for the troops in Viet Nam and other places in Europe. The attached picture was taken on the morning I left Landstuhl before ETS-ing from the Army. The guy on the right side was going with me, and the one on the left was another friend from the company I was in.

Diver43

Make_My_Day said:

US Army, April 1970 to April 1973 Medical Laboratory Specialist / Blood Bank Specialist (SP5), USAREUR Blood Bank, Landstuhl, Germany. This was a mobile unit and we went to many parts of Germany to draw blood from those stationed in Germany, and for the troops in Viet Nam and other places in Europe. The attached picture was taken on the morning I left Landstuhl before ETS-ing from the Army. The guy on the right side was going with me, and the one on the left was another friend from the company I was in.

SP5, I was one of those for a while also. You and the guy on the left had pretty long hair, even for the 70s.

Make_My_Day

Diver43 said:

SP5, I was one of those for a while also. You and the guy on the left had pretty long hair, even for the 70s.

Medical companies were traditionally pretty lax, at least in Germany compared to the combat outfits, but if you kept your hair above the collar and off your ears, and the moustache above the corner of the mouth, you could get away with it. The guy on the right had much longer hair, but he hid it by putting a lot of hair grooming stuff in it, and brushing it straight back. I think they were leaving short-timers be.

Diver43

We forgot to account for BigChief and seeing he can't post on here Teach

Vic's Viewpoint

Victor T Lafrank, USAF 1962 - 1966, USAREUR ComZ, 3-1/2 years @ Evreux-Fauville Air Base, Normandy, France.  Admin specialist and unofficial base translator, Jack of all Trades.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Participated in a nice "Salute to our Alumni Veterans" at my old high school in Alexandria, VA yesterday, with the entire student body, teachers and administrators in attendance.  There was a guest speaker, patriotic hymns, the school band played the services' dedicated songs, and numerous standing ovations for us, the veterans.  Since I was easily the oldest vet alumnus there, I got my own portrait picture taken, plus the promise of a pic and small write-up in the school's annual magazine.  I must confess I can't wait to see it!  It was very pleasant, and I departed suitably uplifted.