A Salute To Anyone That Served In The Military

  • LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    March 2, 2011 at 3:25 am #1271057

    A Salute To Anyone That Served In The Military

    Where did you serve and what companies did you serve with?

    296 Military Police Fort Lewis Washington White Hat MP

    296 Military Police Detachment Yakima, WA Military Game Warden

    385th Military Police Battalion Augsburg Germany White Hat MP

    Headquarters Community Augsburg Germany, Desk Sergeant and Security Manager/Comsec Custodian

    April 77 through July 84 active army

    fishtoeat
    Chippewa Falls, Wi
    Posts: 409
    March 2, 2011 at 3:58 am #942842

    Served in the 82ND from 83-86 with HHB 1/17th Air Calvary, then HHB 1/121 Field Artillery

    wildfan
    Ogilvie Minnesota
    Posts: 598
    March 2, 2011 at 4:45 am #942848

    210EIS USAFNG Minnesota 85-93

    louis-robinson
    dodge co. mn
    Posts: 469
    March 2, 2011 at 11:14 am #942863

    heres a big salute right back atcha!!!!!

    basic training and “A.I.T” AT FORTKNOX KY.. 19 delta cav scout.. stationed in fort hood tx.. served in dessert sheild and dessert storm.. hhc 1/8 cav first cav division

    “SCOUTS OUT HOOO RAAAA”

    luckydog2
    The Villages Florida
    Posts: 364
    March 2, 2011 at 11:16 am #942864

    U.S. Army 6/65 to 6/68 101st Airborne June 67 to June 68 Republic of South Viet Nam.

    holennet
    Park View, Iowa
    Posts: 175
    March 2, 2011 at 12:17 pm #942878

    Air Force, 1973-1977, basic training At Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Stationed at Spangdahlem Germany and Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, worked as an Avionics tech on F-4 fighters.
    Thanks to all that served and are presently serving.

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    March 2, 2011 at 12:18 pm #942879

    Thanks to you for your service, fellas (and any ladies)!

    Jeff Bennett
    Lake Puckaway Wi.
    Posts: 1180
    March 2, 2011 at 12:23 pm #942882

    Thanks to all you guys that served!

    KenDelano
    Albert Lea, MN
    Posts: 49
    March 2, 2011 at 12:32 pm #942886

    Oct 79-Feb 80 B12 Fort McClellan
    Feb 80-May 81 259th MP Co, WSMR, NM
    May-Sep 80 Patrol Dog Handlers Course, Lackland AFB
    Sep 81-82 552 MP Co/728th MP BN Pusan Korea
    Sep 82-Jan 82 978 MP Co, Ft Bliss
    Jan 82-May 86 591 MP Co (Later changed to Center MP) Ft Bliss
    May 86-Oct 86 Explosive Detector Dog Course
    Oct 86-Jan 1990 OPM USAEUR Heidelberg Germany

    packingheat
    Reads Landing Mn
    Posts: 696
    March 2, 2011 at 12:39 pm #942888

    Thank you all that have served

    fishim
    Minnesota
    Posts: 83
    March 2, 2011 at 12:45 pm #942891

    Thank you to all of you it is much appreciated!

    redneck
    Rosemount
    Posts: 2627
    March 2, 2011 at 12:50 pm #942893

    Air Force 1975-1979
    Basic at Lackland AFB in Texas then a year of Tech school in Keesler AFB in Mississipi and then three years in the jungles of South Dakota (Elsworth AFB)
    Air Traffic Control Radar Repairman

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    March 2, 2011 at 1:18 pm #942907

    USMC 81-85. I was deployed pretty much all 4 years. I was in Radio Communications. I did a stint with Grunts in Okanawa, Artillery in North Carolina, Airborn in California and with a stage 3 repair shop deplayed on a Navy ship traveling around the far east. (Phillipines, Korea, Tiawan, too many ports to list!) Best thing to happen to a 18 year old kid out of high school that knew everything. Never got shot at – I was lucky!

    That is nothing compared to any person who signed up after 9/11. You guys/gals have some serious gonads and my never ending respect and gratitude!!

    -J.

    redleg
    MN South Metro
    Posts: 3
    March 2, 2011 at 1:41 pm #942922

    Seved 22 years in the acticve Army in the Field Artillery. Ft. Ord, CA for basic (1971); Ft Wainwright, AK; Fort Sill, OK (2 tours as a Drill Sergeant); Ft. Carson, CO; Grafenwoher, Germany; Giessen, Germany; Desert Shield / Desert Storm I, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia; Ft. Snelling, MN for my last tour; retired as a First Sergeant in 1995. Ah, the memories!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    March 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm #942935

    Quote:

    That is nothing compared to any person who signed up after 9/11. You guys/gals have some serious gonads and my never ending respect and gratitude!!

    A big thank you to All Servicepeople, past and present. I have nothing but respect for what you have done for me and America.

    rvvrrat
    The Sand Prairie
    Posts: 1840
    March 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm #942946

    Quote:

    Quote:
    That is nothing compared to any person who signed up after 9/11. You guys/gals have some serious gonads and my never ending respect and gratitude!!

    A big thank you to All Servicepeople, past and present. I have nothing but respect for what you have done for me and America.

    Me too If you haven’t seen the documentary Restrepo do so, and you will agree even more.

    bofferdahl
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 22
    March 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm #942958

    652nd Engineer Company Ellsworth, WI 2000 – 2008. Deployed to Iraq 2003-2004.

    payday
    Ramsey, Mn
    Posts: 113
    March 2, 2011 at 2:44 pm #942969

    86-87 Basic and (95B) AIT at Ft McClellan, Al
    87-89 MP Kelley Barracks 7th Corp headquarters – Stuttgart Germany
    89-90 MP Seneca Army Depot Romulus, NY (Nuke storage site)

    I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I too am greatful to those that have, and continue to serve.

    sauger
    Hastings ,MN
    Posts: 2442
    March 2, 2011 at 2:49 pm #942973

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    March 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm #942979

    2nd Battalion, 147th Field Artillery – 1990 – 1999. South Dakota Army National Guard. Luckily for my mother’s heart I didn’t see any full time service.

    wiswalleyenut
    Central WI.
    Posts: 343
    March 2, 2011 at 3:30 pm #942994

    USMC 92-96
    5th Bn 10th Marines 2nd Mar Div., Camp Lejeune
    Mwss 171 ,Iwakuni Japan

    Semper FI!

    Nut

    mike-g
    Bloomington,MN
    Posts: 556
    March 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm #942996

    Thanks to ALL of you for your service!! Many, many Thanks!!

    nord
    Posts: 738
    March 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm #942997

    Army-1968-1970. Viet Nam with the 82nd Airborne 68-69 with Delta Co. 2nd of the 505 Infantry.

    steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    March 2, 2011 at 4:30 pm #943023

    • Enlisted 22 September 1967 and retired on 30 June 2002 – spent 34+ years in the United States Army with 4 ½ years on Active Duty and 30 years full-time service with the Minnesota Army National Guard.
    • Served in Republic of Vietnam from 1968 – 1969 with Co A 101st Aviation Battalion 101st Airborne Division as a Warrant Officer, Helicopter Pilot.
    • Took a direct commission to 1LT in 1970 and hung in there retiring at age 55 as a Colonel. It was a good career and I had the privilege of serving in some great command and staff assignments in Aviation and Infantry units. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
    • I sure am proud of the soldiers I see today serving in some incredibly demanding assignments. I salute their sacrifice and their families sacrifice.

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    March 2, 2011 at 4:58 pm #943037

    79 Basic and AIT at Ft. McClelland, AL for 95B
    79-91 with the 257th MP Co. (Minnesota’s Elite!)
    Sniper & SRT 81-90 (M-14’s with drop compensator scopes)
    We were White hats originally, and then became POW specialists and dealt with the Cuban Exodus to the US back in the early 80’s.
    We used to catch rides on Colonel DeMar’s Wop-Wop Birds! We would drop in and create hasty POW camps. I got out, and not to long after I got out, Desert Shield began. My brother got to go to that one.

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    March 2, 2011 at 5:22 pm #943055

    13 years 84th Div TNG USAR. Drill Sergeant for 10 years FT Knox, Fort Bragg, Benning, and Ft Sill. Kooty, drop and give me 10 cannon cockers and wipe that [censored] off your face.

    sgt._rock
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 2517
    March 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm #943070

    Redneck I knew we were too much alike besides our boys.

    Air Force here too. 1976-1980 Worked a year out of high school and then went in. Lackland AFB,TX to Sheppard AFB,TX to Travis AFB,CA and then Elmendorf AFB,AK I was an x-ray tech / EMT in the hospital.

    deerdragger
    Posts: 346
    March 2, 2011 at 6:15 pm #943075

    3rd Infantry Division “The Rock of the Marne”, 1-6 Mechanized Infantry, Vilseck, Germany 91-94 with deployments to Kuwait & Macedonia.

    MN Nat’l Guard, 1-136 Mech. Infantry (Detroit Lakes) 94-98.

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    March 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm #943079

    Quote:

    X I don’t know many, certainly more than two!!!

    Mark

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    March 2, 2011 at 8:09 pm #943130

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    13 years 84th Div TNG USAR. Drill Sergeant for 10 years FT Knox, Fort Bragg, Benning, and Ft Sill. Kooty, drop and give me 10 cannon cockers and wipe that [censored] off your face.

    Holy cow, Ft. Sill. Been there, done that. Never snuck off post into Lawton, but I heard stories. My daughters found my year book from my stay on post. My oldest says, “Daddy, why was your head so white and skinny?”

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