you can bet your bohonkus they do...... i can still name all of mine after 50 years that basic training was my really out of the box experience and it taught me a lot
SBO veterans... when, where, and how did you serve?
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OMG I am still laughing as I type this.I was not in the military, I was in the Air Force
Another Navy Jody call...
"I don't know but I've been told, Navy wings (aviator pin) are made of Gold! I don't but its been said, Air Force wings (pilot pin) are made of Lead! Sound off 1,2... 3,4!"
Jim...
I was there over the July fourth holiday. (Training had not yet started) I helped set up a booth at the USO and we won first place for best booth. It was "pick your state" It was a map of the US with nails from the back and sponge rubber balls to throw. It got me weekend passes during basic.
I finally found the company it was B-4. I did not remember and my file does not indicate which platoon. Looks like we were in the same training outfit. If I remember correctly that is where I was the barracks Sargent.
do you remember sgt HUFFAKER OR SGT LOMAX or SGT LAQUE by any chance if so this is a small world indeed
Enlisted in the Air Force 1978, San Antonio Basic Training, Keelser AFB MS for Tech School, Radio Maintenance, 2155th CS McConnell AFB 1979-81, Wichita KS, OL-A Argentia Newfoundland 1981-83, Det 1 1ACCOMW Silvercreek NE 1983-1985, 2189ISS Comiso AB Sicily 1985-1986, 3CCG Tinker AFB, OK 1986-1994, Desert Storm 1991, 3rd CS Elemendorf AFB, AK 1994-1995, HQ Air Combat Command Langley AFB VA 1995-1999 retired MSGT. Lots of good times in there.
I was there over the July fourth holiday. (Training had not yet started) I helped set up a booth at the USO and we won first place for best booth. It was "pick your state" It was a map of the US with nails from the back and sponge rubber balls to throw. It got me weekend passes during basic.
I finally found the company it was B-4. I did not remember and my file does not indicate which platoon. Looks like we were in the same training outfit. If I remember correctly that is where I was the barracks Sargent.
do you remember sgt HUFFAKER OR SGT LOMAX or SGT LAQUE by any chance if so this is a small world indeed
Those names do not ring any bells in my old tired head. I was trying to remember the Sargents name that stored a model sail boat I was building. But it escapes me. It got destroyed during shipment from there.
I finally found the company it was B-4. I did not remember and my file does not indicate which platoon. Looks like we were in the same training outfit. If I remember correctly that is where I was the barracks Sargent.
do you remember sgt HUFFAKER OR SGT LOMAX or SGT LAQUE by any chance if so this is a small world indeed
Those names do not ring any bells in my old tired head. I was trying to remember the Sargents name that stored a model sail boat I was building. But it escapes me. It got destroyed during shipment from there.
Had a low draft number in the first draft 12/1/69 so enlisted for Army OCS. Basic at Ft Leonard Wood, AIT at Tigerland at Ft Polk La (butthole of the US). Through a bunch of lucky accidents ended up in Germany in "Special Weapons". After discharge I was reactivated and ended up at the Records Center in St Louis for another year and a half. Was on the discharge review board for the reserves discharging doctors who found Jesus after the Army paid for medical school and just couldn't go on active duty.
Delayed entry spring of 74 USCG, Boot camp Cape May NJ left as E-2, deck ape USCGC Hollyhock Miami. Slotted HM school New London CT, assigned to USCGC Blackthorn at Mobile transferring to Galveston as independent duty corpsman. Completed enlistment of 4yrs 6 mo at Cape San Blas Fl about a year before the sinking of the Blackthorn. I drive by the memorial and often stop to read the names I so well remember, perhaps it is fitting to place the coin atop.
SailM8. Second that on Tiger Land. USAR 6-1-69 through 6-1-75. Fort Polk Basic 10-1-69, Fort Polk AIT 1-170. 11Bravo because they didn't have any slots for more combat engineers at Fort Leonard Wood. 6mos of penance for getting into the Reserves I guess. My lottery number was 100, fortunately I was already in. Basic was interesting being one of 30 northern reservists in a company of a 160, mostly pissed off draftees from La, Alabama, and Mississippi. Yikes!
Draft #2, How lucky is that? Deferred through my undergraduate degree (stupid me graduated before I turned 20) but was from a modest income (poor) family and ran out of money to defer any longer (even though I was working full time). My family didn't know anyone so could not get into the reserves or the guard. Was 1 of the 4 the USCG excepted in July of '71 from Alabama, spent a cold summer/fall in the estuary between Alameda and Oakland. Wanted to go anywhere but back to the south but as luck would have it, AE school Navy JAX, then straight to flight school in Pensacola area, Running short on enlistment time for flight training, so extended for a year. (What was I thinking) . Wanted to go anywhere but Mobile AVTRACEN but you guessed it. The airplanes I flew were older than me. Due to USCG money problems (not part of big budget Homeland Security then) got away early at 4 years 5 months and 2 hours on the clock. I remember the day, just like in my dreams, "It was a cloudy morning as I was heading out to the front gate. I stopped to give the renta cop my pass and then, and then, yes, yes, the sun broke though the clouds an shown down upon me. I was at my new engineering job by lunch where I was 4 years and 5 months behind all these punk ass kids. If I would have had money and got those deferments, I might be running for president right now. Would I do it again? Well I'm a realist and that is a dumb question, the past is the past and you can't change it. You observe it, learn from it, keep your head up, and move on. Bad times fade, good times remain in your memory. How lucky is that!
Sorry for the long post but I have a ton of projects and I wanted to procrastinate a while longer.
Sorry for the long post but I have a ton of projects and I wanted to procrastinate a while longer.