Everyone who has been or in the military please stop by and post please so we can recognize you! My father and grandfathers have been in! Thank you all! Stop by!(:

field artillery. us army.here. and that warthogs logo looks alot like the probably copyrighted logo for the arkansas razorbacks....just.fyi.

US Navy. 26 years of helicopters, carriers, and aviation.

Attack squadron 192, NAS Lemoore California. 2 tours USS kitty hawk, Tonkin gulf Vietnam.

Hey Crockett, A4's, A-6's, or A-7's?

A-7s

Nice! My first ship was the USS Enterprise and we had VA-22 Fighting Redcocks in the airwing, A-7's.. loved the squad motto: "You can't beat a redcock" LOL

Retired from the Army in 2006 with about 21, including several fun trips around the world to kill people for Uncle Sam, just to get the college money.

My 10th great grandfather was in the PA Musketry Battalion, later the Pennsylvania Line, and was at the Battle of Long Island when Washington pulled a MacArthur moment. Dad was in the Air Force in the 60's, but never deployed anywhere, as the unpleasantness had just started in the jungles of Vietnam when his enlistment ran out and he left to try and get rich in the big city, Erie PA.

Relatives in most of the other conflagrations, Dad's grandfather on his mother's side was a parapet shooter in WWI. The American Expeditionary Force was short on snipers, but had designated marksmen manning parapets, dueling with iron sights against Germans with scoped rifles. With his German last name and accent he apparently wasn't trusted until he started scoring kills.

Uncle was in green beret
Other uncle was in 10th mountain division
Cousin in navy
Stepdad was in airforce reserves
Cousin was in navy seals
Grandpa in americal division in Vietnam
Great uncle navy photographer in Vietnam
Great uncle airforce in Vietnam
Great grandpa medic pacific theatre ww2

I plan on joining national guard in a year and a half

Soo ummm. I see u all are either vets or know someone who is and you all got experience and all, but me im just an airforce recruit that hasnt even shipped out for basic training yet. Some day i hope to be an experienced and successful vet like some of you guys are! So ya anyways i thought i would just throw my name in here. Cuz im sorta a military people.

Longrifle wrote: Retired from the Army in 2006 with about 21, including several fun trips around the world to kill people for Uncle Sam, just to get the college money.

My 10th great grandfather was in the PA Musketry Battalion, later the Pennsylvania Line, and was at the Battle of Long Island when Washington pulled a MacArthur moment. Dad was in the Air Force in the 60's, but never deployed anywhere, as the unpleasantness had just started in the jungles of Vietnam when his enlistment ran out and he left to try and get rich in the big city, Erie PA.

Relatives in most of the other conflagrations, Dad's grandfather on his mother's side was a parapet shooter in WWI. The American Expeditionary Force was short on snipers, but had designated marksmen manning parapets, dueling with iron sights against Germans with scoped rifles. With his German last name and accent he apparently wasn't trusted until he started scoring kills.

Most of my family comes from Erie.. Dad, mom, and several relatives. Did you spend any time in the "big city"?

Viper10{WP} wrote:

Longrifle wrote: Retired from the Army in 2006 with about 21, including several fun trips around the world to kill people for Uncle Sam, just to get the college money.

My 10th great grandfather was in the PA Musketry Battalion, later the Pennsylvania Line, and was at the Battle of Long Island when Washington pulled a MacArthur moment. Dad was in the Air Force in the 60's, but never deployed anywhere, as the unpleasantness had just started in the jungles of Vietnam when his enlistment ran out and he left to try and get rich in the big city, Erie PA.

Relatives in most of the other conflagrations, Dad's grandfather on his mother's side was a parapet shooter in WWI. The American Expeditionary Force was short on snipers, but had designated marksmen manning parapets, dueling with iron sights against Germans with scoped rifles. With his German last name and accent he apparently wasn't trusted until he started scoring kills.

Most of my family comes from Erie.. Dad, mom, and several relatives. Did you spend any time in the "big city"?

I spent summers on his labor camp...i mean farm. He lives in McKean, retired from the Times News. Used to fish on the bay and the lake. Half brother went to General McLane and PSU at Behrend.

My mom grew up in the vineyards of Harborcreek, my dad downtown Erie. We would go up there and fish either the pier or Presque Isle during the summers. After college at Edinborough State (sp?) they relocated to Bucks County, eastern side of the state. Still have lots of extended family in Erie that I don't know. Small world, eh?

Leonidas BB4th wrote: Soo ummm. I see u all are either vets or know someone who is and you all got experience and all, but me im just an airforce recruit that hasnt even shipped out for basic training yet. Some day i hope to be an experienced and successful vet like some of you guys are! So ya anyways i thought i would just throw my name in here. Cuz im sorta a military people.

Close enough. All us vets started where you are. Best time of my life and if I had to do it all over again I would without any hesitation.

Viper10{WP} wrote: My mom grew up in the vineyards of Harborcreek, my dad downtown Erie. We would go up there and fish either the pier or Presque Isle during the summers. After college at Edinborough State (sp?) they relocated to Bucks County, eastern side of the state. Still have lots of extended family in Erie that I don't know. Small world, eh?

Yep, niece just graduated from Edinboro this year

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