Where Are You From?

[willis williams]

Sarg, Never took you serious! Just was joking about my job. The ones that made airfields and compounds were what we called heavy junk dozers and stuff. We breached mine fields and road blocks for the inf. sappers we will pave the way and in the old days of somalia command detinated mines. We never built shit. sweep roads at four in the mourning so convoys could run and shoot the man running cause you knew he was the one with the clacker. I only was around aces and cev's. I road in a a 113a3 or air gaurd in soft skin humvee's no heavy junk. Gotta love a one pound pop and drop or a miclic thats why they called us 12 bang bang. Oh I normaly jumped out of planes in the army and the hue's and black hawks landed fine on ruff ground. I do take you you serious when it counts you have good insite on the important shit.

 

[Sleeping Dragon]

G Battery, 29th Artillery, U.S. Army, but spent my combat time with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division.

They asked me. "Do you want to go to O.C.S. and be an officer"? I said. "NO".

They asked. "Do you want to go to Ranger School"? I said. "HELL NO"!

They asked. "Do you want to go to jump school"? I said. "I don't even want to ride on the plane, let alone jump out of it".

They said. 'OK. The Marines are in Vietnam, and they need artillery units who specialize in night time combat. So, we're gonna lend you to them".

I said. "Wait a minute. The Marines are part of the Navy, and an all volenteer outfit. I'm not Navy, and never volenteered for anything in my life".

They said. "Semper Fi".

I said. "Are there still openings at O.C.S."?

They said. "Enjoy the boat ride Marine".

 

[steve1]

I started out in the Infantry, but after 18 mos, while digging a trench in the pouring rain, I had an epiphany, aircrew get to sleep in clean sheets every night. Marched straight in and asked for OCS, after that RCAF Air Nav on C-130's, 23 yr in uniform, I've been TDY to all the damn shitholes around the world like Sarge, but also some incredible memories. Imagine for a moment floating on a hand-carved, 40' houseboat, on a lake covered in floating flowers, in the foothills of the snow-capped Himalayan Mountains. That was Lake Dul and it was magic. I was there in 83 working/attached to the UN in Srinigar, Kashmir.

 

[Sarg]

A fellow zoomie!!!! I'll let all my navigator digs slide. Roger the shitholes.

Sarg

 

[AverageJoe11]

US Army 19D Cavalry Scout
2nd ACR
Stationed at Ft Polk, Louisiana
From 02 to 03 went from Kuwait to Qatar and back to Kuwait for OEF. Then went to Iraq for the start of OIF.

 

[combatgoldfish]

I was a Combat Engineer when it was a 21 bravo and I guess they changed it back to 12B. I also picked up a Infantry MOS secondary for fun.

OIF (Camp Liberty) Baghdad was my entire A/O

Also was a responder for Hurricane Katrina mainly for security patrols and a few humanitarian missions here and there.

 

[willis williams]

Sad to see that 12b's bump themselves off. I was told in a fire fight I had 3 second life expectancy because my job was between the enemy and the infantry. I went through combat lifesaver coarse when they still taught ivies and such thankfully I never had to use it. It did keep me somewhat protected by sapper team because I was the one with the 1500ml bags of saline, j tube, catheters, and all the other fun stuff if someone got hit. Never thought about the suicide rate though makes a little sense. I have never been able to find that rush again makes life real boring.

 

[tnkg1rl]

63W heavy wheeled vehicle repairer. If it had wheels a Diesel engine and stayed on the ground I fixed it.
It's now called a 63B, all the 3rd shop jobs were given to civvies and they moved all the wrenches into the motor pool to run a jiffy lube.
3 combat tours and 18 months in Korea

 

[vikingr12]

1T2X1, PJ Air Force. Eventually changed to CC. That MOS has changed I understand.
The PJ pipeline,Lackland, Benning, Albrook (panama), Naha, NKP Thailand, Ban Me Thout, Cam Ranh, Eglin, Hurlbert, MacDill. I am sure I forgot some. Who counts a 2 day training session?
Military brat: too numerous to mention.
I look at an aircraft these days (especially civilian) and I get a wave of dizziness. I hate flying anymore. I hate parachuting. I still enjoy studying medicine -- it's an art not a science.

I join Sarge as a recluse. It's getting worse. Just want to be normal.