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Old 02-12-2009, 01:28 AM   #1
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ahh ok... well how long you gonna be in Japan? do you know your next base yet? you came from FL right? any chance your going back there?
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Old 02-12-2009, 10:15 AM   #2
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Old 02-12-2009, 10:43 AM   #3
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ahh ok... well how long you gonna be in Japan? do you know your next base yet? you came from FL right? any chance your going back there?
I'll be stationed here for 3 years. I have absolutely no idea where my next base is gonna be but I'm gonna try for Eglin/Hurlburt/Tyndall. I've got a surrogate family in Fort Walton Beach.
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Old 02-11-2009, 06:37 PM   #4
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I liked the 8 point cause you could wad that fucker up and its still look sharp when you gave it a shake and threw it on
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Old 02-11-2009, 07:01 PM   #5
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Swabbie in the middle of a bunch of grunts. 13 years Navy EM1 (E-6). Electrician's Mate.

Tours-Uss Flint (AE-32) 3 Westpacs (6-8 month tours) and various other BS.
Uss Samuel Gompers (AD-37) 1 Westpac and a lot of fun. (Ship was half female)
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Uss Yellowstone (AD-41) 1 Med cruise and GTFO. Worst ship in the USN-stationed at the worst port-Norfolk VA.

I always enjoyed being stationed in California. I miss it a lot. I never got as close to combat as most of you. We were in the gulf when Libya hit the Stark with an Exocet missle. Of course, being on an Ammunition ship-you can understand why we were so nervous.
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Old 02-11-2009, 07:03 PM   #6
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Back in the day 8-points were a bitch and a half to keep in decent shape. Only the front 1/8 was bordered, and no cover block would fit just right. Why it took them so long to come up with the idea of embroidering all 8 sides I'll never know, but the day I got my first was a great day in Marine Corps history.
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Old 02-11-2009, 07:18 PM   #7
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Well now,

Been Army for 11 years, I'm now an E-7 as a 56M, but I also hold 42A and 11B Mos's. Airborne, Air Assault, plus a couple more of the cool boy badges. Served int the stan 2x, both sort tours than most, the first was hard, the 2nd was a cake walk.

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Old 02-11-2009, 07:48 PM   #8
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All I have to say is

To all of you guys and gals.

Combat or not, you are doing a job most of this wouldn't do and you literally end up standing up for the rights the rest of us love to think we are entitled to.

While my short terms plans don't include the forces, I have been pondering AF for a while now. I still intend to e-mail ebbs with some questions and thoughts at some point.

Im 24 and don't know what to do.
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Old 02-11-2009, 08:15 PM   #9
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hrm ive got about eight years now five active with the 1-8 cav, 1st cav as a 19K (tanker) and the rest in the nj guard in 5-117 and 2-102 cav as a 19D (scout) and ive spent about three years in iraq across two deployments. oh yeah, im sergeant E-5 and almost always end up in charge of weapons for some reason



im the guy in the middle. we were waiting for our platoon sergeant to get done testifying at some fucker's trial and got bored, stole all the badges off the IP trucks and put them on our own. they didnt seem too happy about it when they came out but they damn sure didnt say shit about it

hey arch, when were you in coscom? good chance we were at hood about the same time
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Old 02-13-2009, 02:11 PM   #10
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Because women blouses normally button on the right. In civilian clothes I mean.... Dunno why they needed their uniforms changed though... All the females I've talked to hate it as they're used to the old way
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