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US Army 3 years----- 5-68 to 5-71
Ft Bragg
Ft Monmouth
Ft Dix
Ft Gordon
Vietnam
Schoefield Barracks
Ft Hood

Field Wireman, Telephone Pole Lineman, Artillery Repair

Berm Rat in Dong Tam, RVN---1969
Dong Tam was near My Tho, in the Mekong Delta

Bearcarver
 
US Navy 1963-1967 5 combat tours Republic of VNM,
USAF 1971-1987, Luke AFB,AZ // Campion AFS, AK // Weirhof Germany // Mt. Hebo AFS, OR // McChord AFB, WA // Rockville AFS, Iceland // Final assignment US Space Command Plank Owner Cheyenne Mountain Complex and Peterson AFB, CO. Retired MSgt 1987.
 
USMC
1975-79
1st Bat - 4th
0331
Proud to have served with our beloved Corps

Ohhhh Rahhhh

Mojo
 
USMC Cpl 1991-1996
29 Stumps
Camp Pendleton, ORH
MCAS Futenma, Okinawa
MCAS Yuma, Az

AZ Air National Guard since 1999, dual status technician since 2001
OAF, ONA, OIF, OEF
Qatar
Turkey
Spain
Germany
England
Norway
 
Retired from Navy, Naval Aviation.
1972 - 1994
Tonkin Gulf Vietnam 74-76 we flew support for evacuation
Desert Shield/Storm
Was on Enterprise, Independance, Carl Vinson (Maiden Cruise), Midway.
Also was at NAS Miramar, NAS North Island, NAS Whidbey Island, NAF Atsugi Japan, NAF El Centro.
Worked as Civilian for NAF El Centro, Marine Corps Barstow CA, now at Ft Leavenworth, KS.
 
Retired US Army '67 to '91
Ft Bliss, Tx, Korea, Brooklyn, NY, Taiwan, Ft McClellan, Al, Germany, Ft Polk, La, Korea, Ft McClellan.

Being in the military wasn't that great until President Reagan, but I still loved every minute of it.

Thanks to all those past and present and their families. For those deployed, come home safe!
 
Vietnam Vet and damn proud of it
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USN 1971-1999 active & reserve retired HMC/FMF Chief Petty Officer field corpsman with Marines-
Oakland Naval Hospital
Okinawa Japan one year-
did four month cold weather package Mt. Fuji Japan 1974
Training missions-
Echo Co. 2/24 4th Mar Div company corpsman,
Des Moines, Ia (20 years)
Pendelton many times
Camp LeJune several training missions, & with Recon mobilization support for Beruit 1983
Bridgeport Ca. rock package (mountain warfare school)
Norway
Ft. Carson Co. rock package
Ft Riley Ks many times
Ft, McCoy Wis. many, many times winter & summer
29 Palms every third year
Richard Gebaur AFB 9th Marines regimantal CPO
Deset Shield/Storm 1990-91 II MEF

Thanks for asking
sorry no smoking photos

C.A. Koopman
HMC/FMF USN/R (ret.)
 
Joined the Tennessee National Guard 1985
76W Fuel spc. got tired of smelling like mogas and diesel switched to M110A2 8" howitzer SP (talk louder, ears are ringing)
C Btry 1/181st FABN TNARNG
Desert Shield/Storm
When they retired the 8" I switched to M1IP up to A1 in the 278th ACR (don't jump ditches like they do on the commercial unless you want to change out torsion bars)

Missed my redlegs and went back to M109 Paladin. (ears no longer ringing..now there is blissful silence)

2002 knee injury ended my career. 18.5 years
 
1990 to 2000
USS HALEAKALA (AE 25) for the first party in the gulf
MCCES at MCAGCC Twentynine Palms
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Bethesda Naval hospital
After getting off Active Duty I did a year of Reserve drilling in El Paso, TX
 
I had a drawer fall on my big toe when I was there and it turned purple and swelled up like a big turnip. A Corpsman at sickbay wanted to put a red-hot paperclip through the top of the nail to relieve pressure.
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There wasn't enough people in the clinic that day to hold me down for the procedure so I walked away and dealt with the pain and subsequent toenail loss instead..
I wonder if that was you...
I always loved the Corpsmen.. They bring 8 bandages and 200 rubbers on every TAD..
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Gotta keep the Marines and the bar girls safe...

Semper Fi my friend..
 
I wasn't a Corpsman or medical. I was the other kind of squid. I was the Chaplain at MCCES.
But speaking from personal experience the red hot paperclip does work.
Semper Fi
 
Army enlisted basic at ft Jackson Tank Hill '86
Combat medic
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Ft Sam Houston
ROTC Cal State commissioned in 90; "Clank Clank, I'm a tank" Armor School at Ft Knox 91
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Got out as a Captain in 97.
 
US Navy Jan 66 to Dec 69
2nd class diver on The USS Preserver ARS8 salvage ship out of Little Creek, Va. Spent the winters in the Caribbean looking for conks and pulling targets.Kinda like McHales navy.
Plank owner USS John F Kennedy Cva 67,made a med cruise, even took leave while in Europe.
Shell Back, EN3
 
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