Military Round-Up Thread

Attention to Muster!

Military members from all countries and branches of service, stand by to sound off!

Active Duty, Reservist, Retired, or Prior Service are all welcome!

Brihard mentioned last week that we needed another one of these threads, and I got tired of waiting around for someone else to make it.

Post your service photo (Bonus points if wearing BCG's), details of service, best/worst memories, duty stations, deployments, decorations, whatever!

I'll start it off...


Rank: E-5 (Petty Officer Second Class)

Rate/NEC/MOS: Yeoman/0000

Years of Service: August 2006 to Present

Duty Stations Assigned:
Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL (Aug 06-Dec 06)
Naval Technical Training Center, Meridian, MS (Dec 06-Feb 07)
AEGIS Training and Readiness Center, Dahlgren, VA (Mar 07-Present)
USS ESSEX (LHD-2) (Apr 09-May 11)

Brief Description of Duties: Providing customer service to military personnel regarding pay, allowances, leave, and correspondence. Upkeep or personnel service records and command instruction program.

Best Memory: Putting on the Navy ballcap. I'm not usually a sap for these kinds of things, but replacing my Recruit ballcap with the Navy one was one of the greatest moments in my life, I'll never forget it.

Worst Memory: There's a lot, but none that I couldn't take something positive away from. If I had to pick, probably when I had to stand and 8 hour roving security watch in A-School, because the person who was supposed to relieve me didn't show up, and neither did the person who was supposed to relieve him. Walking around outside in 30 degree weather from 0000 to 0800 is not fun.



Edited by PaiNTbALLfReNzY - 26 November 2008 at 10:53am

Can ex-military join this game as well?

Well, I don't do pictures.  Always hated them in general and have not liked the idea of my photo on the net since I found it on an ex-girlfriends web site.  (There were also pictures of my house and car taken from a distance.)

I did a little over 23 years in the USAF and spent the entire time in Security Forces.  Outside of a tour in the UK I spent my career stateside.  (Not by choice until the last few years.)

Worst memory would be breaking through the ice of a frozen lake during a winter exercise.  There are too many good memories to select from; but, in general, the best ones are related to watching trouble troops that I helped turn around become NCOs and leaders in their own right.


Edited by Mack - 26 November 2008 at 6:09pm

Does Starfleet count?

Brian Fellows wrote: Does Starfleet count?

If you want it to count, you have to convince me it will.

I guess this would be a good place to ask this. How did you guys study for your ASVAB?

USMC 2000-2008

E6 Staff Sergeant

Sniper/Scoutsman

1st Bn. 1st Marine Div. 2000-2002
1st Recon Bn. 2002-2008

Operation Enduring Freedom
Many other operations not yet declassified.

 

Best Memory: Making it out alive. Aside from that, joining.

Planing to join the canadian armed forces as soon as done schooling .

 

I know it dont count but still.

ocs=enlisted, then decides to become an officer

rotc=college+military at the same time and=end of ocs anyway when you graduate. being a 2LT

scotchyscotch wrote: Predatorr wrote: Yeah, also considering OCS after college. I'd like the regular college experience. I'll be the first officer in my family.  Brother, mother, father, uncles, and grandfathers were all enlisted.  They'll hate you.

welcome to my life. same problem. just have to be an officer at family gatherings until they get over it. "well sarge, i just don't give a . so pass the corn and deal with it"