Happy Veteran's Day and annual veteran check in.

[denbot]

Me in the Persian Gulf (Bahrain) circa 1980.



My ship.



Recent picture with my belly upsized, and my ship downsized.

[old mark]

1. You look a lot more comfortable now. Have a great day, all vets.

Thanks for the post, Db.

:hi:

mark
Former Sp4, 1/504 PIR

[Swede]

2. I'm not a vet,but my dad was in WW II.

I have lots of family that were or in the military. Heartfelt thanks to all of you.

[Orsino]

3. US Army REMF & NCO, 1991-97

Best wishes and thank-yous to all vets. :patriot:

[deucemagnet]

4. USAF 1986-1991, checking in.

:patriot:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. Semper Fi

USMC 1968-72..........

[Aristus]

6. Delta Co. 1/69th Armored. Desert Shield, 1990. Desert Storm, 1991:

On edit: I realize that my post title may be misleading. 1/69's mission in Desert Shield was not in Saudi Arabia, but loading and shipping ops in Bremerhaven, Germany. It was our first operational mission since Vietnam. We got our orders to deploy to the Gulf a month later.

[Twillig]

17. Those gloves don't look army issue, Soldier--

and I know you didn't go and paint my CVC helmet, didja?

BTW, the gunner is about to do an MRS update. DUCK!

We used to wear Ski goggles instead of the piece-of-shit army goggles. And we painted our CVC's.
One friend of mine had "PEACE" on his. The fucking Corps commander (Crosby Saint) saw that and said
"we're not in that business" then he had something to say in private to the company commander, and
upon return all CVC's were painted OD. :-)

1-34 Ar '87-91.

Desert Storm came along and we didn't have to go to Ft. Irwin.

Woot.

:woohoo:

That calls for a beer. So does not rolling on to Baghdad. Thank you G.H.W. Bush!
:toast:

[Aristus]

22. Glove shells, leather, black, draw-tab fastened, 2 each.

"No enemy but Peace." That's part of the Marine Corps Rifleman's Prayer, right? That about sums up the Marines for me. Glad I was a Army dogface. And thanking Bush Sr. for not going in to Baghdad brought to mind an image of Dub-ya making the decision to go to war in Iraq by saying: "Daddy, you cain't tell ME whut t'do nomore!" I can't wait until this whole craziness is over...

:patriot: to you, sir!

[guitar man]

7. USMC 81-84

:patriot:

[hobbit709]

8. USAF 1969-73.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Another Army REMF, '66-'68

Didn't go to sea, but drank an ocean of good German beer!

:hi:

[deucemagnet]

10. Afternoon kick for my fellow vets. n/t

[Ptah]

11. USAF 1970-1974

B-52 Avionics Castle AFB

[old mark]

14. I always wanted to fly in one of those guys.......nt

[Tikki]

12. U S Army 1968~1970...

Mr. Tikki

[driver8]

13. US Navy ( 1985 - 1991).

Ran nuclear power plants on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[Raffi Ella]

15. Happy Veteran's Day.

:patriot:

Both my brothers served: The older one signed up straight out of high school and is now in Delta Force at Fort Bragg. The younger one served at Bragg as well, 4 years, 82nd Airborne Division.

[Mugu]

16. USN 75-79, USS Constellation.

[MrScorpio]

18. USAF 1983-2005 here!

[bluedigger]

19. Happy Veterans Day!

USA/ANG '82-'89 101st Airborne, 1st Infantry (Forward)

:patriot:

[trof]

20. "We killum with fillum" Also "Alone, unarmed, and unafraid"

:-)
Recce pilots.
106th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron.
1963-1971.

RF-84/F

[Pool Hall Ace]

21. Happy Veterans Day!

:patriot: My dad served during WWII and Korea

I can't help but wonder what the responses would be on Free Republic. :rofl:

[UTUSN]

23. It's reveille again?!1 n/t

[qnr]

24. Me (in the trash can)

While I was down in Antarctica on this old lady

[bluesbassman]

25. Happy Veteran's Day my friend. US Army '77 to '79

2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 71st Maintenance Battalion, Nürnberg, Germany. 62B, Engineer Equipment Repairman. :patriot:

[RushIsRot]

26. US Army 63-66