Ok Veterans... ROLL CALL!

Almost at 20 in USAF. 15 in Logistics/supply, 5 in special investigations. I've been stationed in Iceland, England, Turkey, DC, NJ, Guam, Hawaii, and Korea. Had TDY's to Saudi Arabia (x2), Turkey, Qatar, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. Supported (TDY) to DESERT STORM/CALM, OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT II, III, OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, and INFINITE JUSTICE (original name). Survived Supertyphoons Pongsona, and Chata'an, and a whole slew of natural disasters that seem to follow me (Icelandic hurricane, UK snowstorms, Turkish Flooding and major earthquakes, Guam earthquakes, etc... I was going to retire in June, but decided to take an assignment to Korea. Haven't been there, so what the heck...then the AF decided to send me to the UK, and now the family won't let me retire!

I spent 3 years in the U.S. Army, took B.T. at Ft. Jackson S.C. in Nov '74. I started out as a Generator Operator/Repairman, but let them talk me into changing my MOS to Fire Direction Control for Artillery. After B.T. I was assigned to Ft.Hood TX. to Field artillery Unit in the 2nd Armored Division in F.D.C. Although I was learning that through OJT and doing pretty good at it, they decided to send me to AIT for more specialized training,and it did not work out so great. I could handle the firing charts just fine, but my math was way too weak to do the rest of it so I washed out of that. They then changed my MOS to 13B10 Artillery Crewman/Ammo Handler with emphasis on the ammo handler part. We did train on the 8 inch howitzer, but I mainly supplied ammo to it. Everyone had a chance to pull it's tail though. Man that thing could talk. I spent 22 months at Ft.Hood then got my orders to go to Germany. I spent my last year at Pinder Barracks that was just a short distance from Nurnberg. I was with the 1stAD the and we has the 120mm howitzers. That ammo was about 100 pounds light than the 8 in. ammo was. I got out in Oct.'77 and signed my papers at Fort Dix, NJ. As the years went by, I always kind of wish I would have made a career of it. I enjoyed that a lot more than anything that I have done since. Other than the tail end of Vietnam, which I did not know was still winding down when I joined, there were no wars or actions while I was in. The only thing we were concerned about was a group in Germany that called itself the Baader-Meinhoff Gang, but nothing ever really happened with them, at least not with my unit. Then there were the occasional Russian vehicle, they would look at us and we would look at them, and then report the sighting.