How many Veterans do we have at NCKA?

Very thoughtful post, here Brother. Thanks for that. U.S. Army 1967-1970: 4th Armored Division stationed in Germany, then 4th Inf. Div., Pleiku, Vietnam. Saw two or three others who were in Pleiku. Don't encounter that often. Thanks to all who served. All gave some. Some gave all.

Very thoughtful post, here Brother. Thanks for that.

THANK YOU! 

USAF 1981-1985.. stationed in England, RAF UPPER HAYFORD,Incerlic Turkey, Zaragosa Spain. Munitions tech on the f-111E aircraft.
To all you vets. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Im not a vet,my son is ,thank you all for your service.

98-02 USAF

 

Us Army, 1978-82 Ft Jackson, Ft Gordon, Frankfurt Germany. --Crypto
National Guard, 1983-86 .  -- Tactical Radio

US Navy from 94-98 on board the USS Kearsarge.

USAF 1974-1979
Air National Guard 1979-1984

Stationed in Alaska, Iran, Egypt, Thailand, and the worst of all; Biloxi Mississippi.  Ha!!

Ended my USAF active duty as an instructor at the Institute of Applied Aero Space Sciences where I taught Tactical Air Navigation and Instrument Landing Systems.

2034th Combat Communication Squadron, Air National Guard
operation Jack Frost and Bright Star

USN 88-92
Cryptologic Technician
USS Mobile Bay CG-53
Operations: Imminent Thunder, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Firey Vigil
Stationed Pensacola Fl, Mayport Fl, Yokosuka Japan

USAF 1977-1981 F-111 Crew Chief  Mt Home ID
USAFR 1983-1987 C-5 & C-141 Crew Chief and flight line expiditer Travis AFB
Cal Air National Guard 1987-2003 C-130 Phase Dock puke and Supervisor Moffet Federal Airfield

Loved my "hobbie career," got injured coming out of a C-130 in 1999. If this didn't happen I'd still be in. Sent 9/11 as one of the first rescue units in theater. We were there already and got isolated for over a week. One week prior watched what the good ole USA can do when you piss us off. We leveled the west side of Al Basra. One of the few units  to not miss a mission, ever, while in theater. No has ever done that. Been all over the world flying in the back and front of the planes as an aircrew member. 

2002 - 2006 Ft Bragg, NC 82nd Airborne Division as tactical telecommunication and IT specialist

2006 - 2012 Camp Parks, CA Reservist

Now I am just about to finish my Warrant Officer basic course as IT security tech

87-99 most of my time was with the C co 184 Inf out of Auburn.

Basic training & AIT (12B) at Fort Lost in the Woods Mi. Went back to FLW a year later for 63B reclass. Did my inf reclass at Camp Roberts a couple years after that. Then was selected for a JCDTF unit Team Wolf stationed out of Beales AFB for 4 years of active duty. Finished my service as a battalion recon squad leader with HQ co 184 in Modesto.

Trained at Irwin, Polk, Schofield, Pohakuloa Training Area

Night Stalkers...

US Army 481st Transportation 2001-2009 Deployed to Kuwait/Iraq 2004-2005.

USS Elliot DD-967 1990 - 1995
ET-3
Sat in an air conditioned space waiting for the equipment to break.

How I simulate the navy life now...

Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight.

Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls.

Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement "deck gray."

Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold.

Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secured.

Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling.

Have your next door neighbor come over each day at 5am, and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout "Reveille, Reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in the back yard at 6am and read it to you.

Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then lock the bathroom door for 12 hours, and hang a sign on it that reads "Secured - contact OA DIV at X-3053."

Submit a request form to your father-in-law, asking if it's ok for you to leave your house before 3pm.

Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After the 6 months is up, take down the boards, and since you're on duty, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home...you can't leave until the next day.

Shower with above-mentioned friends.

Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home (i.e. Dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc)

Walk around your car for 4 hours checking the tire pressure every 15 minutes.

Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lit off".

Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not.

Repaint your entire house once a month.

Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on.

Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, randomly losing every 5th item.

Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch CNN and the Weather Channel.

Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears.

Sew back pockets to the front of your pants.

Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe, and call it "world travel."

Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonald, and NOT get promoted.

Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed.

When your children have been in bed for 3 hours, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack, and order them to man their battle stations.

Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don't pay attention to the menu any more, they just ask for hot dogs.

In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have you family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals.

Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. Then tell them that at the end of the 6th week you're going to take them to Disneyland for "weekend liberty". When the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get ready for E-cert, and that it will be another week before they can leave the house.

USAF 2003-2008 heavy equipment operator and pavements journeyman
30th CES vandenberg afb
823rd RHS hurlburt field

Deployed to Iraq 2005-2006, 2006-2007