Who served, and with what unit?

[RetiredGySgt]

The crest we all wore.

3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery, 8th Infantry Division

Stationed in Baumholder, Germany

Honor Graduate as Forward Observer (82C) from Fort Sill, OK

Received "Army Commendation Medal" working in S2, Military Intelligence

NOTE: This was for "Meritorious Service" and NOT Valor which would have been direct engagement with the enemy. Mine was for something I did while working in S2. I would never take credit for something I didn't do.

But that reminds me:

Remember when Right Wingers went after John Kerry for his medals? That invites similar scrutiny on the other side:

For the past month, the Swift Boat Vets have insisted Kerry did not legitimately earn his medals. Those assertions have all been discredited. Fairness now requires similar scrutiny to Bush's medals.

The media needs to demand the truth from Bush about his medals -- and about his still-unexplained grounding.

The right wing, so willing to dismiss charges against their own guys, so willing to smear someone innocent.

Bush's Bogus Medals - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution

https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy....,cf.osb&fp=309c14521557146d&biw=1742&bih=882

One of the ribbons is the Defense ribbon, everyone that served any time on active duty in the 60's and early 70's got one. It was reissued during Desert Storm and the current fighting.

 

[rdean]

Those aren't medals Bush is wearing, dumb fucking idiot.
Their ribbons. Probably unit commendations or something meaningless. If I color I could be precise.
And you claim to have served?
You should know better poser.

So you don't know. You're just spouting out your ass?

Army Commendation Medal Lapel Pin (Model #:2319 ARCOM-LP)

Do you see this guy wearing any "medals"?

When you receive a Medal, you also receive the ribbon that medal stands for. As well as "Permanent Orders" for that medal. Included in those permanent orders were medals for a SFC, a SGT and another SP4 like I was. The entire post attended the ceremony. In the two years I was stationed at Baumholder, I only attended one ceremony where this medal was awarded.

Believe it or not I don't care. I have it. It's mine. I earned it. And you don't have anything. Not even the truth.

 

[ginscpy]

Bill Clinton was a draft dodger.

 

[High_Gravity]

I didn't serve - caught in the transition period in the early 70s between the draft and the volunteer military.

But my older brother did - signed up for the Army ROTC in college because he knew he was going to be drafted.

Decided to make the army a career, stayed for 20 years and retired a Lt Col. Set for life.

That's nice for your brother but the thread isn't titled did you have a brother who served retard. Stop making excuses, nobody stopped you from going to the recruiter's office if you really wanted to enlist you fuckin arm chair general.

Lighten up bong head. 7 Years wiping wings don't exactly give you bragging rights.

When and where did you serve ass wipe?

 

[High_Gravity]

Hindsight is 20/20 dork.............

what wouldyou have done if you in my place at that time

probably the same thing...........

Unlike your bitch ass I actually joined the Military and went on 2 deployments, so how do you figure we would "do the same thing" retard?

 

[Warrior102]

[When you receive a Medal, you also receive the ribbon that medal stands for.

Yes, Douche Nozzle, I know that.

There are also RIBBONS without medals, i.e. a NUC and a MUC.

The medal you received (allegedly) isn't worth a shit. If you had earned a MSM or a LOM, then you would have something to brag about.

You were nothing more than a latrine cleaner, if that.

 

[Warrior102]

US Navy 1974-1979
Boot Camp San Diego CA
Firefighting School Treasure Island SF
HTA School Naval Training Station San Diego CA
USS Bryce Canyon AD-36 Destroyer Tender, Pearl Harbor HI
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Aircraft Carrier, North Island NAS Coronado CA
2 Western Pacific Cruises 78 and 79
ETS July 79
US Army 1984-1994
AIT 36L DSGS Level Electronic Switch Repairer School
Top Secret SCI Clearance
HHC 67th Signal Battalion, Ft Gordon GA
Primary Leadership Development Course, Ft Benning Georgia
HHC 26th Signal Battalion, Heilbronn Germany
Staff Planner Course, Heilbronn Germany
Comsec Custodian School, Bad Tolz Germany
July 88 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
March 89 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
US Army Airborne School, Ft Benning Georgia
Advanced International Morse Code School, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase I, Ft Bragg NC, Camp McCall NC
Special Forces Basic Non-commission Officer Course, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase II, Ft Bragg NC, Ft Sam Houston TX
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase III, Ft Bragg NC
Awarded 11B and 18E MOS Classification, Infantry and Special Forces Communications SGT
Persian-Farse Language Course, Ft Bragg NC
Bravo Company 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, Ft Campbell KY
ODA-521 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team
Special Operations Anti-terrorist Urban Warfare School, Ft Bragg NC
Modern Standard Arabic School
Deployed to Kuwait City 91 and 92
ODA-523 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team Deployed to Somalia March 93
United States Embassy, Mogadishu Somalia March 93
Special Forces Advanced Non-commission Officer School, Ft Bragg NC 94
Retired Aug 1994 SFC/E7

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

 

[OldUSAFSniper]

United States Air Force. 1972 to 1981. Security Police Law Enforcement Specialist. Saigon, Omaha, Nebraska and the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

[Warrior102]

United States Air Force. 1972 to 1981. Security Police Law Enforcement Specialist. Saigon, Omaha, Nebraska and the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Law enforcement in Saigon?? Did you work with those "White Mice?"

 

[mudwhistle]

US Navy 1974-1979
Boot Camp San Diego CA
Firefighting School Treasure Island SF
HTA School Naval Training Station San Diego CA
USS Bryce Canyon AD-36 Destroyer Tender, Pearl Harbor HI
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Aircraft Carrier, North Island NAS Coronado CA
2 Western Pacific Cruises 78 and 79
ETS July 79
US Army 1984-1994
AIT 36L DSGS Level Electronic Switch Repairer School
Top Secret SCI Clearance
HHC 67th Signal Battalion, Ft Gordon GA
Primary Leadership Development Course, Ft Benning Georgia
HHC 26th Signal Battalion, Heilbronn Germany
Staff Planner Course, Heilbronn Germany
Comsec Custodian School, Bad Tolz Germany
July 88 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
March 89 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
US Army Airborne School, Ft Benning Georgia
Advanced International Morse Code School, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase I, Ft Bragg NC, Camp McCall NC
Special Forces Basic Non-commission Officer Course, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase II, Ft Bragg NC, Ft Sam Houston TX
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase III, Ft Bragg NC
Awarded 11B and 18E MOS Classification, Infantry and Special Forces Communications SGT
Persian-Farse Language Course, Ft Bragg NC
Bravo Company 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, Ft Campbell KY
ODA-521 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team
Special Operations Anti-terrorist Urban Warfare School, Ft Bragg NC
Modern Standard Arabic School
Deployed to Kuwait City 91 and 92
ODA-523 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team Deployed to Somalia March 93
United States Embassy, Mogadishu Somalia March 93
Special Forces Advanced Non-commission Officer School, Ft Bragg NC 94
Retired Aug 1994 SFC/E7

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

 

[mudwhistle]

Those aren't medals Bush is wearing, dumb fucking idiot.
Their ribbons. Probably unit commendations or something meaningless. If I color I could be precise.
And you claim to have served?
You should know better poser.

So you don't know. You're just spouting out your ass?

Army Commendation Medal Lapel Pin (Model #:2319 ARCOM-LP)

Do you see this guy wearing any "medals"?

When you receive a Medal, you also receive the ribbon that medal stands for. As well as "Permanent Orders" for that medal. Included in those permanent orders were medals for a SFC, a SGT and another SP4 like I was. The entire post attended the ceremony. In the two years I was stationed at Baumholder, I only attended one ceremony where this medal was awarded.

Believe it or not I don't care. I have it. It's mine. I earned it. And you don't have anything. Not even the truth.

Arcoms aren't that important. Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguished Service Cross, they are worthwhile. An Arcom you get for whiping you ass correctly.

 

[Warrior102]

US Navy 1974-1979
Boot Camp San Diego CA
Firefighting School Treasure Island SF
HTA School Naval Training Station San Diego CA
USS Bryce Canyon AD-36 Destroyer Tender, Pearl Harbor HI
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Aircraft Carrier, North Island NAS Coronado CA
2 Western Pacific Cruises 78 and 79
ETS July 79
US Army 1984-1994
AIT 36L DSGS Level Electronic Switch Repairer School
Top Secret SCI Clearance
HHC 67th Signal Battalion, Ft Gordon GA
Primary Leadership Development Course, Ft Benning Georgia
HHC 26th Signal Battalion, Heilbronn Germany
Staff Planner Course, Heilbronn Germany
Comsec Custodian School, Bad Tolz Germany
July 88 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
March 89 Special Forces Selection and Assessment Course, Camp McCall NC
US Army Airborne School, Ft Benning Georgia
Advanced International Morse Code School, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase I, Ft Bragg NC, Camp McCall NC
Special Forces Basic Non-commission Officer Course, Ft Bragg NC
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase II, Ft Bragg NC, Ft Sam Houston TX
Special Forces Qualification Course Phase III, Ft Bragg NC
Awarded 11B and 18E MOS Classification, Infantry and Special Forces Communications SGT
Persian-Farse Language Course, Ft Bragg NC
Bravo Company 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, Ft Campbell KY
ODA-521 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team
Special Operations Anti-terrorist Urban Warfare School, Ft Bragg NC
Modern Standard Arabic School
Deployed to Kuwait City 91 and 92
ODA-523 Special Forces Detachment "A" Team Deployed to Somalia March 93
United States Embassy, Mogadishu Somalia March 93
Special Forces Advanced Non-commission Officer School, Ft Bragg NC 94
Retired Aug 1994 SFC/E7

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

 

[mudwhistle]

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

Are you a Shellback?

 

[High_Gravity]

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

You Navy Guys always get to go to the best places.

 

[mudwhistle]

Hey shipmate - I was on Westpac 78 as well!!! What a riot. I was aboard LPD-5.

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

You must have been on the USS Ogden, so you carried Jarheads.

 

[007]

Who served, and with what unit?

For the cherries and newbies here that aren't aware there's already a thread for this...

http://www.usmessageboard.com/military/50819-attn-veterans.html

... but as admin has already warned some time ago, it's not to be "politicized." So to the children who would drag their partisan crap into the thread, you do so at your own peril.

 

[Warrior102]

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

Are you a Shellback?

No - damn it. We WERE scheduled to hit Australia that cruise, but didn't. After that cruise - I was sent to the East Coast, spent the rest of my days in the North Atlantic/Med.

I was initiated as a Chief, however, back in 86, when initiations meant a shit.

Nowadays, they do PT, since Anchors Aweigh, and talk all this "brother/sister" PC-correct shit.

 

[Warrior102]

Interesting.

I believe that was the year we were tasked with picking up boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia.

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

You must have been on the USS Ogden, so you carried Jarheads.

I was indeed on the Oggie Doggie.
We were in and out of White Beach so many damned times onloading and offloading those guys.
We did have an extended SRA (6 weeks) in Subic which was quite nice... if you know what I mean.

 

[Warrior102]

LOL - I mention Subic Bay, and the pop up ad I am getting now at the bottom of this page is FilipinoCupid.com

 

[mudwhistle]

We didn't partake in that. We were too busy getting shitfaced on Mojo in the PI. What a cruise -

Pearl Harbor, Kwajelein, Eniwetak, Okinawa, Namazu, Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Pusan + Inchon (Korea), Sasebo, Subic Bay.

Are you a Shellback?

No - damn it. We WERE scheduled to hit Australia that cruise, but didn't. After that cruise - I was sent to the East Coast, spent the rest of my days in the North Atlantic/Med.

I was initiated as a Chief, however, back in 86, when initiations meant a shit.

Nowadays, they do PT, since Anchors Aweigh, and talk all this "brother/sister" PC-correct shit.

We went to Singapore because the XO was a wog. Had one hell of an intiation. They tarred and feathered him. I had to kiss the Royal Baby.