Attn: Veterans

[Hossfly]

U.S.Army

1957-1978

Infantry grunt

1SG(Ret)

"Agent Orange killed me in Viet Nam. I just haven't died yet"

 

[Zander]

US Navy 1982-1986

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

Branch: US Navy

Date/s: Jul 1964 - Jul 1968

Rank: ETN2 / E-5

Unit: 'A" School Treasure Island, USS Hopewell (DD-681)

Other info: Two deployments . . . 1966 & 1967 . . Vietnam

 

[Kondor3]

Branch: US Army (RA)

Dates: Jul 1970 - Mar 1972

Rank: SP/4

Unit: 598th Trans Co, 28th Trans Btn, Turley Barracks, Mannheim, Germany

Other Info: Primary MOS 64B20 - (Heavy Veh Oper [semi tractor-trailer driver])
Secondary MOS 71H20 - (Personnel Specialist [company clerk])
Enlisted for 3, early out in 2 (21 mos) - Honorable - due to RIF due to 'Nam winding down

 

[dadsgm]

US Army
4 March 1962 to 30 September 1988
Sergeant Major (SGM)
US Army Armor School, 3-33 Armor, Armor Cav Ft Hood, TX, Korea, 8th ID NCO Academy, 3D Armored Div NCO Academy, 1St Armored Div NCO Academy, 1St Army Readiness Region, plus two others.

 

[EriktheRed]

U.S. Army 1989-1996

E-5, 96B

Ft Huachuca, Ft. Riley, Ft. Leo. Wood

Fort Lost-in-the-Woods was where I took basic.

 

[Missourian]

U.S. Army 1989-1996

E-5, 96B

Ft Huachuca, Ft. Riley, Ft. Leo. Wood

Fort Lost-in-the-Woods was where I took basic.

HUA! We might actually have met if you had any leave.

 

[Missourian]

Wow, I got kidded about not fucking up or I'd get sent to Adak, Alaska or Bumfuck Egypt. How did you wind up in Antarctica as an AT and not on a carrier somewhere?

Just dumb luck I guess.

That's actually pretty cool. Not many people can lay claim to having set foot on Antarctica. On the other hand, the extreme environment and lack of being able to get away from it all would suck. Kind of like being at sea, but without any port calls.

But there was a women behind every tree.

That's funny...my old man said the same thing about Thule AFB, Greenland.

Not a tree in sight...

 

[EriktheRed]

U.S. Army 1989-1996

E-5, 96B

Ft Huachuca, Ft. Riley, Ft. Leo. Wood

Fort Lost-in-the-Woods was where I took basic.

HUA! We might actually have met if you had any leave.

Not likely...I took the Greyhound directly from post to Ft. Silly the day after graduation.

 

[SixFoot]

SGT(ret)

U.S. Army Reserves, 25 Jan 2008 - 3 Jan 2011
12N Heavy Equipment Operator
Ft. Leonard Wood
Operation Iraqi Freedom IX-X

U.S. Army, 4 Jan 2011 - 27 Aug 2013
11B Infantry Rifle Squad Leader
Fort Polk
Operation Enduring Freedom X-XI

 

[Coyote1880]

USMC

42-46

JASCo

642

I was told I was a private, but in 1982 they told me that I had been a corporal

 

[protectionist]

US Army, Fort Dix, NJ, 1964 - 1965

US Army/New York Army National Guard 1965 - 1969.

102nd Army Corps of Engineers Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division

MOS > 12B20 Combat Construction Specialist

Spec 4

Anyone interested in the military see >

 

[WinterBorn]

US Navy 1979 - 1983

USS James Madison SSBN 627
USS Savannah AOR-4

 

[Damaged Eagle]

I'm sorry. I won't give this kind of information on an open forum, and most likely on a private forum also, out for security reasons for myself and my family. The most I will give is...

Damaged Eagle: US Armed Forces, Retired

*****SMILE*****

 

[MaryL]

US Navy 1979 - 1983

USS James Madison SSBN 627
USS Savannah AOR-4

An oiler and a submarine? How does that work? My brother was on the USS Ticonderoga, CV-14 on the flight deck. (gulf of Tonkin in 64).

 

[WinterBorn]

US Navy 1979 - 1983

USS James Madison SSBN 627
USS Savannah AOR-4

An oiler and a submarine? How does that work? My brother was on the USS Ticonderoga, CV-14 on the flight deck. (gulf of Tonkin in 64).

Just lucky? lmao

 

[MaryL]

US Navy 1979 - 1983

USS James Madison SSBN 627
USS Savannah AOR-4

An oiler and a submarine? How does that work? My brother was on the USS Ticonderoga, CV-14 on the flight deck. (gulf of Tonkin in 64).

Just lucky? lmao

Or unlucky.I just asked him, MY brother never saw the north
Vietnamese actually attack even though he was there, what are you going to do with that? I just asked him? He didn't see the PT boats . Damn. The whole NV PT gulf of Tonkin thing was just a lie?

 

[1treedancer]

6/28/1966-7/07/1970
Primary MOS =0811
Secondary MOS= 8531
Highest rank attained= Lance Corporal

 

[waltky]

Prudential takin' advantage of Veterans' surviving family members...

VA Unaware of Prudential 'Profiteering' off Veteran Insurance Payouts
Oct 05, 2015 | The Veterans Affairs Department was not aware that Prudential Insurance encouraged its counselors to keep casualty pay-out monies in-house as a way to boost company profits, or that its agents were schooled to try to change the minds of surviving family members who sought a traditional lump-sum payment.

Prudential's practices came to light last week with the court-ordered release of internal company documents to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which joined in a class-action lawsuit against Prudential in 2010. Prudential is under contract to handle Sevicemember Group Life Insurance and Veterans Group Life Insurance policies. Among the documents was one detailing a plan to increase company profitability by retaining control of money that would normally be awarded to survivors in a lump sum. Another revealed the company trained personnel on how to deal with survivors who insisted on a lump-sum payout rather than leaving the money with Prudential in "Alliance Accounts" that provided the beneficiary with a fraction of the interest that Prudential would gain from it.

VFW National Commander John A. Biedrzycki Jr. last week called for an independent investigation of the VA and the Alliance Accounts, saying the department turned a blind eye to Prudential's profiteering off beneficiaries. "The documents speak for themselves, and they show that Prudential initiated this program for the money that could be gained, not to help grieving military families -- and the VA knew all about it," he said at the time. "For an insurance company to profit off the dead is sickening, but for our own government to turn a blind eye to profiteering is something entirely else." On Monday, VA spokesman James Hutton told Military.com that VA knew nothing of Prudential's financial strategy related to the accounts. "VA does not know how Prudential trained its employees to communicate with beneficiaries about the advantages of retained asset accounts prior to 2010 or whether the company believed that such accounts would improve its earnings," Hutton said in a statement.

Bloomberg Business, which reported on the accounts in 2008, said Prudential was paying 1 percent interest on the Alliance Accounts while earning nearly 5 percent on its corporate funds. Hutton said that following the Bloomberg and other media reports on the Alliance Accounts the VA mandated administrative changes to "ensure that VA beneficiaries receive clear and complete information regarding their life insurance benefits." Additionally, he said, VA ordered claim forms modified to require that beneficiaries be able to choose among four clearly defined payment options and updated SGLI and VGLI information online and in handbooks, including a better explanation of the Alliance Accounts and other disbursement payment options. The department also began requiring Prudential to contact all beneficiaries whose Alliance Accounts were still open after six months to make sure they understood the terms of the arrangement and that there were other payout options available, he said.

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[Hutch Starskey]

US Army

1987-1992

E4-p

3rd Infantry Division- Germany

31M, 31Fv4