List Your Credentials - Military Edition

Mr. Skinny said:
Holy Crap!

I think I know what a BRDM-2 is, but what does AGTS stand for?
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Advanced Gunner Training Systems. It's like a full mock up video game with the replicated inside of the turret as your controller. We were simulating a "me versus the world" scenario and I caught something moving out of a berm waaay down the road. In the M1A2 SEP you have a variety of magnifications to work with, 3x, 6x, 13x, 25x and 50x. When I got a range on him (4,634) normally you would switch it to 50 power, but I kept it in 13 and let one fly.

The AGTS simulates everything, from muzzle droop to sight failure. This was the first time I had ever seen tracer burnout happen, so I couldn't keep track of the round. I thought I missed and lined it up for another shot when it went kaboom.

What my master gunner said next is in no way shape or form reprintable on this forum.
 
No military experience here, but I want to thank every last one of you for defending my freedoms. Heroes, all of you!
 
That's a great story, UC. That sim sounds awsome.

I flew an F-16 sim (this was just a desktop app) with some voice activated controls once (about 1989?) and I was smoked by a bogie inside of 60 seconds, lol. :)


Oh.......salutes to all you GI's!
 
scissorhands said:
I have completed Half Life.
And Medal of Honor Allied Assault also.
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When I first saw those "Army of One" commercials, I just had to give it a try. So I went and logged into a 64 player Battlefield 1942 server running the Desert Combat mod.

I got my ass kicked by the army of 63. :(
 
Mr. Skinny said:
You must be very proud, Bob.
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Sure am. I wasn't thrilled when she quit college after her freshman year to join the army, but it's worked out well.

Mr. Skinny said:
Hey, ever run across a helicopter IP named David Meyer? I think he was a Warrant Officer in Germany in the '90's.
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Not that I recall. I was in Germany from 84-92, but from 87-92 (including a 7 month deployment to the gulf) I was in medevac so didn't meet a lot of non-med pilots.
 
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Vincent Vega said:
How is it different from a Cheif?.
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Not much difference. Chief was 3 different ranks- CW2, CW3 and CW4 (now 4 with CW5). The army tried for years to create CW5 but congress wouldn't approve it. The army finally created MW4 (Master Warrant-4) which didn't require congressional approval since it was considered a designation rather than a promotion and didn't require any money (for higher pay).

So they had boards similar to promotion boards to select CW4's to be designated MW4. MW4's didn't get any more money but were considered senior to all other CW4s, wore a different rank and were supposed to be assigned to designated positions (usually at brigade level and higher).

In the early 90's (92 or 93 IIRC) congress finally approved CW5 and MW4 disappeared. So my DD 214 says MW4 but my ID says CW4 because the last time I got an ID the computers didn't list MW4 as an option.
 
Dumbledore's Army, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1997-present




Seriously, though. Thank you all.
 
grmcdorman said:
If there's enough posters here, do you guys want a fancy table like I did for the wimp standard list-your-credentials thread?

(FYI, I have absolutely no military connections whatsoever. Closest I get is some great-uncles in WWII, one of whom was lost on a Liberator U-Boat patrol in 1944.)
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That would be great, if it's not a lot of work. If it's going to be a pain, don't bother with it, though.
 
4 Years USAF as an air traffic controller. Vietnam era vet although I served my time stateside.
 
Spc Waco Hill (now changed to Tohausen, which means the same thing).

U.S. Army Field Artillery, 13P. Served from 1990 to 2001, in active duty and the Nat'l Guard. Best MLRS FDC computer operator of my time. I once ran our battery fire control out of the back of a Hummer with nothing but a map board, flashlight, and two radios for four days in Korea as an E-3, and had the best fire rate in the battalion.

Duty stations were Ft. Sill, Ft. Bragg, and Camp Essayons, Korea, but also spent some time at 29 Palms, Ft. Benning, White Sands, and a host of other locations. Also did a tour of Robin Sage - that rocked. Field-tested the FDDM and the AFATDS during the end of my tour.

But I never got a chance to go to promotion board - because Sgts don't operate the fire direction systems once they're Sgts. I don't mind though - they paid me $14 grand when I left. :D

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Also, only person in my battalion certified on EVERY piece of communications and computer hardware and software (which hurt them badly when I left); qualified on personal and crew weapons as well as the Automatic Grenade Launcher. What a weapon! And somehow served all those years and never once drove a stick-shift... :D
 
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Alareth said:
This is sort of a spinoff of the Korey Rowe arrested for desertion thread.

There was a quote from Dylan Avery about people being quick to condemn Korey and not having had military service themselves (I'm paraphrasing).
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11 years Navy.

4 years as AT (Aviation Electronics Technician), 7 years as HM (0000 corpsman and 8482 Pharmacy Technician).

San Diego Naval Medical Center
Naval Medical Clinic, Submarine Base, Groton, CT
Naval Air Station, Oak Harbor, WA
NSHS Portsmouth (det.), Portsmouth, VA--Pharmacy School
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, FL--Aviation Electronics School
NHCS Great Lakes, Great Lakes, IL--Corps School
NCRD Great Lakes, Great Lakes, IL--Basic Training

They booted me for high-year tenure*. I wanted to serve and the [rule8]ers wouldn't let me. I think if Rowe did desert (we don't know the circumstances after all), he is a coward.



*High-year tenure is when you get discharged from military service because you have not attained a certain rank by a certain time period. In my case it was that I did not attain E-5 by 10 years. I actually did attain E-5, but I got out of the Navy as an AT and came back as an HM. When I did that, they brought me back as an E-4 and not E-5. I only had two chances to make rank and, obviously, didn't do it. It's still an honorable discharge and they gave me $25,000 for breaking my contract. Not only that, but I am from Illinois and the state is paying 100% of my tuition; plus I am getting GI Bill. Pretty sweet.
 
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I looked at your page

Z said:
Spc Waco Hill (now changed to Tohausen, which means the same thing).

U.S. Army Field Artillery, 13P. Served from 1990 to 2001, in active duty and the Nat'l Guard. Best MLRS FDC computer operator of my time. I once ran our battery fire control out of the back of a Hummer with nothing but a map board, flashlight, and two radios for four days in Korea as an E-3, and had the best fire rate in the battalion.

Duty stations were Ft. Sill, Ft. Bragg, and Camp Essayons, Korea, but also spent some time at 29 Palms, Ft. Benning, White Sands, and a host of other locations. Also did a tour of Robin Sage - that rocked. Field-tested the FDDM and the AFATDS during the end of my tour.

But I never got a chance to go to promotion board - because Sgts don't operate the fire direction systems once they're Sgts. I don't mind though - they paid me $14 grand when I left. :D

ETA:

Also, only person in my battalion certified on EVERY piece of communications and computer hardware and software (which hurt them badly when I left); qualified on personal and crew weapons as well as the Automatic Grenade Launcher. What a weapon! And somehow served all those years and never once drove a stick-shift... :D
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You FDC guys were allways a little...different. ;)
 
OK,
Enlisted in the US Air Force in 1973. Started as a Flight Simulator Technician. Trained on T-33, T-37, T-38, F-4C and F-4E sims at Chanute. Went to Castle AFB on B-52E, F, G and H models. Kunsan Korea on the F-4D. Wright Patterson AFB Flight Dynamics Lab on instrument and display systems prototyping. Back to Castle on the B-52G/H hybrid trainers, and the KC-135A. While there became associated with the AF Museum program, working on fifty-some aircraft types. Nellis AFB on the F-16 till they went contract support. Then to PMEL, general electronics support, small arms instructor and desert survival.
Cross trained to C-130 Flight Engineer. Pope AFB, went to Desert Shield/Desert Storm/Desert Calm, Kurdish relief in Northern Iraq, the Former Yugoslavia, Horn of Africa, Haiti, Central America, 50th Anniversary D-Day Drop and a batch of other places. 87 countries total. I can highly recommend this travel plan. You not only get to see all the places you want to see, you also see the places you don't want to see. To all of you born in first world countries, consider yourselves very lucky.

Enough bragging for now.

Robert G. Klaus, MSGT USAF Ret.
 
US Navy 1983-2003 Nuke 3356/3366

USS Tautog SSN 639 84-87 Westpac, so much fun in PI I got married.
ELT School
USS Jacksonville SSN 699 87-89 Shock Trials (explode bombs next to hull) LELT
PH IMF Hawaii R-5 89-92 RCM/RCSS
USS Wm H Bates SSN 680 WestPac 92-95 EWS/LELT
USS Cavalla SSN 684 WestPac 95-97 LELT
LMDU 16 months of hell on a busted leg / 7 surgeries, got a divorce.
Bangor IMF CIF 99-01 RCT
LIMDU Bangor IMF 01-03, then 4 months of slack time as NEC 0000 then Permanent Disabled List (retired).

Ranb
 
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SGT / E-5 United States Army
MOS 11C2P (Mortar Infantryman)
Units: 2/9 Infantry (Mech) in South Korea, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (82nd Airborne) in Fort Bragg, and 173rd Airborne in Italy.
Combat tours to both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Biggest pucker-factor moment was doing a danger close (150m) fire support mission at night, and I was an E-4 and the primary computer for FDC. Yikes!
 
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