List Your Credentials - Military Edition

stateofgrace said:
I am seriously honoured to be amongst such company.

Pleaeeease tell me I am not the only UK or even European ex service or even serving member here, surely there must be more of us.

Anybody?............:)
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Ahhh, you pillow biters were always the silent service, weren't you?


hehehe - From a Birdie.

Dolphin 47.
 
Garrette
  • Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Pay Grade: O-5
  • Affiliation: United States Army and Army Reserves
  • Service: Active Duty 1984 – 1993; Reserves 1993 – Present
  • US Military Academy (West Point) 1984 (H-1 and H-2 for fellow alums who may be interested. Happy 2 has the honor of having the only mascot ever banned from Michie Stadium)
  • Branch (Specialty): Military Intelligence 1984 – 2001; PSYOP 2001 – 2003; Civil Affairs 2003 - Present
  • Positions:
    • V Corps, Airborne Reconnaissance Program Officer/HUMINT Officer
    • Battalion S-1/Adjutant (Personnel Officer)
    • Battalion Motor Officer/Platoon Leader
    • Battalion S-2 (Intelligence Officer)
    • Company Commander
    • Chief, Training Devices Acquisition Office, US Army Intelligence School, Devens
    • Brigade S-3 (Operations Officer)
    • Brigade S-2
    • Analyst, Far East
    • Battalion XO (Executive Officer)
    • National Education Officer
    • Public Safety Officer
  • Locations served (some only for short times, and not including official and unofficial jaunts to other sites like MoD, UK)
    • Korea
    • Frankfurt, Germany
    • Fort Huachuca, Arizona (twice)
    • Denver, Colorado
    • Makalapa, Honolulu, Hawaii
    • Fort Devens, Massachusetts
    • Fort Chaffee, Arkansas
    • Fort Thomas, Kentucky
    • Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio
    • Fort Polk, Louisiana (twice)
    • Riverdale, Maryland
    • Iraq (primarily Baghdad with travel over most of the country)
 
Summary of JREF poster's military credentials

Changes:
  • 26-Jul-2007 Added Hal Bidlack, Nim Chimpsky, Hunstman, and Hans. Stripped down rank table.
  • 27-Jul-2007 Added ARubberChickenWithAPulley, VanillaCone, Lanzy, MortFurd, Thitical Crinker, and Darth Rotor. Converted pay grade table to two columns. Added advice to submitters.
  • 30-Jul-2007 Added Clutch and Garrette.

Note: The data in this list is not verified, and is soley based on information posted in this thread.
In other words, caveat lector.

Counts in the following table are by pay grade. Not all posters listed are members of the U.S. forces, and some that are have not provided full rank details, so the total of the counts is not equal to the number of posters listed.

Summary of U.S. Posters, by Pay Grade
Pay grade | Count || Pay grade | Count
E-1|0||W-4|0
E-2|0||W-5|0
E-3|1||O-1|1
E-4|2||O-2|2
E-5|2||O-3|2
E-6|3||O-4|3
E-7|5||O-5|5
E-8|0||O-6|0
E-9|0||O-7|0
W-1|0||O-8|0
W-2|0||O-9|0
W-3|0||O-10|0

Note to people submitting credentials: The actual file containing all of the submitted data looks like this:
Code: 
J. Random Poster
	Rank: Redshirt (Deathus Muchus)
	Pay Grade: E-0
	Affiliation: United Federation of Planets, Star Fleet
	Service: 2251-2250
	Spent most of service in sick-bay.
Putting your posting in a format similar to this will make pasting it into the list easier. Leave out pay grade if it isn't applicable; put not specified if you want something else left out. (A little program I wrote takes this file and transforms it into a ready-to-post form, sorted by poster ID, including the counts.)

34 people in the list.

Alareth (Mark C. Farrington)|
Rank|OS2
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1991-1999
  • Prior to making rate I served on deck as a seaman and was also crosstrained in various rates such as Radioman, Signalman and Quartermaster due to the small size of my first command, USS Recovery ARS 43.
  • As an Operations Specialist I operated various models of radar from the SPS-64 navagational radar up to the SPY-1 Phased Array that is integral to the AEGIS Combat System.
  • My last command was the Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range in Florida, which was the only location on the east coast of the US where pilots could practice with and drop live ordinance.

apathoid|
Rank|SP4
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1995-1999.
  • MOS 33R/T cross-trained to 68N.
  • Worked in aviation and/with Military Intelligence Corps.
  • Aircraft worked on: OV-1 Mohawk, RC-12 Huron
  • Systems worked: GRCS, SLAR(Side-Looking Airborne Radar), OV-1 Mohawk Commo and Electronics(Avionics), and Trojan Spirit
  • Served overseas 2 years, both in the ROK [Republic of Korea].
  • Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance
  • Air Force JROTC in high school
  • Civil Air Patrol.

ARubberChickenWithAPulley|
Rank|Captain (O-3)
Affiliation|/U.S., Army, Military Intelligence
Service|2003-
  • Parachute School, Battalion S-2, Brigade S-2, Police Intelligence Officer, Plans Officer <=== don't ever do this, it is the most insanely boring (and pointless) job on the planet (plans, that is)

Beachnut|
Rank|Lt Col
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1974-2002
  • Tanker Pilot KC-135

Bob Klase|
Rank|Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CW4)
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1971-1995
  • MW4 actually, but not worth explaining, especially if you're not already familiar with warrant officer ranks.
  • Flew UH-1's, OH-6's, OH-58's from 71-84 (OH-6 in Vietnam). UH-60 (Blackhawk) from 84-95 (including the 1st Gulf War).
  • For purposes of credentials I also have a daughter who's starting her 12th year in the army. Currently SFC but just about to finish the army's Physician's Assistant school and should get commissioned as a 1LT next summer after she finishes the 'internship' (not sure that's what they call it).

Calcas|
Rank|Sgt (E-4)
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|Vietnam era
  • 4 Years USAF as an air traffic controller. Vietnam era vet although I served my time stateside.

Cheap Shot|
Rank|SGT (E-4)
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1976-1980
  • 4 Years one month
  • Crew Chief on RF-4C
  • Shaw AFB, SC

Clutch (Chris Tolmasoff)|
Rank|UT3 (SCW)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|Not specified (currently serving)
  • Currently assigned to NMCB 4 out of Port Hueneme, CA.
  • Also currently in Iraq building stuffs

Darth Rotor|
Rank|Commander (CDR)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1980-2005
  • Flew:
    • In training:
    • T-28B, TH-57, UH-1E, TH-1L (Hueys)
    • Fleet:
    • Sh-2F, SH-60B, UH-60L
    • Flight Instructor in:
    • T-34C, SH-60B
  • JPME/Jointed
  • Worked with Army a lot, with Marines even more, and the USAF more than I cared to. All said and done, good bunch, brothers in arms.
  • NATO job
  • Acquisition Job
  • Too many effing Staff Jobs.
  • Floated about and flew from:
    • CV's (Midway, Saratoga, Independence)
    • DD's (Spru Cans)
    • CG's (Aegis Class, and one Josephus Daniels Class)
    • FF's (Knox Class)
    • FFG's (Perry Class)
  • Landed on USS Missouri, BB-63. Teak decks. Sweet!
  • Campaigns and crap I was involved with:
    • Lebanon
    • Lybia
    • Ops in PI I can't talk about
    • OEF
    • OIF
    • Sharp Guard
    • Joint Endeavour/IFOR/SFOR
  • Best Liberty Port Ever: Tie between Istanbul and Hong Kong (Never got to Australia)
  • Least Favorite Port: Chinhae, South Korea (Never hit Djibouti, yay me)
  • Neatest lunch ever: With the Officers Mess of the Second Regiment of the French Foreign Legion, in an old castle, Calvi, Corsica. They had just come back from some ops in Chad.
  • I must say, it was a hell of a good run and I miss the bonds you take for granted until you leave. Still in touch with a lot of the bros. I lost more friends to aircraft accidents than to combat.

Doubt|
Rank|Spec-4 (E-4) Combat Engineer; 2nd Lieutenant (O-1E) Infantry.
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|December, 1981 to December, 1985; August, 1988 to March, 1992
  • Trained at Ft. Leonard Wood. Dec-81 to March-82.
  • Stationed at Ft. Ord in A Co., 13th Engineer Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. March-82 to November-83.
  • Spent a lot of time building obstacles, mostly out of concertina and barbed wire. Occasionally did demolitions. Spent a month in Korea as part of Team Spirit '83.
  • Stationed in Bamburg, Germany. 82nd Engineer Battalion, 7th Engineer Brigade. Dec-83 to Oct-85 (Home on terminal leave after that.)
  • Trained to build many different types of obstacles and bridges. Lots more demolitions training. Our battalion was to support the 2nd ACR as the covering force for 7th corps. Most of the corps would have been behind us if WWIII had happened.
  • Round 2 (Aug-88 to March-92)
  • Michigan Army National Guard.
  • 1/225 Infantry Battalion.
  • Joined the guard and ROTC the same month. commissioned in '90 and watched most of the 100 hour ground campaign from the Gulf War from the armory with everybody else since we did not get activated. First assigned to run an Anti-armor platoon even though that is really a good job for an experienced 1st Lt. Spent my last year running a rifle platoon which is what I should have been doing in the first place. Resigned when the unit was re-organized into an ordnance battalion.

Garrette|
Rank|Lieutenant Colonel
Affiliation|United States Army and Army Reserves
Service|Active Duty 1984 – 1993; Reserves 1993 – Present
  • US Military Academy (West Point) 1984 (H-1 and H-2 for fellow alums who may be interested. Happy 2 has the honor of having the only mascot ever banned from Michie Stadium)
  • Branch (Specialty): Military Intelligence 1984 – 2001; PSYOP 2001 – 2003; Civil Affairs 2003 - Present
  • Positions:
    • V Corps, Airborne Reconnaissance Program Officer/HUMINT Officer
    • Battalion S-1/Adjutant (Personnel Officer)
    • Battalion Motor Officer/Platoon Leader
    • Battalion S-2 (Intelligence Officer)
    • Company Commander
    • Chief, Training Devices Acquisition Office, US Army Intelligence School, Devens
    • Brigade S-3 (Operations Officer)
    • Brigade S-2
    • Analyst, Far East
    • Battalion XO (Executive Officer)
    • National Education Officer
    • Public Safety Officer
  • Locations served (some only for short times, and not including official and unofficial jaunts to other sites like MoD, UK)
    • Korea
    • Frankfurt, Germany
    • Fort Huachuca, Arizona (twice)
    • Denver, Colorado
    • Makalapa, Honolulu, Hawaii
    • Fort Devens, Massachusetts
    • Fort Chaffee, Arkansas
    • Fort Thomas, Kentucky
    • Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio
    • Fort Polk, Louisiana (twice)
    • Riverdale, Maryland
    • Iraq (primarily Baghdad with travel over most of the country)

Hal Bidlack|
Rank|Lieutenant Colonel (O-5)
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1981-2006
  • 25 years+ of active duty, USAF 1981-2006
  • ICBM launch officer/instructor/commander
  • Pol/Mil officer
  • inst/asst prof/assoc prof USAFA
  • military advisor, US Dept of State
  • Dep Dir, USAF Institute for National Security Studies
  • TDYs of note: Pentagon (START policy) NSC White House (twice)
  • a few other things here and there

Hans|
Rank|Major
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1979-1999
  • Field Artillery with specialities in logistics, nukes and fire support. Airborne, CGSC
  • 13A
  • Forward observer Germany
  • Battalion S-2
  • Battalion S-4
  • Battalion Fire Support Officer Kansas and NTC
  • Brigade Fire Support Officer
  • Battery Commander
  • Reserve advisor West Point, New York
  • Reserve Training Officer
  • Mobilization Officer during Second Gulf War
  • Various other IRR jobs

Hornit|
Rank|Lt. Commander (O-4)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1980-1989
  • Naval Aviator
  • Instructor Pilot in T-2C Buckeye, NAS Kingsville TX.
  • Fleet Experience:
  • Squadron: VA/VFA-82
  • A-7E Corsair II, F/A-18C Hornet, NAS Cecil Field FL.
  • Deployments Aboard USS Nimitz and USS America.
  • 253 Carrier Arrestments (traps)
  • Attended Naval Safety School and Fighter Weapons school.
  • Numerous other schools while active duty.
  • Nuclear delivery pilot (personell reliability program: PRP)
  • Naval Reserve doing the same thing until 1995.

Hunstman (Brister, Thaddeus B.)|
Rank|SGT
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1991-
  • Arkansas National Guard 1991-1994, MOS 91B-Medical Specialist
  • U.S. Army 1994-1997, MOS 91B-Medical Specialist
  • 2 years in Hanau, Germany with 5/7 ADA BN, with 6 months in Saudi Arabia the first half of 2005.
  • 1 year in Ft. Stewart, GA with the 10th CBT EN BN
  • U.S. Army Reserve 1998-2001 MOS 91B-Medical Specialist
  • 489th CBT EN BN
  • Qualified with a Secondary MOS as a 12B-Combat Engineer during this time.
  • In charge of medical seciton/Battalion Aid Station for the battalion.
  • US. Army Reserve 2002-2004 MOS 91B Medical Specialist
  • Assigned to the 90th RRC BN
  • Cross-levelled to the 489th CBT EN BN February of 2003 for deployment to Iraq.
  • Served in Iraq with Tiger Troop, 3rd Calvary; 130th Combat Engineer BN; and 82nd Airborne Div.
  • U.S. Army Reserve 2004-Present MOS 25B Computer Operator/Analyst
  • New MOS awarded based on civillian skills and education; Secondary MOS 68W (formerly 91W, formerly 91B) Health Care Specialist, tertiary MOS 21B (formerly 12B) Combat Engineer.

JimBenArm (James B. Armstrong)|
Rank|EMC(SS)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1973-1987
  • Was trained in Nuclear Power.
  • Served on the USS Pollack (SSN-603) from 75-78.
  • USS Guardfish (SSN-612) from 78-80.
  • Was an instructor at IC class A School from 1980-1983.
  • Decommisioning crew of the USS George Washington (SSBN-598) from 1983-1985.
  • USS Pogy (SSN-647) 1985, then assigned to USS McKee (AS-41).
  • Original rate was IC, in fact I made Chief as an IC.
  • Stupid Navy decided it didn't need IC's as Nukes anymore, and forced us all to convert to EM.

Lanzy|
Rank|Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|Not specified
  • SFC Army BN commo Platoon Sgt.
  • Served: DIA, Pentagon
  • Pershing Missles, Ft. Sill
  • JOPS Duty expert, Yongsan, Korea
  • DCA User Center Leader

leftsergeant|
Rank|Staff Sergeant (E-6)
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force and Army
Service|1966-1970 (USAF), 1977-1988 (Army)
  • USAF, 1966-70, AFSC 57150, Fire Protection Specialist. Recieved college level training in arson investigations. (Mostly for brownie points, but I figured it might come in handy. It did, occassionally.)
  • Stationed at Wheelus Air Base Libya, September 66-April 68. Pope AFB, N.C. April 68-March 70. (Not all-inclusive, but don't ask.)
  • US Army 1977-88, PMOS 94B30, Food Service Sergeant, SMOS 51M30, Fire Protection Sergeant. Stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY, 32nd ADCOM Germany, Madigan Army Medical Center, WA (serious bicycle accident put me out of action for a bit.) Camp Hovey, Korea: Ft Lewis, WA. Medically retired in 1988 as Staff Sergeant (E-6)
  • Currently work part-time in troop training at Ft Lewis.
  • Trained on every weapon I got a chance to handle, plus some explosives. Never know when you might have to grab whatever is available, theirs or yours. My unit at Ft Lewis was part of the High-Tech Test Bed program. I got to ride in the first Humvee on the post. Some of the stuff we tested I never saw again, and hope that was the end of them.

Mince|
Rank|HM (E-4)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1990-1996, 1998-2003
  • 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*.
  • *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.

MortFurd|
Rank|Sergeant (E-5)
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1987-1991

Newtons Bit|
Rank|Cadet Staff Sergeant
Affiliation|U.S., MCJROTC (high school)
Service|not specified
  • Uhh, MCJROTC in high school. I achieved the rank of cadet staff sergeant! The only lasting change imprinted on me from that expierence is that I can no longer stand having long hair. And I call all men with hair longer than 3 inches hippys.

Nim Chimpsky|
Rank|Major
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|active duty May 1987-Feb 1996; Reserves Feb 1996-Jun 2000
  • 1987 Grad, USAFA
  • C-141B Navigator
  • Lead airplane, panama invasion
  • Desert Shield, Desert Storm
  • 5 years Special Ops
  • Safety Officer

Normal Dude|
Rank|SGT / E-5
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|Not specified
  • 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!

Obviousman|
Rank|Officer
Affiliation|Australia, Royal Navy
Service|1985-1995, 2001-
  • I'm still serving military, and in Oz we can't say too much (I even had to take my details down from schoolfriends.com.au).
  • But I'm an Officer in the Royal Australian Navy, a reservist on Continuous Full Time Service (CFTS). That's being back in service exactly like the regulars, except I'm on a fixed term contract. I did my first stint from 1985 to 1995, transferred to the Reserves, then went off to fly as a Mission Co-ordinator with Coastwatch (we're civvies who get contracted to fly the Coastwatch missions for the Customs Service, not Customs Officers). Went back to the Navy in 2001 and have been there ever since.
  • Trained as a Seaman officer (ship driver), Air Traffic Controller, Observer (aircraft navigator). Various sea and shore postings. Currently working as a staff officer in our aviation HQ operational standards section.

Pope130|
Rank|MSGT
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1973-1997
  • 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.

Ranb|
Rank|MM1 (E-6), machinist mate first class
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|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)

Reheat|
Rank|Lt Col
Affiliation|U.S., Air Force
Service|1967-1988
  • Experience - Trainers and Fighter Bombers

Sabrina|
Rank|1LT
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|2001-
  • I started out as a launcher platoon leader for an Air Defense Artillery brigade and moved on to being the battalion S2 (intelligence officer, for those who don't speak military) after a year, as I was the seniormost officer in my battalion branch detailed from Military Intelligence at the time and my battalion commander absolutely RULED at letting officers try positions they desperately wanted to try. I also spent time as the Special Projects Officer and the Brigade Public Affairs Officer before leaving active duty. Oh, and while I was on active duty, I went to Bahrain where I sustained the injury that allows me to claim the title disabled veteran. It wasn't in combat; I was just lifting stuff that was too heavy for me and badly misaligned my spine, but I now suffer degenerative disc disease as a result.
  • Currently I'm in the reserves, serving as my unit's Tactical Intelligence Officer. In my civilian job I work for a consulting firm on a contract for TSA's Office of Intelligence, and I'm having a blast at it.

stateofgrace|
Rank|Petty Officer, Weapons Electrical Mechanic
Affiliation|U.K., Royal Navy
Service|1977-1986
  • Weapons Engineer, Submariner, P and O boats.
  • Served onboard HMSM Porpoise, Ocelot, Oracle and Oberon.
  • I used to know , but due to age and the fog of time, a great deal about submarine weapons systems which were the duel pressure firing system. Weapons I worked on on include Mark 8 anti ship torpedos, Mark 24 anti submarine torpedos and was involved in stingray trials.
  • Received two good conduct medals and left with the rank of Petty Officer, Weapons Electrical Mechanic.
  • That's about it , oh I went down to the Falklands.

Thitical Crinker|
Rank|Electronics Technician (ET2)
Affiliation|U.S., Navy
Service|1982-1988
  • 1982: Boot camp
  • '82-'84: Various electronics schools in San Diego and Great Lakes
  • '84-'86: Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada
  • '86-'88: Guam
  • Six years in the Navy and NEVER stepped foot on a boat.

Unsecured Coins (Jaye Powers)|
Rank|SGT
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1994-
  • Started out in the Reserves as a supply puke. Since the great state of florida lost part of my transcripts from NC I had to redo my senior year, thus when I graduated in 1996 I was the only AIT trained soldier to graduate that night. Woo hoo.
  • After 9 months in the Balkans I went AD in 1998, hooking up as a 19K, Armor Crewmember. I still hold the record for most ridiculously impossible AGTS kill when I popped a BRDM-2 from over 4,600 meters away.
  • Average Table 8 score - 942
  • Trained in every weapon I can get my hands on. Qualified sniper.
  • Currently (surprise!!) a recruiter in North Carolina

VanillaCone|
Rank|Specialist (SP4)
Affiliation|U.S., Army
Service|1991-1995
  • 98G Arabic linguist/analyst
  • Top Secret security clearance
  • Tour: National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD

Vincent Vega|
Rank|Captain
Affiliation|U.S., Army National Guard
Service|Not specified, currently serving
  • Parachute school
  • Armor School (Tank Platoon leader)
  • Artillery battery commander (SP 155mm)
  • Currently an operations officer (Full Time) for the fires battalion (105mm towed) of an Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Z|
Rank|Al - Spc (in current terms, SP4)
Affiliation|U.S., Army Field Artillery, 13P
Service|1990-2001
  • 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.
  • 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...
 
I'm not sure if this has been expressed in the previous pages of this thread, but I just wanted to thank you all for your service. I appreciate your efforts, sacrifices and dedication to keeping us safe.

Many thanks.
 
So, who's the senior officer around here?

Not that I'm a suck-up or anything......
 
uk_dave said:
So, who's the senior officer around here?
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On the list there is a 4 way tie that might be a 5 way tie, plus one caveat:

Reheat (US Air Force), Hal Bidlack (US Air Force), Darth Rotor (US Navy), and I are all O5s (meaning officer, pay grade 5). Darth's rank is Commander; the rest of us are Lieutenant Colonels. Of that group, I appear to be the only one who is not retired.

That's 4 people.

Obviousman, from Oz, is an officer but is restricted from naming his rank. Based on my limited knowledge of the Ozzian military (worked with a Colonel Schollum in Baghdad; fantastic officer and fantastically funny if you got his humor), and an educated guess based on what Obviousman says about his experience here, I'd guess he is either O4 or O5 and so might be tied with us.

The caveat is Bob Klase who is a Chief Warrant Officer 4 (for a brief period a 5 until that was phased back out). Techically junior to even a Second Lieutenant, but as I used to tell young Sergeants aspiring to be Warrants when I was a company commander:

"There may four people on this entire installation who can walk into the garrison commander's office unannounced at any time. MW5 **** (who was the first Military Intelligence Master Warrant and whom I had worked with) is one of them. I ain't. And I never will be."


If we had any Sergeants Major on the list I'd include them in the highest ranking, too, but we don't.

uk_dave said:
Not that I'm a suck-up or anything......
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Why not?

I personally find them refreshing...
 
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I'd like for all of you guys to please put on your full dress uniforms, take a picture, and email them to me.

Thanks :D


I'm not in the military. The closest I came was taking the preliminary tests to become an officer in the Naval Reserve, and scoring a perfect test, but my ex gave me so much crap about it I didn't follow through (I suspect he was jealous, as he lost his ROTC scholarship and branch in to the Corps of Engineers because he couldn't - what's the word? - pass some of his classes, and so never served after 4 years of JrROTC and 4 years of college ROTC)

My grandfather was in the Army in WWI, after lying about his age and joining at age 17 in the last few months of the war. He served in Italy and Germany. Unfortunately, he died when I was about 11, and before I became interested or knowledgeable enough to ask him about his service. He was just "Papa" who chewed his cigars and made me Raisin Bran cereal with fresh peaches in it. I have his original discharge papers. My father was named after him, exact name.

My father was in the Air Force for 24 years, and was a Senior Master Sargent (E-8). He served as tail gunner on B-52s, and we were stationed in lovely places like Minot and Glasgow. I have his discharge papers, which have the same name as my grandfather.

My brother, who has the same name as my grandfather and father, was in the 82nd Airborne and retired about 3-4 years ago. He became a Warrant Officer a few years before he retired (I think he was W-2), and seems to think he was/is equivalent to a commissioned officer, and refers to himself as an officer. His job for several years was a rigger, or supervising the riggers. His wife was a Sargent in the Army. I am going to give him my grandfather and father's discharge papers, since I think it will be cool to have three sets, from three different eras, with the same name.

My oldest son, whom I refer to occasionally as Sailor Boy, joined the Navy as an E-3 two years ago. He is a "Machinist's Mate Nuclear", E-4 Petty Officer, and has been to all the nuclear schools. He serves on a fast-attack sub. He is not going to make a career, however, but has carefully husbanded all his money and bonuses to finish up his degree in mechanical engineering when he gets out.

My youngest apparently plans to spend his life going to "Oz-Fest" concerts and mosh pits, so if any of you fine gentlemen happen to find him, get him to enlist for a few years to grow a brain mature a bit, I will pay for your child's college. OK, maybe not that, but I would buy a least one or two of their textbooks.

I thank you all, by the way.
 
Default D. Xbe
Rank: Civilian
Pay Grade: 4-F
Affiliation: USAF Recruiting Station
Service: June-ish, 2003
Notes:
Congenital heart murmurs mean flying planes isnt exactly the best career choice.
 
Obviousman said:
Ahhh, you pillow biters were always the silent service, weren't you?


hehehe - From a Birdie.

Dolphin 47.
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Hey I missed this one, pillow biter? I take it from your slanderous remarks to a fellow who served in the senior service within the senior service, you are a skimmer. :)

(Skimmer: a chap who skims along the surface).
 
Served- 4years Sayeret Egoz IDF- Sniper - class in commparison to american military would be Sgt.

And this girl can hit you running at full speed from about 8 american football fields away
 
Digest said:
And this girl can hit you running at full speed from about 8 american football fields away
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I had a girlfriend who could throw a spatula around a corner and hit me in the forehead.
 
Digest said:
Served- 4years Sayeret Egoz IDF- Sniper - class in commparison to american military would be Sgt.

And this girl can hit you running at full speed from about 8 american football fields away
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congratulations. you have my attention.
 
Digest said:
Served- 4years Sayeret Egoz IDF- Sniper - class in commparison to american military would be Sgt.

And this girl can hit you running at full speed from about 8 american football fields away
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And if you have kept up with your Krav Maga ontop of that I may just fedex you an engagement ring now :P......please don't take offense just trying to make a funny and I don't mean to be rude.

Served 6 years in the US Army as a qualified sniper. Studied martial arts since I was about 6 (I'm 36 now) , inclusive of 9 years of Krav Maga.

Just think about the first date we can have a nice Rioja, sit infront of a fire and make a Ghillie suit lol ;) .
 
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