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1987- Taken On Strength, The Calgary Highlanders Regimental Pipes and Drums, rank Private

1988-Basic Military Training/General Military Training, Southern Alberta Militia District Battle School - rank, Private

1988 - BANDCON '88, Wainwright Alberta - rank, Private

1988 - Qualified Level 1 and Level 2 Piper

1989 - Promoted Corporal

1989 - NOVA SCOTIA INTERNATIONAL TATTOO - rank, Corporal

1990 - SCOTTISH DIVISION BEATING RETREAT, Horse Guards Parade, London, England & PRESENTATION OF QUEEN'S COLOUR BY H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II, McMahon Stadium, Calgary - rank, Corporal

1991 - QL4A Band Administration Course, CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Borden, Ontario

1995 - Transferred to Administration Company, The Calgary Highlanders and remustered to Finance Clerk, rank, Corporal

1996 - Completed Force Mobile Command Driver Wheeled Course - rank, Corporal

1997 - Finance Clerk trade abolished, remustered as RMS Clerk

1999 - awarded CANADIAN FORCES DECORATION for 12 years service and good conduct (ie "12 years undetected crime")

2000 - Completed Level 1 Resource Management Support Clerk, CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION, Borden, Ontario - rank, Corporal

2001 - Transferred to "A" Company, The Calgary Highlanders, Company Clerk, - rank, Corporal

2002 - Awarded membership in THE CLAN OF THE GALLANT CANADIANS, in the rank of Henchman

2003 - Transferred to "B" Company, The Calgary Highlanders, - rank, Corporal

Still only qualified technically as a private but I wear two hooks and get paid at the highest Incentive Pay Category in that rank. There's No Life Like It.

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It's that time of the year again huh?

Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps 1989-1993

Boot Camp: San Diego, Platoon 2073, Hotel Co. 2nd Battalion.

Basic Helicopter Course, NAS Millington TN

Naval Aircrewman Candidate School (Water & Land Survival) Class 9022, NAS Pensacola.

CH53A/D School, TME-32, MCAS Tustin, CA

6113 CH53A/D Flight Line Mechanic OJT with HMT-302

Operation Desert Shield & Desert Storm with HMH-462: Al Jubayl, Tanajib, Lonesome Dove & Kuwait City International (Nov 90 - Mar 91)

Operation Restore Hope, Somalia with HMH-363: Mogadishu & Bale Dogle (Dec 92 - Apr 93)

3 or 4 WTI's in Yuma, a couple touch and go's at 29 Stumps & a frozen week at Bridgeport.

I was a mechanic / door gunner / janitor / fire watch stander / working party fodder / mess duty "volunteer" & part time unofficial humvee, 5 ton & equipment "borrower"

Gyrene

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July 1995: Joined Illinois Army Guard A/1-131 Inf

June 1996: OSUT Infantry 11B, Fort Benning. B/1-19 Inf.

July 1997: OPFOR Augmentee, NTC (TF Ripper IIRC - actually a lot of fun)

July 1998: OPFOR Augmentee, CMTC Germany (drank more than fought)

June 1998: Attached to 1-106 Avn for BLUFOR JRTC rotation (with Hawaiian & Samoan 29th Infantry Brigade - lots of fun!)

January - October 2000: Volunteered for duty in ARCENT-Kuwait supporting Op Desert Spring. Took off from Kuwait one hour before the USS Cole was hit. The time I spent over there was easily the best time of my life, believe it or not.

July 2001: Retired. :cool:

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US Army 1974-1978.

Combat Engineer assigned to 23rd Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. Left Germany in Dec 77. Sent to Fort Sill to make concrete pads for Gun Bunnies. Let Fort Sill to live a warm life in Texas.

Was an M60 gunner, M113 driver, demolition specialist, Colonel's driver, Bn Mail Clerk and Squad Leader. In that order.

Panther Commander

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US Navy 1982-1988

Nuclear Qualified Machinist's Mate

Engineering Laboratory Technician

Went to MM school in Great Lakes, IL; Nuclear Power School, Orlando Florida; Nuclear Power Training Unit, Balston Spa, NY.

Lots of seatime on USS Nimitz (CVN-68) with a couple Med cruises, a North Atlantic cruise, including a home port change from Norfolk to Bremerton, WA and plenty of sea trials.

Haven't been on anything larger than a pontoon boat since.

BDH

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Joined US Army in 1987 after screwing up 2 semesters in engineering college.

Basic Training at Ft. Dix, NJ .Where I learned to blend in.

Stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma where I was a 13B (cannon crewman on 105 and 155's)

Sent to Desert Storm where we became really good at shoot&scoot ;)

After desert Storm I took EOD training. (long story, and basically falls to me being an idiot and looking for extra hazard duty pay).

Then I proceeded to Ft. Benning and compleated jump school. And Was stationed at Ft. Bragg for a short while before leaving the Army.

I was called back up after 9/11.

Went to Afganistan where I was with the 82nd Airborne once again, until I broke my ankle and messed up my knee coming out of a helo.

Guess thats about it.

Lorak

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Need to get some Blue in to this thread!

Commisioned a 2Lt in May 85.

Went to Nav school and then to my first operational unit flying KC-135s.

Selected for Pilot training in 1989.

KC-10 Pilot ever since with staff tours interspersed. I have a bi tover 4000 hours in the KC-10, about 700 of which is combat time flown since 9/11.

Now stationed in San Antonio where I'm busy flying a desk and not deploying. About 20 months from retirement.

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USMC, 1982-1986, E-4 Corporal

MOS: 0231 Intelligence Specialist

Boot: MCRD San Diego, Plt 3095

Intel school: Little Creek, VA

1st Duty Assgmt: Camp Courtney - Okinawa, Japan

2nd Duty Assgmt: 29 Palms, CA

No military action at all, so I left the Corps and became a cop in L.A. for 4 years. Moved back to Texas and now I sit on my butt all day making web pages. :D

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USMC 1988-1993

I went to boot on the Island then to TN for A school, spent my 5 years as an CH-46 Chrewcheif and Machanic. My squadron HMM-164, as part of the 15th MEU, did the initial invasion for "Operation Restore Hope". After the Marines I went to Penn State got a degree in Aerospace engineering and now I'm back working with the Marines :D (as a civilian engineer) on a rotorcraft flight test program.

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RAF section of my school's Combined Cadet Force! But unlike Wisbech_lad's experience above there was no opt-out clause. I joined the RAF section because we got to go inside "to learn aeronatics" when it rained. The squaddies had to keep square-bashing, while the Navy section wore bell-bottom trousers that didn't look good in any kind of weather.

Closest I came to action was the stampede for the chow line at weekend camps, and I hope I'm properly grateful for never being called to do more. I remember getting a half day off school to watch the fleet leaving for the Falklands.

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1979 joined Canadain Military as Officer Cadet, destined to join the Navy, soon came to my senses and quit after finishing basic officer training and get a degree in Civil Engineering.

1997 Other people having their mid life crisis buy a sports car or have an affair, I, however, Join the Army Reserve. More specifically, the Artillery, 20 Fld in Edmonton, Alberta as a Private. I discover that for some reason they won't accept my basic training from 18 years ago as valid, and I have to go through it all again. Now currently a Bombadier (Corporal), qualified as 2IC on a gun, and Recce and Command Post technician. And am probably the only person in the army only qualified to drive an Iltis, and nothing else; which is really useful when our main vehicle is a gun tractor.

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Originally posted by Gadzilla:

USMC 1988-1993

I went to boot on the Island then to TN for A school, spent my 5 years as an CH-46 Chrewcheif and Machanic. My squadron HMM-164, as part of the 15th MEU, did the initial invasion for "Operation Restore Hope". After the Marines I went to Penn State got a degree in Aerospace engineering and now I'm back working with the Marines :D (as a civilian engineer) on a rotorcraft flight test program.

Were you on a float when you went to Somalia? We C5'd in.

We were both in Tustin at around the same time! I was in flightline in the Screw & 363 a couple of line shacks down from yours and across the way from you guys in Hangar 1. (Unless I'm mistaken and you were out of Hangar 2)

Gyrene

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Originally posted by Roborat:

1979 joined Canadain Military as Officer Cadet, destined to join the Navy, soon came to my senses and quit after finishing basic officer training and get a degree in Civil Engineering.

1997 Other people having their mid life crisis buy a sports car or have an affair, I, however, Join the Army Reserve. More specifically, the Artillery, 20 Fld in Edmonton, Alberta as a Private. I discover that for some reason they won't accept my basic training from 18 years ago as valid, and I have to go through it all again. Now currently a Bombadier (Corporal), qualified as 2IC on a gun, and Recce and Command Post technician. And am probably the only person in the army only qualified to drive an Iltis, and nothing else; which is really useful when our main vehicle is a gun tractor.

Wow. What's the maximum age you can be to join the Canadian Army? And I know that women are allowed in combat arms, how often do they actually make it into a squad?
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Wow. What's the maximum age you can be to join the Canadian Army? And I know that women are allowed in combat arms, how often do they actually make it into a squad?

I think there's no age limit in the reserve, as long as you can do your basic training and pass your qualifications for the job.
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1987 - 1997, U.S. Army

- Ft. Dix, NJ for Basic

- Ft. Monmouth, NJ for AIT (71M10 - Chaplain Asst.)

HHB DivArty, 25th Inf Div (Light)

Schofield Barracks, HI

HHD 324th FSB, 24th Inf Div (Mech)

Ft. Benning, GA

HHC 2-327th Inf, 101st Airborne (Air Assault)

Ft. Campbell, KY

Edit - Almost kicked out of AIT for lack of typing skills.

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