Shmavis Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Ah, hell. I'll jump on the bandwagon. Four years in the Army for me. As I believe someone else said, "Proud to have served. Happy to be out." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 1 year military service in German Bundeswehr, Jägerbattallion 66, 5. Kompanie, 120mm mortars 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 US Armor officer 87-91 (1/35 Armor) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 a good scale that Originally posted by 76mm: US Armor officer 87-91 (1/35 Armor) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 1st Lt. in the Army, branched MP, in the first Gulf War. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 1 year german Bundeswehr, Jägerbataillon 4./292 (light infantry), german-french brigade, sniper and radio operator. The only soldier in the company whose official certificate contained the words "humorous". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Leopard Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I wish I can said but can not join force due to my hearing impaired however I took ROTC classes for fun and officer liked my camping skill(survival) even ask me show students how to clean rabbits on our field trips. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BARMAN1950 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 US Army, 1947 to 1954. I had a couple of glorious years in Japan during the occupation with the 11th AB Div & the 1st Cav Div. The Korean war came along and screwed up my vacation in Japan. Went to Korea as a Cpl BAR man. MOS was 4745 (Lt weapons Infantry) now called 11 Bravo. I ended up as an SFC platoon Sgt. After Korea I was a target during the Atomic tests in Nevada in 1952. Went to Germany in early '53 after Ranger scool at Fort Benning. Loved the German Beer and German girls. Finally called it quits in '54, I think that we spent as much time in the field in Germany as I did in Korea. Being a civilian is not too bad! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-bomb Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 us marines served in the infantry for four years. Lco 3/2 2nd mar div. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 ya, 1/72 Armor and 1/48 armor didn't seem like enough to fight off the Soviet horde, but 1/35 seemed to do the trick... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerousdave Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 US Army National Guard (Oregon), 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment. Light Infantry, 11B. 5 years ('86-'91). M60 gunner for most of that time, but team leader for the last year or so. We weren't deployed for Gulf 1. But that unit just got back recently from a year in Baghdad. Things have indeed changed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 The concept of "fight as you are" is even more so now a days. If the US were to go to war with anybody that had the ability to interdict supplies from China (oh, like China!) we'd have few replacements for the high tech stuff as soon as the onhand supply ran out. Little know secret is that although our nice toys are supposed to be made here in the USA, they ain't. Sure, the contractors are USA companies (or shells), but that doesn't mean the stuff is made domestically. Remember, winning bidders are low bidders The good news is that the likely enemy is in even worse shape than the US when it comes to supporting a protacted war. They don't even have enough toys to make it to Round Two, then after that they'd have to put most of them towards keeping their own people from taking them out. That is if they don't starve to death first. Yup, large scale warfare would be messy for everybody. Probably why we haven't seen it happen since WWII. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Oh, and if anybody played the old MB board game "Fortress America" they would see the limited ability to wage war portrayed quite well. If the OPFOR didn't score a victory against the inferior US forces by x turn, they wouldn't ever since the'd get no more reinforcements due to exhaustion of supply/capacity. Which made the game not very enjoyable after a few times played. Hopefully our world leaders have played the same game (in whatever form) and found the ending equally unsatisfying. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbott Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I like this game better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwagner Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 3 years, 19D Cavalry Scout Now back to enjoying civilian life. Played CMBO a lot in the months before I left for Fort Knox. Didn't play it much while I was in. Decided to check it out again today... found my manual, can't find my cds... still looking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMLE Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Royal Air Force Medic 1986 - 98. Attached to 845 Naval Air Squadron for casualty evacuation Bosnia and Croatia 1994. Bosnia and Croatia again in 1995 with 24 Airmobile Brigade. Also had a fun 6 weeks in 1996 with the USMC at New River, North Carolina during Exercise Purple Star. And not so fun 4 months on a mountain top on West Falkland in 1991/2! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillweed Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 POMCUS, thats what I was thinking of Prepositioning Of Material Configured in Unit Sets 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiloIndiaAlpha Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Spent several years working for UK military, as a civilian scientist, involved in running Joint and Combined computer assisted exercises with USACOM. We used the JTC ( http://alsp.ie.org/alsp/ ) to run combined US/UK exercises at 3 star level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Originally posted by mattwagner: 3 years, 19D Cavalry Scout Now back to enjoying civilian life. Played CMBO a lot in the months before I left for Fort Knox. Didn't play it much while I was in. Decided to check it out again today... found my manual, can't find my cds... still looking. BFC is really good about shipping replacement disks - I lost my CMBB disk during a move and they were able to quickly replace it. I think you wanna talk to Maddmatt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Military brat. 1976 Basic Training (Fort Knox), ROTC UCLA, they changed the obligation from 5 years to 7 years. Having got a taste of Military life, a good look at my fellow cadets (some of whom I would not want to go hunting with), and with absolutely no guaranty of MOS I refused to sign the contract, despite pressure from the staff. Hardest/best decision I ever made. DavidI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I was in ROTC in college and in the Guard at the same time, as I really wanted to be an officer and lead a tank platoon in Korea. Only trouble was there were no guarantees about branch assignments, no guarantees of available schools (airborne would have been fun) and 90% of the cadets were people that had seen Saving Private Ryan one too many times. I left at the start of my MSIII year, right before I had to sign the contract, along with nearly every other prior-service cadet. Wasn't a tough choice at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redcon-5 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 I a tanker. Played with the First Cav 95'-97' then came home to do ROTC, wrong move there. But I got to spend the last 6 years with a good NG armor unit, (we had about 75% vets, and most of the Company Commander's were mustangs). I'm out and if they ever let civi's with beer coolers have jobs as tanker I'll take it. No combat for me I just got to stand at a airport looking pretty, (they would let me take my tank) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 US Marine since May 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Congrats, Wacky! Whats your MOS? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Originally posted by fytinghellfish: Congrats, Wacky! Whats your MOS? 9901-TBS bitch We turn in final MOS selections Wed. I should find out what I get before Thanksgiving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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