ng cavscout Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 good point Gunz, I agree and will stop contributing to the unpleasantness. edited to remove caustic comment 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robplumm Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 11A = Infantry Officer. Amazed how many times I get asked that... Yup...out of Carson. Strykers for 2ID are out of Lewis. They're around here somewhere, right now. I cuss em every time I see em drive by..usually because they're running my guys off the road or almost hitting some National Police guys. That and they've hit so many walls in the neighborhood I patrol and have to take the backlash for...friggin strykers... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Dick Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Well, could be worse. If you were sharing an AO with us Bradley guys, any wall we "bumped into" would be a pile of bricks. Oops. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Navy Seabees Combat Construction 96-02 NMCB5 Fort Leonard Wood, MO Port Hueneme, CA Puerto Rico, Camp Moscrip, Roosevelt Roads Vieques, operation eastern access Okinawa, Camp Shields, USMC Jungle warfare training with short trips to... guantanamo korea alaska leavenworth...jk .50 cal gunner, FO, comms, NBC, Jungle Warfare, range coach, and all around good guy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robplumm Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Originally posted by Bradley Dick: Well, could be worse. If you were sharing an AO with us Bradley guys, any wall we "bumped into" would be a pile of bricks. Oops. It is with the Strykers, too. They'll come in, conduct a raid and leave. Then I come in on my normal patrol and have to deal with the LN pointing at the wall "Why Mister?!?" *sigh* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_Major_Jerkov Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Originally posted by robplumm: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Bradley Dick: Well, could be worse. If you were sharing an AO with us Bradley guys, any wall we "bumped into" would be a pile of bricks. Oops. It is with the Strykers, too. They'll come in, conduct a raid and leave. Then I come in on my normal patrol and have to deal with the LN pointing at the wall "Why Mister?!?" *sigh* </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Finnish Army 2006-2007, conscript I served in Utin laskuvarjojääkärikomppania / Kaartin jääkärirykmentti & Reserve officer school I was first trained to be a paratrooper in a special unit but broke my ankle in a jump and this later got me transferred to a scout unit. Rank 2nd lieutenant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tc237 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 "Why Mister", "for baby"I still hear that in my dreams. --------------------- Question for the Fins, When my unit was deployed to Macedonia in the '90s on a UN mission, we had the pleasure of serving with a Finnish unit (FinCoy IIRC). The Finns I talked to said they weren't an actual active army unit, but had been recruited specificly for the UN mission. Some of the guys had extensive experience and prior deployments, others had recently signed up. (I did have a nice long discussion about hockey, they could not stop raving about Teemu Selanne, for good reason). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikko H. Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 The Finns I talked to said they weren't an actual active army unit, but had been recruited specificly for the UN mission. Some of the guys had extensive experience and prior deployments, others had recently signed up.Yup, that's how Finland recruits the UN peace keepers. Up until very recently, Finnish Army did not have any standing combat-ready military units (border guard is a different thing altogether and is under the Ministry of Interior), as the peace-time army units were solely conscript-training organizations. Recruiting UN peacekeepers from reservists had the bonus of deploying men and women who had various civilian professional skills that came very handy in peacekeeping duties, like construction and medicine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USTanker Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 12A US Army armor officer 1989-1993 US Military Academy West Point, NY 1993-1997 2-34 AR BN/1 BDE/1 ID Ft Riley, KS 1997-1998 USFK Theater Staff Yongsan, South Korea 1998-2000 1-32 AR BN/3 BDE/2 ID Ft Lewis, WA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zemke Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Originally posted by sgtgoody (esq): </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Zemke: US Army and National Guard 1982-Present 45th IN BDE and 1/4 IN OPFOR Served as IN Platoon Leader Scout Platoon Leader Support PL Bn S-4 IN Company Commander CAV Troop Company Commander BDE HHC Company Comander Operations Officer Deployed to Afghanistan 2003-2004...Trained ANA Deployed to Afghanistan 2006-2007...Trained ANP How long have you been in 1/4? I was in C Co from 97 to 2000. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Guess I'm a bit late for the party, as always... 1993-1994 Jägerbataillon 292 (light infantry), german-french brigade, sniper and radio operator. I'm probably one of the few soldiers who's got the word "humorous" in his official army certificate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 Was that a characterization of your career? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet67 Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 ParaBellum, better "humorous" than "posthum(or)ous". My wannabe credentials: 1987-88 Australian Army Reserves 12/16 Hunter River Lancers Mech inf in good old M113s 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travh20 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Originally posted by sgtgoody (esq): </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by travh20: A and B co. 3-14 Inf 10th MNT Div 92-95 deployed to Somalia and Haiti Any chance you knew a guy named Hule (can't remember exactly how to spell it but it is pronounced Hool, rhymes with cool)? I think he was in A Co, would have been a private at the time. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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