How many years in?

[von Spreuth]

Doohhh. O.K

1984. And I thought I was paid to be the observant one.

[tankie]

Doohhh. O.K

1984. And I thought I was paid to be the observant one.

[Achilles]

I join the Reserves in Canada at 17 in 1988, signed up for the reg's in 1989 July 29 on my birthday at 18 and server 5 more years in the infantry with the 2nd RCR mech division till 1994. And I think I paraded maybe 8 times with my home unit. I moved around a lot as an instructor. Unarmed/armed combat, survival instructor, urban warfare specialist, small arms/marksman instructor. You name it if it was a combat trade I probably taught it. But mostly just the unarmed/armed combat. I was even attached to the SSF 3rd Airborne for a while (only as an instructor I did not re-muster, besides those guys are crazy). Honorable Discharged Master Corporal Aug. 6th 1994.

[von Spreuth]

I moved around a lot as an instructor. Unarmed/armed combat, survival instructor, urban warfare specialist, small arms/marksman instructor. You name it if it was a combat trade I probably taught it. But mostly just the unarmed/armed combat. I was even attached to the SSF 3rd Airborne for a while

Aye. Didn't we all.

[Guest]

4 years active in the USN during nam war. 1966-1970. assigned to westpac. Tad on USS forrestal, then on to USS Newport News and finished tour on an ammo aux. USS Vesuvius. so all my time sea duty...........

[von Spreuth]

so all my time sea duty...........

Hmm. Lucky.

THOSE were the days.

I have mates in the Royal Navy that except for their three day sea training, never see a ship for their whole three year engagement.

[Guest]

Hmm. Lucky.

THOSE were the days.

I have mates in the Royal Navy that except for their three day sea training, never see a ship for their whole three year engagement.

yes it is a waste of time to stay home your entire hitch. seeing the world and other countrie's and cultures is what its all about.
but after i got home it took a few years before i could sit in a rocking chair !!!!!

[von Spreuth]

but after i got home it took a few years before i could sit in a rocking chair !!!!!

Know what you mean. THIS is mine;



Rolls on wet grass under 20 knots.

[Guest]

Know what you mean. THIS is mine;



Rolls on wet grass under 20 knots.

my first time at sea i was sea sick for about 2 days before the adjustment was made. but 1 guy i knew in radar had chronic sea sickness and had to be transferred back to land. not everyone adjusts.

[von Spreuth]

My great Grandfather was at sea for 52 years, with Bibby line, starting in sail, on the far East run. My other Great Grandfather was 30 years at sea, my Grandfather about 40 years, in cluding U-Boats, in the Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, my Father five (WIMP!) Far East run, and me 15 to 20, also Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, (On and off, six months here, three weeks there etc, NOW in the reserve getting in as much as possible), and the ONLY place ANY of us have EVER been sea sick is on the Mersey ferry! AND that is ALL of us.

Strange.

[Guest]

My great Grandfather was at sea for 52 years, with Bibby line, starting in sail, on the far East run. My other Great Grandfather was 30 years at sea, my Grandfather about 40 years, in cluding U-Boats, in the Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, my Father five (WIMP!) Far East run, and me 15 to 20, also Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, (On and off, six months here, three weeks there etc, NOW in the reserve getting in as much as possible), and the ONLY place ANY of us have EVER been sea sick is on the Mersey ferry! AND that is ALL of us.

Strange.

you got a long history of sea faring in your family. well it does get in your blood. i wanted to go to sea since i was a kid. when i got my chance it was some experience. being way out there. not a care in the world. i find a ferry hard to believe. oh well.............

[dave lukins]

My great Grandfather was at sea for 52 years, with Bibby line, starting in sail, on the far East run. My other Great Grandfather was 30 years at sea, my Grandfather about 40 years, in cluding U-Boats, in the Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, my Father five (WIMP!) Far East run, and me 15 to 20, also Arctic ocean and North Atlantic, (On and off, six months here, three weeks there etc, NOW in the reserve getting in as much as possible), and the ONLY place ANY of us have EVER been sea sick is on the Mersey ferry! AND that is ALL of us.

Strange.

Iris or Daffodil?

[von Spreuth]

Overchurch, Woodchurch, Mountwood, daffodil, With my Grand and Greatgrandfathers, obviously some of the REAL old ones as well.

[rj1]

Zero. I thought about going into Navy OCS five years ago during college but decided to be a civilian engineer instead.

The only way I'll serve now is if I get drafted or so pissed off about something going on in the world in the future and I volunteer.

I was born at MCAS Cherry Point if that's worth anything. :))

I'm here because I enjoy discussing the military. I think it's important for civilians to know about it.

yes it is a waste of time to stay home your entire hitch. seeing the world and other countrie's and cultures is what its all about.

I'll pass this ironic story on. My dad did a tour as enlisted in the early 1980s for the Marines, and never got deployed anywhere. A year after his discharge, he gets a job working as an aircraft mechanic for the Naval Aviation Depot there at Cherry Point. Spends his career there and eventually becomes a Planner & Estimator. Then Iraq is going to start in 2002 and the Navy/Marines need NADEP employees there to work on their aircraft. So he goes as the guy that makes sure the planes can fly the next mission and also figure out how to fix all the complicated mechanical mishaps and problems that occur.

Enlists in the Marines, never deployed.
Becomes a civilian, gets deployed. :))

[vyshka]

1991 - 1995.

Most of it spent with the 1st Cav Division at Ft. Hood. I spent a year in Monterey at DLIFLC in the Russian course.