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For all military folks (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CG, NG, Reserve) past and present, I have a couple of AR-15s for you. **WINNERS in 1st post** Login/Join 
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Thank you for your generosity! Please count me in, I would love to share some stories from my time with the USAF. Smile
 
Posts: 550 | Location: Texas | Registered: November 15, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Please count me in. Not sure I ever did anything special that is worth a story but I did serve 1972 to 1994. I enjoyed it I hated it sometime all at the same time. Got to see many places that make me glad I live here in this country. Thanks for the chance.
 
Posts: 991 | Location: UP of Michigan | Registered: October 21, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Told cops where to go for over 29 years…
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At least 4 generations of my family have served. My grandfather in the Army, my father in the Navy, me in the Marines, and now my son currently serving in the Air Force.

Please do NOT enter me in the Karma. Grand dad is gone, Dad has already handed down his firearms, I am all set for AR’s, and my son has a Mosin Nagant he is partial to. We good!


Just want to say thanks once again to 12131 for his tremendous generosity and recognizing the Veterans.






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Posts: 10920 | Location: Western WA state for just a few more years... | Registered: February 17, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Count me in. Dad WW II vet. Fought in Normandy and Battle of the Bulge. Member of greatest Generation. Dad had untreated PTSD. Gave me a copy of GET TOUGH ARMY COMBAT TRAINING MANUAL in sixth grade. Pics of how to strangle and kill Japs and Nazis. A little overwhelming for a ten year old. I thought he wanted me to kill the other kids pushing me around. Now I know that was where his head was at ten years after the war. On troop ship to Japan when Truman dropped the A bomb. If not, I would not have been born.
 
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Rule #1: Use enough gun
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Thank you for your incredible generosity. Please allow me to enter for my daughter, posing here in one of Saddam's palaces...




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Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush

 
Posts: 14826 | Location: Birmingham, Alabama | Registered: February 25, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Fantastic karma 12131. I don't usually chime in but this one's way too good.

USAF/MiANG - 1979 - 1984
USN/USNR-R 1988 - 1993

Dad is retired USAF, Son is retired US Army.

Thanks for the chance.


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Posts: 3999 | Location: Colorado | Registered: August 24, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Wow!! What an incredibly generous karma!! I served in the United States Navy from 1988-2006, but please don’t include me as I’m truly fortunate and have more than my share of EBRs.

Here’s to hoping it goes to someone who needs a rifle to clean today!


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Thanks for the chance.

U.S. Navy 1983-2008


A much younger me in Boot Camp.


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In Please. My Father was a well decorated WWII vet. And carried the pride of his service and his war related injuries with a quiet grace till his war related death 61 yrs later. He could recite his rifle's serial # occasionally to prove he still remembered it. Said that was the # used for everything.One of his medals was the crossed rifles. He seldom talked about his experiences and tears would fill his eyes when he rattled off the names of his war buddies who never came home. He like many of his generation espoused that the only true Hero's were dead on the battlefield, having giving their all for their friends and country. But he was and is a Hero and Patriot to me for what he did and endured.
 
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I would love to enter this karma. Thank you for your kind generosity.

Me - Army National Guard, Army, and US Army Reserves. 1983-1993. Enlisted in the Guard after graduating high school to help pay for college tuition and after taking ROTC classes my first year I applied for and was awarded a 3 year ROTC scholarship. Ended up attending Chemical Officer Basic and was a platoon leader, maintenance officer and NBC officer.

Family members, too numerous to list all - lost one of my mother's brothers on Iwo Jima (USMC), 2 other uncles in WWII and Korea in the navy and great, great...grandfather and his brother served in the Revolutionary War and are on the muster rolls at Valley Forge - they served in the 8th Virginia (Capt Jonathan Clark - older brother of George Rogers Clark). Also had numerous relatives who all fought in Alabama regiments for the confederacy in the Civil War.



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Posts: 29408 | Location: In the red hinterlands of Deep Blue VA | Registered: June 29, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Some outstanding folks in here! Thank you to everyone!
I had a good run starting in 1987 and wrapped up in 2014, started in the Army at age 17 and shifted to the Coast Guard after a break. E-1 to E-5 twice and made it to O-4 despite a couple of article 15's!
The box my crew made for me:
Storytime:
Early 1988 at Ft Bragg, it's my cherry blast jump. Training mission with live demo to blow up a runway at the abandoned Laurenburg airport. I was a 12B in the 307th Engineers, 82nd ABN. My ruck is loaded with a 50lb bag of amo-nitrate mixed with mogas with 7 pounds of tnt wrapped in det cord, along with all my other stuff for a few days, plus a spankin fresh M16a2. Others jumped in shape charges and charges like mine, posthole diggers, shovels. I'm 2nd to last in the stick to jump in a C-130. I weigh about 155lbs and my ruck seems to weigh about the same. Green light, hobbling to the door, getting pushed by stick pusher. I trip out the door head first and immediately feel the chute dragging across my front side, busted my nose, kicking to get free, chute starts to catch air. I'm upside down, my heavy ruck in my face, feet tangled in the risers. I kick free and flip rightside up and boom! I hit the ground in a cotton field, so glad I didn't hit the runway. It all happened so fast. I disconnect, get up and look to see the plane and everyone else still in the air. Collect my chute and gear, last one to the rally point and get my ass chewed for being so late. The cratering charge I jumped in blew an enormous hole in the runway. Pretty awesome night!
 
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Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Some outstanding folks in here! Thank you to everyone!
I had a good run starting in 1987 and wrapped up in 2014, started in the Army at age 17 and shifted to the Coast Guard after a break. E-1 to E-5 twice and made it to O-4 despite a couple of article 15's!
The box my crew made for me:
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Storytime:
Early 1988 at Ft Bragg, it's my cherry blast jump. Training mission with live demo to blow up a runway at the abandoned Laurenburg airport. I was a 12B in the 307th Engineers, 82nd ABN. My ruck is loaded with a 50lb bag of amo-nitrate mixed with mogas with 7 pounds of tnt wrapped in det cord, along with all my other stuff for a few days, plus a spankin fresh M16a2. Others jumped in shape charges and charges like mine, posthole diggers, shovels. I'm 2nd to last in the stick to jump in a C-130. I weigh about 155lbs and my ruck seems to weigh about the same. Green light, hobbling to the door, getting pushed by stick pusher. I trip out the door head first and immediately feel the chute dragging across my front side, busted my nose, kicking to get free, chute starts to catch air. I'm upside down, my heavy ruck in my face, feet tangled in the risers. I kick free and flip rightside up and boom! I hit the ground in a cotton field, so glad I didn't hit the runway. It all happened so fast. I disconnect, get up and look to see the plane and everyone else still in the air. Collect my chute and gear, last one to the rally point and get my ass chewed for being so late. The cratering charge I jumped in blew an enormous hole in the runway. Pretty awesome night!


Glad you survived. You probably jumped out of one of my planes (I was stationed at Pope AFB), of course prior to it being "my plane" by a few years. I saw quite a few things go wrong with static line jumps in my time there.


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It's a small world sometimes! We had quite a few training casualties back then. I had 4 chute malfunctions in my time there, C130 and C141, but walked away from them all! Those 141s were interesting, it sure takes a while to crank the landing gear manually!
 
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Thank you very much for the chance.
SSgt USMC Active Duty July 1977 - Dec 1985.
 
Posts: 1949 | Location: Northern Virginia/Buggs Island, Boydton Va. | Registered: July 13, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I left high school my senior year to go MCRD San Diego’s I could be made into a Marine. That summer after boot camp graduation, I took two tests wrapped up my high school diploma.

Got out due to a hearing loss on my second enlistment four years later.

Thanks for the chance and your generosity.



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ok a quick story. During the winter of 1990 I was on the Saudi/Iraq border. The enlisted personnel typically handled guard duty. The officers (pilots) did not. Christmas came and we did not have anything to give each other or the enlisted for Christmas. The Warrant Officer Gaggle (WOG) decided that we would cover Christmas for the enlisted as a Christmas gift.
I had convinced myself that there was going to be a attack that night.
My foxhole mate and I loaded a case, yes a case of grenades a bunch of flares, and 15 each magazines we had a ton of ordnance in that foxhole and it was tight.
The best mount for our NVG's that we had was on our flight helmets, so we wore the helmets while on duty, it made it hard to hear each other but we could see really well.
I remember the stars were the most beautiful that I had ever seen, I remember thinking here I am in the most holy place at the most holy time and the stars were beautiful, I thought about the people that had be in that land before me.
It got really cold and guard duty sucked, we huddled together in the hole trying to stay awake and alert as our tour finished.
I was looking outside when my foxhole mate told me that "hey I hear a truck", no truck was expected. I gently tap my extra magazines to confirm where they are and run my thumb up to my safety, and I am thinking oh boy here we go.
Well what my foxhole mate actual said was not "hey I hear a truck", what he actually said was "get out of my way, I have got to throw up".
When we got relieved in the morning we had cleaned up the best we could, but the grenades, ammo, foxhole and ourselves were a big mess. The Top said he wasn't sure that we should do anymore guard duty, that broke my heart.


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In on behalf of my non-internet connected Father.

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Wow- what a generous Karma! I am a Navy Submarine Veteran and would be honored to be considered.

Dad- Korean War Gator Navy Veteran
Brother - Cold War/Desert Storm Boomer Submarine Veteran
Uncles- Navy Carrier Veteran Vietnam, another Special Forces, Vietnam, (everywhere), and others.

Thank you for the chance!
 
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Excellent karma, I'm blessed to be able to join it. USCG 1976-1980 plus 2 two years of inactive reserves. My last orders were to reported to the 8th District Headquarters in New Orleans in case of nuclear war. Figure that one out!


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Thank you!
This is an amazing karma!
Please count me in.
US Army Field Arty '85 to '89
I'll see if I can dig up old pics of the 8 inch self-propelled howitzers. The M110's are relics now. Chopped up and the barrels used to make bunker-busters.


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