Please enter me. Army. Here's a pic of a mortar attack while deployed to Iraq in 2003.

I’d a love a chance for one of your generous karmas.

At least third generation, my Grandfather was Army, my father Navy, and me USMC 1981-1990.

I don’t have any terribly interesting stories, but my father, 88 next week, moved in with us recently and my wife and I have really enjoyed hearing of his travels while in the Navy. Some of the stories I had heard before, others are new to me even after all these years.

Learned last night over dinner that his ship USS Burton Island (ice breaker) was “politely asked to leave” Tahiti when a local government official took exception to the antics of his shipmates.

One day I hope to find the old 8mm movies of them hunting polar bears and loading one back onto the ship (late 50’s or early 60’s). Can you imagine something like that happening today?

Would love a chance at this and thanks!
US Army 1986-1994.

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Please add me. USN 93-2000.
Thank you for the chance.

Hi, please include me. I served in the USAF active duty from 1985 - 1992.

Thanks!

(mini) Army vet here. By which I mean, served a mere 2 year peacetime stint.

Don't enter me into the karma, there are others who are far more deserving, but wanted to say what a nice gesture it is that you're showing true appreciation for the veterans.

25 years in, my wife did 24 simultaneously. Changed our lives forever.

Dean

Count me in please! Thanks!

20 in the Navy as a Gun Firecontrolman, late classified as a Firecontrolman. I came across these pictures from around 1982-83. They were on the USS Savannah AOR4. This was one of my first attempts to grow a beard. This would have been either in the Med or the Indian Ocean. The first picture was a thin as a rail me on deck.



In the second, I am holding 2 M61A1 barrels in our shop/control room during a gun tear down maintenance. I worked on Phalanx CIWS Block 1 on those days.

Please include me....two(2) "goes" to Vietnam, and came home with all of my parts.

I'm in and thank you!

Served in the US Army from 1991-1995 and the PA Army, then Air National Guard from 2001-2008.

In Please. My Dad was a decorated WWII vet.

Please add me. My Granddad and his brothers all served in WWII.

My Granddad didn’t talk much about his time in theater. He came home and put himself through college. He retired as a teacher and principal in Kentucky. He moved the family to Indiana and did the same thing there. I remember he earned purple Heart and bronze star. One of them had a ‘V’ on the ribbon. (He hid these ribbons and medals until we found them after his death). He had visible shrapnel under his eye and ankle until they night he died. I only know that because my Nan told me. I also remember he couldn’t watch sitcoms because of the laughter in the background. It drove him nuts. I never once, heard him complain about anything. My aunt retired as a teacher after over 40 years. My other aunt retired as an Eastern flight attendant.

He was a man’s man and the best of the best. I remember as a young kid we were playing baseball. I had just received a new baseball. We asked him to come play. He was in his seventies. He got up to bat and smoked the first pitch. When we found the ball he had busted the seams on that new baseball.

Thank you for the chance! Most of all, thank you for the chance to brag on my Granddad.

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Please count me in. Served 72-94 US NAVY. Thank you for the chance.

Thanks for the offer. USMC 1973-77

Very generous karma from a true expert of the 228. I was active duty USCG 1986-1994. Kept the Canadians from invading the Great Lakes. Thousands of search and rescue cases. Please throw my name in the hat.

Jim

Thanks for the generous karma. Please count me in. Six years in the ARNG. Thanks!

Please enter me in the Karma. USMC Active and Reserve. Gulf War, OIF.

Please count me in. Our entire family served in the military.

Thank you!!

Thank you for the chance!

I was in the Air Force, 1990-1997, and then the AK ANG 1997-2000.

I worked on Aircraft Pneudraulic systems. (Hydraulics.)

On one occasion in 1991, I was working on Launch Crew, we had an aircraft, KC-135 sitting on the hammerhead, waiting to take off when the crew chief noticed during final walk around a red fluid leaking near the front of the aircraft.

I arrived, to engines running and a crew very ready to go. Looked over everything and realized that there were no hydraulics, nor lines even in the area. The fluid was more light pink than red.

Mike driver and I guessed it was old fluid that had been picked up by the rain the evening before.

It was at that point he touched it, and touched it to his tongue. "Nope" he said, not hydraulic fluid. I trusted his assessment. He was after all a MSGT, and I was an A1C.

A short time later, we found out that the crew chief the night before had spilled the latrine, and it was the deodorant fluid from that....

Reinforced my belief on how crazy it was to "taste" test any fluid.

Please add me to the list.

USAF 1968-1972

Bob