Sir, you are far too generous. Thanks for the opportunity and please count me in.

I'm an active duty Army officer with 15 years of service and getting ready to go on my 5th combat deployment very soon.

Count me in

USMC ret. 1980 - 2002

Very generous. Please do not include me. Although a veteran (USAF 1974-1978) My service pales in comparison to others here on SF

Wonderful karma for Veterans Day. Thank you for this. Count me and my NG time in please.

You are a generous man. Please include me USAF - 1980 - 1989. Thank you sir.

In 1989 I went into the Navy recruiters office looking to sign up. I chose the Navy because my family tradition in the Navy was far reaching. My Grandfather was on the U.S.S. Ruben James in WWII.

When I went to the recruiter he tried to sell my on joining the nuclear power program. I knew I wasn’t mechanically inclined so I told him as much and suggested that I didn’t want my name to go down in history with Three Mike Island and Hiroshima. He then asked if I’d like to work on airplanes. I said that’s probably a bit less risky but still involved me fixing broken (and important) equipment.

He asked if I thought I could learn a foreign language. I said I could do that so I signed up and off I went to the Defense Language Institute which led me to eventually becoming a CTI. It was a great run and while I was in I managed to put away enough money to pay for college and later grad school. To this day I say it’s the best move I ever made as a kid and I hope one day my kids will follow that path.

Yes please. Two paid vacations to Viet Nam with USAF.

My great uncle was killed in the battle of the Bulge and my other great uncle was in North Africa, Sicily, and Normandy. Please enter me in your very generous Karma.

Nice! Please count me in. U.S. Army 87-97

I can't really share any photos, but that is one sweet rifle.

My dad was a naval corpsman stationed on the USS America. He would always say how great that was the food etc. then all of a sudden he found himself in a marine battalion in Vietnam. He never spoke too much about it but one story that makes me chuckle a bit as an adult.

When I was a kid I was giving him some lazy excuse or another about being tired and he had a moment where he snapped and yell “Boy you don’t know tired when you nod off for a second in a God Damned firefight with bullets whizzing over head then you can talk to me about tired!!!” I never bitched about tired again.

He also has a very low opinion of the VC calling them, and my dad is a pretty laid back funny guy, “those pussies in the pajamas”. The NVA however those guys scared him.

He spoke of “Puff The Magic Dragon” being a god send once or twice as well.

At any rate I haven’t been tired since 1989

This is extremely generous of you.
I would love to have a chance at this.
I was in Air Force Reserves in 1955, Lost my
brother who was in the Eighth Air Force.
He was left waist gunner on a B-17 that went down in Germany. Only the pilot survived, but I only learned about the pilot a few years ago at the Eighth Air Force Museum in Georgia.
The Flying Fortress (B-17) was lost in 1944.
I was Eight years old.
Regards, Jack

US Army 99-06. I went from NG to active in 03 after we invaded Iraq. I wanted to switch MOS to Infantry and go straight to Iraq. I got lied to/sweet talked to staying a RTO and going to Korea to a unit that didn't deploy to Iraq, where I hurt my back lifting a generator and ended up getting a medical discharge :/

Please include me. USAR aviation 1968-1974.
Sorry, no pixs.

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Originally posted by PossibleZombie:
Sir, you are far too generous. Thanks for the opportunity and please count me in.

I'm an active duty Army officer with 15 years of service and getting ready to go on my 5th combat deployment very soon.

Which theater you headed to bro? I'm gearing up now for a year in AFG.

Once again Q, an extremely generous Karma. I've wanted a Noveske for a long time.
This is a photo on the back of the USS Gurnard (SSN-662), going through the Panama Canal on one of the times that we circum-navigated North America. I'll have to find some photos of us playing football at the North Pole.
Thanks, Ed

Please include me, US Army 1966 to 1971 with a three year break while I finished college. Served as MP, Mec Infantry, EOD, Special weapons (Nucks), Conventional weapons and Logistian.

Wow.

Thank you for showing your appreciation to veterans in this way. This is really awesome of you.

Throwing my name into the hat. USAF 1998-2013 Thank you.

This is very kind of you. I did not serve but my father served in the Navy in WWII.

Once again, an amazingly generous karma!

I'm in.

Retired US Army, ( Aviation ) from June 1990 to September 2013.