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Who is a veteran?

Started by Stonewall, November 11, 2007, 04:15:51 PM

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Are you a Veteran?

Served or serving honorably in the Army
39 (38.2%)
Served or serving honorably in the Navy
13 (12.7%)
Served or serving honorably in the Air Force
39 (38.2%)
Served or serving honorably in the Marines
10 (9.8%)
Served or serving honorably in the Coast Guard
2 (2%)
Earned a campaign medal
30 (29.4%)
Tried/wanted to serve but was not able to
19 (18.6%)

Total Members Voted: 102

Stonewall

Just thought I'd throw this one out there on Veteran's Day.  Figured we could see who our veterans are and see when, where and how they served.  Obviously, we all serve our community, state and nation by being in CAP, but for this occasion, who served or is still serving in our beloved armed forces.

If you were/are a reservist or guardsmen, just mark your branch.  Some people like me have served in 2 branches, so I've allowed for multiple votes.

Me: 

Active duty Army 1991 to 1995
Army National guard 1995 to 2001 (activated and deployed to Bosnia for 9 months in '97)
Air National Guard 2003 to present

A well earned "thank you" to all those who have served and are serving today.  Hooah!
Serving since 1987.

AlphaSigOU

#1
Active duty A1C USAF 1985-1986. 52d Services Squadron, Spangdahlem AB, Germany. Served in the 'gap' between Vietnam service and Gulf War I, so no National Defense Service (aka 'firewatch') medal for me or other Cold War vets. But that's another sore subject...
Lt Col Charles E. (Chuck) Corway, CAP
Gill Robb Wilson Award (#2901 - 2011)
Amelia Earhart Award (#1257 - 1982) - C/Major (retired)
Billy Mitchell Award (#2375 - 1981)
Administrative/Personnel/Professional Development Officer
Nellis Composite Squadron (PCR-NV-069)
KJ6GHO - NAR 45040

desert rat

I served 8 years US Air Force and 2 years US ARMY.   I am a dissabled vet.

Flying Pig

Served 4 years USMC active and 4 years Army Reserve.

wingnut

#4
Served

3 years as a CAP Cadet, Cadelt 1st LT. 1970-73 (made me a patriot)

4 Years USAF 1972-1977  Combat Field Medic, Environmental Engineering and NBC warfare specialist. Specilized in Missile Launch Operations at VAFB 73-75, GUAM 75-77 served as Observor on SAR in C130s of 54th Weather Squadron (Hurricane Hunters), Environmental Health Specialist, 6months special assignment to looking for remains of US Soldiers killed on Guam, Saipan, & Tinian (Found lots of Japanese Soldiers in caves)

3 Years US Army Reserve. Field Medic, Biomedical Equipment Specialist. Combat trained to let a T60 tank roll over my foxhole and shoot it in the butt with a laws rocket (FUBAR) :o ;D

40% disabled Veteran (too many hours wearing a scott air pack and falling off ladders), TBI-(NCOIC kept hitting in the head) PTSD (too many dead people in my dreams)
Biggest night mare ( a North Korean Nuke going of in Long Beach Harbor)

Will always wish to my dying day I had Joined the US Marine Corps and stayed in for 40 years.

GOAL: Push for Veterans STATUS for those 70+ CAP members who DIED in WW 2 including the two Civil Air Patrol SUB Chasers That President Roosevelt Awarded  the Wars U.S. Army's FIRST AIR MEDALS FOR ACTION IN COMBAT.

To all of you who have never served on Active duty or in the Reserve, I see you as a Veteran because you Proudly are a member of the Civil Air Patrol we are the United States Air Force AUXILIARY, Wear your UNIFORM WITH PRIDE TODAY.[/u]

Dad2-4

USAF Security Police, 1985-1989, USAF IRA 1990;
Tried to enlist in USN MA dog handler program but they stopped taking prior service before I could get a shipping date, 1990; :(
US Army winter of 1990-91, discharged due to knee injury.
Sometimes wish I had stayed in the AF...I'd be retired by now and starting a 2nd career.

ColonelJack

US Air Force, A1C, 1975-76.

Jack
Jack Bagley, Ed. D.
Lt. Col., CAP (now inactive)
Gill Robb Wilson Award No. 1366, 29 Nov 1991
Admiral, Great Navy of the State of Nebraska
Honorary Admiral, Navy of the Republic of Molossia

Flying Pig

Quote from: Dad2-4 on November 11, 2007, 07:04:21 PM
USAF Security Police, 1985-1989, USAF IRA 1990;
Tried to enlist in USN MA dog handler program but they stopped taking prior service before I could get a shipping date, 1990; :(
US Army winter of 1990-91, discharged due to knee injury.
Sometimes wish I had stayed in the AF...I'd be retired by now and starting a 2nd career.


;D ;D  Wow!  If we only knew then what we know now!

Fifinella

Judy LaValley, Maj, CAP
Asst. DCP, LAWG
SWR-LA-001
GRW #2753

Cecil DP

Active Duty USMC 2/68-3/77 Vietnam 70-71, Operation Frequent Wind 1975
USMC Reserve 1977-1978
Army Reserve 1978-Present mobilized for Operations Joint Endeaver, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom served in Djibouti 2003, Iraq 2006
Other overseas service, Phillipines 1971-72, Guam 1971, Okinowa 1974-75, Gitmo Bay 1969
Awards: Purple Heart-3, MSM-2, DMSM, JSCM, ACM, AAM-2, CAR-2  
Michael P. McEleney
LtCol CAP
MSG  USA Retired
GRW#436 Feb 85

JCJ

USNR 1977-1983

Hospital Corpsman (Fleet Marine Force)

PHall

#11
A1C - California Air National Guard,  Apr 74 - Feb 75, 163rd CAMS, Instrument/Autopilot Specialist

SSgt - U.S. Air Force, Feb 75 - Sep 80, 22nd AMS Instrument/Autopliot Specialist, 22nd AREFS Boom Operator KC-135A

SP5 - California Army National Guard, Sep 80 to Apr 83, HHB 2/144FA (155MM) SP, Field Medic

TSgt - U.S. Air Force, Apr 83 - Jul 90, 2nd ACCS Boom Operator EC-135C "Looking Glass", KC-135E, 9th AREFS, Boom Operator KC-10A

MSgt U.S. Air Force Reserve, Jul 90 - Aug 05, 729th MAS, Flight Engineer C-141B/C

Short Field

medical discharge USMC - 1971
enlisted USAF - 1972
commissioned USAF - 1975
retired USAF - 2000

2 ACCS Looking Glass battlestaff - 1983-1985 (just for PHall)



SAR/DR MP, ARCHOP, AOBD, GTM1, GBD, LSC, FASC, LO, PIO, MSO(T), & IC2
Wilson #2640

Ranger75

1974-1976 - U.S. Army, Sergeant, 11B20V
1976-2005 - U.S. Army, Colonel, Infantry

Tim Medeiros

Not one presently, however, I do plan to serve in the USAF once I get my BS in Meteorology.

I also have 2 friends in CAP that are currently in training, one at USAF Academy, the other is at Lackland for basic.

To all those that have served and are currently serving, thank you.
TIMOTHY R. MEDEIROS, Lt Col, CAP
Chair, National IT Functional User Group
1577/2811

caplegalnc

Army National Guard 1980-1989 Infantry
Army Reserve 1989-1996- Infantry
Army National Guard 1997- Military Police
Army Reserve 1997-present -Judge Advocate General Corps
Chief Justice
NC-019

Cobra1597

For the time being only "wanted to serve". I have a bad hip resulting from an injury when I was 16, and now a bad back from problems with the hip. I intend to get corrective surgery at some point when I have the money to do it, and if it works and I am not too old, I'll probably try to go USAF.
Harrison Ingraham, Capt, CAP
MAWG External Aerospace Education Officer, ADY
Spaatz #1597

flyguy06

Quote from: Ranger75 on November 11, 2007, 10:32:25 PM
1974-1976 - U.S. Army, Sergeant, 11B20V
1976-2005 - U.S. Army, Colonel, Infantry
Where did you get commissioned?

flyguy06

I am an Infantry Officer in the Army National Guard. I was active duty enlisted in Hawaii in 1996-99.

scmaul

Served 1966-1970 USAF 97th AMS.
Steven C Maulsby, Maj
SWR-TX-354