Uniform contest

[jimmydeanno]

HOLY HAIRCUT BATMAN!

[Duke Dillio]

Gotta love the old pickle suits...

This brings a tear to my eye.  Oh, the nastalgia...

[SAR-EMT1]

LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
VOTING WILL BE THURSDAYish.

[Fifinella]

Here I am on my first actual SAR mission, learning why you should always have a uniform and your 24 hour pack in your trunk.  I got the call while I was at the gym...

[Stonewall]

I got the call while I was at the gym...

You can tell.  Check out the definition in those legs...      :angel:

[Stonewall]

This is the most recent picture I have of me in service dress and since I'm wearing major epaulets, I'd say it's circa 2002.  Tells you how long it's been since I've worn them.  Heck, it was even before we started wearing nametags on our service dress again.  Guess it's time for an update.

Plenty of pics of me in BDUs though...

[brasda91]

here's the one I was able to upload to e-services for my photo ID.

[pixelwonk]

Ultimate Kirt and Ultimate Spicoli... Separated at birth?

[Stonewall]

Ultimate Kirt and Ultimate Spicoli... Separated at birth?

You know how many people have equated me with Jeff Spicoli?  When I went into the Army I still had the surfer slang and twang.  Since moving back to Florida last year, I've taken up surfing again, hopefully without the mentality and twang of a burnt out surf rat.

Here's me after battling the 2' waves of Atlantic Beach.  A slow day, but a good day to use my 7' 4" fun board and practice getting my 205 lb butt up on my feet.  My surfboard was actually designed and crafted by my 12th Grade Zoology teacher, Roger Wood, a la "Wood Surfboards".

[SJFedor]

This is the most recent picture I have of me in service dress and since I'm wearing major epaulets, I'd say it's circa 2002.  Tells you how long it's been since I've worn them.  Heck, it was even before we started wearing nametags on our service dress again.  Guess it's time for an update.

Plenty of pics of me in BDUs though...

Hey Kirt, I've been meaning to ask, what's the badge you got beneath your ribbons there?

[Stonewall]

Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ID badge.  It's a temporary badge worn by folks serving under the OSD.  If you serve for longer than one continuous year, you keep it as a permanent badge.  It's listed on my DD214.

From '94 to '95, my last year in the Army, I was selected (forced) to go to the Pentagon on a special detail as part of the "SEC DEF Sentry Team".  Basically, representatives from each branch of service, to include the USCG, wore dress blues, strapped on a M9 (issued 9 mm pistol) and stood outside the Secretary of Defense's office. 

As cheesy as it sounds, it was pretty cool and we did do more than just stand there.  Sometimes we drove general officers, office staffers or VIPs guests of the secretary.  We attended some specialized "protection training" that I think was just a morale booster.  The coolest part was seeing all the high speed folks coming in and out of the office.  From General Powell to all the Service Chiefs, as well as foreign dignitaries.  People I personally remember include Scott O'Grady, Steven Spielberg, the whole 1994 Winter Olympic team (or was it summer), and a few Medal of Honor recipients to name a few.

It wasn't the job I signed up for as an infantryman, but it was certainly an experience few can talk about.

[mikeylikey]

Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ID badge.  It's a temporary badge worn by folks serving under the OSD.  If you serve for longer than one continuous year, you keep it as a permanent badge.  It's listed on my DD214.

From '94 to '95, my last year in the Army, I was selected (forced) to go to the Pentagon on a special detail as part of the "SEC DEF Sentry Team".  Basically, representatives from each branch of service, to include the USCG, wore dress blues, strapped on a M9 (issued 9 mm pistol) and stood outside the Secretary of Defense's office. 

As cheesy as it sounds, it was pretty cool and we did do more than just stand there.  Sometimes we drove general officers, office staffers or VIPs guests of the secretary.  We attended some specialized "protection training" that I think was just a morale booster.  The coolest part was seeing all the high speed folks coming in and out of the office.  From General Powell to all the Service Chiefs, as well as foreign dignitaries.  People I personally remember include Scott O'Grady, Steven Spielberg, the whole 1994 Winter Olympic team (or was it summer), and a few Medal of Honor recipients to name a few.

It wasn't the job I signed up for as an infantryman, but it was certainly an experience few can talk about.

Not to get too far off your subject, but you look like the guy that used to be on one of those Army Values posters we were all forced to hang in the office.  Is that you......personal courage?

[Stonewall]

Not to get too far off your subject, but you look like the guy that used to be on one of those Army Values posters we were all forced to hang in the office.  Is that you......personal courage?

Nope, I'm the main guy in the Army Values Series...



Picture taken in 1997 prior to deploying to Bosnia.  AUSA did an article on my company as the "first National Guard infantry company to be deployed since Vietnam".  This picture ended up on the cover of the 1997 Army Green Book (AUSA's annual publication).  After numerous scandals the Army was looking to improve its soldiers from the top down so they came up with the Army Values.  They selected this photo as the "cover poster" for the series.  It ran 9 years, until 2006 when the replaced all the old posters with new ones.

http://www.armyg1.army.mil/HR/ARMYVALUES.ASP

[mikeylikey]

^  Man that is awesome!  I knew you looked way familiar even though I never saw you before.  That was something we all stared at during classes and briefings.  In fact, I think I still have my copy from Soldiers.  If I do, would you consider a signature??   

[Stonewall]

^  Man that is awesome!  I knew you looked way familiar even though I never saw you before.  That was something we all stared at during classes and briefings.  In fact, I think I still have my copy from Soldiers.  If I do, would you consider a signature??   

Seriously?  Yes, sir, I'll sign it.  It won't be the first, but I never really understood why people ask me to do it.

[Smokey]

 not my best but one of my coolest.......


That's me on the left.....

[LtCol White]

Me in a rather different..non CAP uniform at a WWII function

[Stonewall]

Me in a different place at a different time...

[Stonewall]

In the Maldive Islands just a few days after the Tsunami hit.

[RogueLeader]

Me in a rather different..non CAP uniform at a WWII function

Were can I get a set of those boots, they would be great for my JK uniform