What branch?
Length of Service?
Where you been?
What you doing now?


ET1(SW)
US Navy
6.5 years
USS Harry S Truman 2006-2011 Reactor Controls Division
NRMD Bangor 2011-now S/38N

Nuclear Maintenance Engineer (3393)

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10/15/2011 10:02:39 PM

US Army
6 years
NC national Guard 2005-2010
Camp Shelby MS, Fort Bragg, Fort Irwin, Fort Stewart - on active orders
OIF 09-10 attached to 1st Cav, FOB Falcon
US Army Reserve 2010-now as Drill Sgt. Candidate

Infantry (11B)

10/15/2011 10:09:33 PM

Air Force
4 years

Sheppard AFB, TX. 2008
Kunsan AB, Korea, 2008-2009
Camp Darby, Italy 2009-late Nov, 2012

Munitions troop (2w0x1)

Getting out to go back to NCSU

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10/16/2011 9:33:05 AM

Army - 11B2P
6.5 years active, 8.5 years reserves/guard
JSA-DMZ Korea, Camp Casey Korea, Ft Hood TX, Ft Bragg NC, Dubai, Kuwait, Iraq, Spain
working @ my job in RTP, preparing to go to OCS (+IOBC, etc) via the guard

10/16/2011 10:10:12 AM

US Army
5 Years
Was an 11B with 10th Mountain (4th BDE, Ft. Polk ) OIF 7-9 (Loyalty, Ouibaidy, Karrada, Beladiyat...)
Currently an 18B with 5th SFG in Iraq.

10/16/2011 1:07:33 PM

Misplaced apostrophe ITT title.

10/16/2011 1:38:46 PM

Only one veteran is allowed to post in the thread

10/16/2011 1:46:33 PM

I'm a TDub veteran.

10/16/2011 2:04:20 PM

Army - 11A, and since people are throwing on ASIs, 5S
All of one year
Benning, Riley, Eglin AFB.
Technically, I'm listed as excess on the company MTOE, we're overstaffed on junior officers. But it's better than hanging out in the S3 shop. We'll be going as the last push to Afghanistan, supposedly.

Raiden, if you want any info about IOBC/Ranger, lemme know.

[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM. Reason : .]

10/16/2011 2:17:46 PM

Quote :

"Misplaced apostrophe ITT title."

I fail. Someone Fix please!

10/16/2011 4:15:40 PM

Army
3 years active 5 years NG/reserves
Medic
Ft Knox
Ft Sam
Ft Bliss

FTXs in New Mexico, Arizona, Bahamas
Weekend drills at Bragg, Butner, etc


Working in IT.

[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM. Reason : .]

10/16/2011 5:00:29 PM

^^^pm sent

10/16/2011 5:12:24 PM

Hawthorne is 7th Group in full force down at Eglin yet?

10/16/2011 6:45:50 PM

Yeah, they got their own little compound and everything. One of the guys I went through FL with is with 7th SFG, and he said they're live and ready to rock.

10/16/2011 8:10:56 PM

Army
4 years active 2 years NG
Medic 91W then 68W
Ft Knox
Ft Sam
Ft Lewis (2ID, 3RD BDE Strykers)

one deployment to iraq july 06-Sept 07, 1/2 in mosul (diamondback), 1/2 in baghdad (stryker then taji) but stayed at way too many places to list

training was mainly done at Yakima and NTC

now i am in my senior year looking to graduate...ya GI Bill

10/16/2011 10:56:23 PM

USCG
5yrs - YN2 (paperpusher)
Sabine Pass, TX
Corpus Christi
Elizabeth City
Charleston
Now in Cape Cod, MA at the air station

Been deployed to the Caribbean, Africa, Black Sea, Mediterranean.

10/16/2011 11:03:10 PM

ET3
USN
3 yrs
United States
Electrical Engineer in Raleigh

10/16/2011 11:59:27 PM

^^you guys can go out that far?

what type of boat were you on? pardon my ignorance, I have only seen the tiny coast guard cutters.

10/17/2011 4:54:06 PM

it was 378ft high-endurance cutter. we went 5 months out to sea and had to replace most of the engines when we got back. schedule was usually 60days in/60 days out. worked with the 6th fleet and had to abide by the navy rules. we normally get overnight liberty in port calls instead of Cinderella.

10/17/2011 7:42:35 PM

Yeah, I was on a cutter in Europe - Canary Islands, Portugal, and Spain. Had fellow Coasties going out to China, Australia, Japan, etc.

10/17/2011 11:54:25 PM

man, i should've joined the coast guard

10/17/2011 11:58:10 PM

Uscg
10 years
Petaluma, ca
Charleston, sc
New London, ct
Atlantic beach, nc
Pensacola, FL
Corpus Christi, tx
Mobile, al
Miami FL

I fly fixed wing airplanes and have flown all over the us and deployed to most countries in the Caribbean.
Hoping for a move to the cape in a year or two.

10/18/2011 6:30:43 AM

Ahh, good 'ol New London, CT. Go Bears.

10/18/2011 8:05:38 PM

USMC
5 Years, got out as an E-5
Aviation Electrician on EA-6B Prowlers
NAS Pensacola, NAS Whidbey Island, MCAS Cherry Point
Aviano Air Base, Italy (Operation Noble Anvil)
Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia (Operation Southern Watch)

10/20/2011 9:49:59 AM

There should be more pictures posted of you guys in your uniforms...

10/20/2011 10:01:28 AM

funny you should say that, I just took pics in my dress blues the other day. I rarely wear them, so its pretty neat to put all that stuff on.

10/20/2011 10:08:53 AM

The old blues or the new ASU with that stupid combat pin?

10/20/2011 10:30:13 AM

^^^ I totally agree! Mm....sexy uniforms. I can't wait until chembob gets home!

Also, thank you all for your service. You have my utmost respect for making the decision and serving honorably.

10/20/2011 11:24:03 PM

screw uniform pictures, post your ribbon rack and let the chest thumping commence!

10/21/2011 7:46:14 AM

I called my wife earlier (I'm in Iraq right now) and she said she saw some brosky kicking around Ft. Campbell with an NCSU sticker. She also said he looked like "some pogue" (I love my wife.)

Fess up.

10/21/2011 12:29:11 PM

Not a veteran, I'll say that upfront, but I've had my fun.

Navy - Civilian
2.5 years
USS Bulkeley as part of the ENTERPRISE strike group
Um.... a little bit of Warfare Systems Analysis, development of directed energy weapons systems and some mission evaluation stuff.

10/21/2011 1:32:23 PM

my ribbon rack is weak. 3 rows and I have done two deployments. ha

10/21/2011 1:55:09 PM

ya, i was due a couple medals but never got them

10/22/2011 3:29:15 PM

Bumping this thread because I keep seeing TWW:Vets and clicking on it.

10/30/2011 11:26:32 AM

LT
US Navy
7.5 years
Standard Flight school places
Jacksonville, FL
MCBH Kaneohe, HI
Ali AB (COB Adder) Iraq
Manama, Bahrain
Doha, Qatar
Okinawa, Japan
All with Patrol Squadron Nine
Now I'm a Single Engine flight instructor with VT-27 in Corpus Christi, TX

10/30/2011 3:31:59 PM

I think if I could've been anything besides what I am, I'd have been a pilot.

How's Qatar? Got some work coming up there.

10/31/2011 1:18:44 PM

They have a pool.

10/31/2011 1:27:01 PM

Quote :

"The old blues or the new ASU with that stupid combat pin?"

the ASUs.

10/31/2011 1:28:17 PM

Out of curiosity.

Officers, how do you view enlisted?

and Enlisted, how do you view officers?

Personally, I've had a lot of good experience with officers, for the most part they seem to have their head screwed on right (most were prior e). However, every once in awhile there is that stereotypical butterbar that you just want to smack. We had one LT in Korea (UNC grad) who wanted us to do the stupidest things, repaint a trailer in the rain, paint an inert bomb to make it look more like a real one (yellow band instead of blue) etc. That was just the tip of the iceberg. It got to the point where he wasn't allowed around the bomb dump without an NCO escort.


One thing though that I seriously don't get. Why is it whenever an O-5 or higher needs to address a crowd, and some guy has spent an hour or so setting up a speakers and a microphone that works phenomenally, the Col will insist on not using it. I mean, he could be addressed a couple hundred people in a big ass hangar, but nope, no mic.

10/31/2011 1:33:16 PM

yeah I've had some chewed up cherry LT's in my time as well, but for the most part the O2s and above have been pretty squared away. The prior enlisted guys were almost always excellent officers (except for one shitbag but whatever).

I'm looking forward to my time after ocs & branching school/follow-on school(s). I think its gonna be very interesting seeing the Army from the officer side of the house.

10/31/2011 3:08:03 PM

I have had a few bad ones. Mostly academy guys and that includes the prior enlisted guys who went to the academy. Its like they forgot where they come from.

My favorite Div-O and PA were both NCSU grads.

I have had a lot of experience with LDOs and those guys always rock for the most part.

as for the O5 and yelling instead of MICing it up...ANNOYING...its across the branches.

10/31/2011 5:46:55 PM

Junior enlisted...I feel bad for because the Army treats them like four-year-olds. Then they go and do stupid shit on the weekends despite four people in a row telling them not to do it. They're like high-schoolers, except worse, because they have got the whole infantry ego going on.

NCOs are like officers, you got good ones and bad ones. Can't lump 'em together. The good ones you listen to and give them buy-in and latitude in running their guys. The bad ones you keep on a leash and constantly follow up on.

10/31/2011 8:52:38 PM

U.S. Army
7 years
Basic: Fort Jackson, SC
AIT: Keesler AFB, Biloxi MS
1st duty station: Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea
Traveled all the way from the DMZ down to Daegu.

2nd duty station: Fort Campbell, KY

MOS: 35H TMDE Calibration

I am still calibrating after all those years.

11/2/2011 9:06:58 AM

I work with mostly o-4s and up... they need to be babysat a lot of the time. the O-2 and O-3s know better and are generally really nice. but since i am the one issuing orders and paying people they know to be nice when they come to my office.

11/2/2011 10:05:45 AM

I can tell you that when they transfer to a civilian code, the officers are a bit easier to deal with than prior enlisted guys. The former commissioned usually have to take time adjusting to the fact that seniority now plays a lesser (albeit, still important) roll in who leads what project, and that can be a little annoying, but usually prior officers can adjust that attitude and understand that the roles change a little.

Enlisted guys transfer to civilian codes working for program officers or warfare centers and look at every person there who didn't do their particular job, and assumes they are "out of touch with how things are in the field". Hey, they have the experience, so you can give them credit where it is due. The problem is when you have people with a lot of operational experience who are use to understand more about their mission area than others, then they move to a program not related to their mission area (like a former enlisted Marine that worked in supply moving to a department working with unmanned systems), and they carry over that attitude of "I know best and if you disagree, its because you don't 'get it'."

For the record, I'm not saying that it's that enlisted guys have a shitty attitude, it's just how they are trained and what their positions are in uniform. It seems like sometimes it's difficult for them to adjust to the different atmosphere working for a system or operational command.

[Edited on November 2, 2011 at 1:32 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2011 1:20:42 PM

So our FY12 training calendar is out, and we have block leave every goddamn quarter (with a couple of UW exes and JCETs)

How is every one elses op tempo looking with OIF (or OND) shutting down?

12/9/2011 3:13:40 PM

We're loading up for NTC now (even though we're a light unit), Afghanistan later next year. Got winter exodus and pre-deployment leave, pretty standard.

12/10/2011 9:57:46 PM

NTC is better for Astan. When I was stationed at Polk, 4/10 went up to Wyoming to train, since JRTC just wasn't gonna cut it.

12/11/2011 3:43:02 PM

Seaman
US Coast Guard
Deployable Operations Group (DOG)
4 Months

I report to Boatswain's Mate a-school in January. Be there for 14 months. Then I head down to The USCG Special Missions TRACEN in Camp Lejeune for some more courses. My unit is gearing up to deploy to Iraq where we'll be doing maritime security around oil rigs and major ports, conducting vessel boardings and conducting Search and Rescue Missions. Apparently, we'll also be training the new Iraqi Navy. I'm pretty pumped about it.

12/12/2011 1:44:21 PM

That sounds pretty badass.

12/18/2011 5:07:52 PM