I am an ex reservist Private who served 2 years in the Grey and Simcoe Foresters B Coy which is an Infantry regiment in my home town.

I was in the platoon weapons det. and mainly carried the GPMG (C6) around alot.

Army Brat, born in a US Army Hospital in Germany.
Graduated Virginia Military Institute
5 years Active Duty as a Lieutenant in the Field Artillery in Germany
1 year in the Michigan Army National Guard, Field Artillery
24 years US Army Reserve during which time I spent time in the Infantry Basic Training Business, did a three year tour with the Air National Guard as a Ground Liaison Officer and then switched from FA to Military Police in order to Command the 785th MP Bn, currently deployed in Iraq.

Retired as a Colonel and finished my last three years in the Corps of Engineers, assigned to the Reserve portion of the Eight Army which is located in Korea.

Tom

Full time Army reservist since '73. Mortars (81s) and Armour Defense (106MM). Started off with Lincoln & Welland R, then 2 Bn Irish R and now with Area Support Unit Northern Ontario.

U.S. Navy 1972-1976 --Vietnam 1972 I build almost anything except ships for some reason.

8 years US Army Reserve (1987-95)
Started out as a 67N UH-1H helo mech and finished as a 31C radio teletype operator in a MI unit.

Spent a year and a half in Army ROTC but was declared "unfit" for comissioning after herniating several discs in my lower back in 1990. However, they said I could still finish out my reserve enlistment.

Chris "toadman" Hughes
Toadman's Tank Pictures

Spent 20 years in the USAF. Retired in 1989.
Recon

Ex. Reserve 18 Svc Bn. transport company.(ya,ya another dumb truck driver) Spent 5 years in and 2 of that was full time (class B dispatch).

Best 5 years of my life!

Jim

10 years in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Mostly as an armourer, but four years as a photographer and now back in the armament world again. Served on 75 sqn working on A4Ks, worked on MB Mk10 ejection seats and various bomb racks. Currently servicing the Western Gear rescue hoist from the Iroquois and servicing small arms.

Buy mostly armour, figures and aircraft, build....not much...

U.S. Navy. Active duty 1972-1974. Reservist till 1976. Spent my time as a snipe, crawling around in the main engine room on a salvage and rescue tug, the U.S.S. Hoist. Below is a pic of the old girl.

1983-84 USMC

United States Army (Retired)! 13C Tactical Fire Direction from the beginning to the end! (hence my "name.")

Damn, there's a LOT of Artillery posting here! Sweet!!!! And the different nationalities!! DOUBLE Sweet!!!

Brothers, YOU YELL, WE SHELL!!

Incomming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EDIT - Staff Jim, how about an icon for a HOWITZER!!!!!!! The little peeshooter don't do us (the KING of battle) NO justice!]

Rock on!!!

Mike (++) (++)

10 years RAF Regiment; Rapier and Queens Colour Squadron.

18 yrs Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment including Rifle Companys and Mortar Platoon (81mm) with operational tours in Bosnia, and 2 tours to East Timor.

Onward

I am a former Army National Guard member who served in Desert Storm (Part 1) with the 1485th Transportation Unit from Dover, Ohio. Served in the military from 1985 to 1992 and got out with the E-5 Sergeant Rank. I was a Motor Vehicle Operator (Army definition), Transportation Specialist (Glamorous Definition) and Truck Driver (Majority of the World Definition)!! We hauled Armor back and forth from the Port of Dhahran to the desert and on occasion were known to haul water buffaloes(one each) on our lowboy trailers. Nice to see so many military personnel on the site. And remember, If you can't truck it , ____ it!!

Royal Armoured Corps, TAVR and finished my time with the Army Cadet Force. So 1976 to 1999 when diabetes put en end to it all...........Damn I hate it!

John

3 years ('87-90) in a 4.2" mechanized mortar platoon on the M106 and M577. Ft Hood, Tx and Garlstedt, Germany.

Paul

Retired Colonel, US Army, Logistician, after 31 years -10-1/2 active, 20-1/2 reserve. Branch time pretty evenly split between Ordnance & Quartermaster.

Retired (early at 10 years) Dept of the Army Civilian, traveled the world providing simulation support to training events.

Works out to 33 years continuous or if you unwind the overlap, something like 41 years total in The Army.

John

Hi everyone. I was US Navy, 1965 - 1969. Aviation Electronics Tech specializing in ECM and black boxes belonging to NSA. Modeling interests lean heavily to late WWII German armor.

Best wishes to all,

L Witter

USAF 1980-1988, Crew Chief (aircraft mech droid) on F-106's & F-4E's then cross-trained into Air Traffic Control (upgraded w/protocol droid suite)....now work for Federal Aviation Administration going on 18 years. Love the airplanes, man!

Hoss

11yrs USAF, used to be a c-130 crew chief and now i am a flight engineer on an MC-130P..... I am stationed in Florida . Been loving every minute of it. Oh ya Im an E-6. Gotta Love AFSOC



Herky,

Served mostly with the 2/33rd FA 1st Infantry Division in West Germany during the Cold War. Olive drab is still my favorite color.

SSG, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader and Platoon Sergeant about to go to the Rock Pile

Currently serving Petty Officer 1st Class, Physician Assistant - Canadian Navy. 27 down 10 to go.

us army
69 to 73
combat arms, recon scout

reb

1982 - 1990, Queen's Own Highlanders, British Army.
Went to Falklands, Northern Ireland, Germany, Canada, America, Belize, Mexico, Dakar and Kenya FREE! Woohoo! Couldn't afford it as a Civvie.



Of course there was one little drawback to serving in some of the places...

Glad I did it all the same.