USAF active duty Jan 1995 - May 2017

• Lackland AFB TX
• Sheppard AFB TX
• Offutt AFB NE
• Osan AB Korea
• Kessler AFB MS
• Lakenheath UK
• Warner Robins GA
• Greenville SC
• Retired Hartwell GA

Many deployments and TDY's throughout as the military likes to send us all on. Grateful for my service and wouldn't change a thing, but I don't miss it one damn bit.

 

How did I never see this forum before? And how do I get one of those service badges?

Active Army, 1995-present.

Fort Benning, GA
Fort Hood, TX
Ayers Kaserne, Kirche Goens, Germany
Ray Barracks, Friedberg, Germany
Fort Myer, VA
Fort Campbell, KY
Fort Gordon, GA
Fort Leavenworth, KS
Fort Meade, MD
Fort Leavenworth, KS
Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany
Lexington, KY
Camp Humphreys, South Korea
Carlisle Barracks, PA
MacDill AFB, FL

 

Boot Camp-Ft. Knox, KY
Duty Station-Ft. Hood, TX
Theater-OIF 2 Baghdad, 1CAV

 

I was a Marine Corps brat. I wanted to join but was turned down due to health problems. And at age 18 that was hard to accept. During my lifetime my Dad was stationed at 29 Palms MCB in California. Then in Wichita Falls, Texas for recruiting duty. Then back to 29 Palms. After that he taught ROTC classes at Duke University in Durham, NC. We went back to 29 Palms again where he later retired as the Base Sgt. Major after 30 years as a full time Marine. He served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. My Dad didn't talk about his job much and he died when I was 17. But my Mom told me that he fought on Iwo Jima and his younger brother died there. But they didn't know they were both on the island at the same time. My Mom also told me that he was in the reserves after WWII and worked as a cop in a small town in his home state of West Virginia. Not much went on there and he got bored, so he went back into the Marines. Just wanted to give my Dad props. Oh, I know he did his basic training at Perris Island, South Carolina and he was a Drill Instructor there later on. But I don't know all the places he was stationed before I was born and up to age 3.

 

USAF 7/2003 - 12/2023

Training:
Lackland AFB, TX.
Sheppard AFB, TX.

Assignments:
Nellis AFB, NV.
Tyndall AFB, FL.
Moody AFB, GA. (3rd & 5th assignment)
Randolph AFB, TX.

Deployed:
Chaklala AB & Shabaz AB, Pakistan
Bagram AB, Afghanistan

 

US Navy 1985-1997
Orlando RTC - Aug-Oct 85
NAS Millington for A School (Aviation Electronics Technician) Oct 85 - May 86
NAS Oceana for C School (initial NEC was 6609 IFF) May 86 - Oct 87
VP-8 at NAS Brunswick ME, AIMD Oct 87 - Aug 91, 3 deployments (Iceland, Lajes, Sigonella)
NAS Oceana AIMD Aug 91 - Oct 97, shore duty 91-93, then 4 years on SEAOPDET with the USS George Washington CVN-73, deployed on her first two cruises 93-97

 

United States Air Force 1972-1976
Lackland AFB Basic training 3703 BMTS FLT 1492
Chanute AFB Training, Aircraft Maintenance Specialist, Jet over 2 engine
Warner Robbins AFB, Training
Duty station, Langley AFB, 4500 CAMS, 1st TAC Fighter Wing, EC-135 Section, 6ACCS, CINCLANT