Rando military pics

Thought I had posted this one.
My FIL.
P51 Maint Crew Chief.
I fixed everything that ever broke in his house through the 1990's till he died in 2004, because he was all thumbs. When he told me what he did in WWII I said to myself... (HOLY SHIT)...

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RN47 said:
Your First Sergeant? Holy shit, man. I thought Slocum came in as a CSM...

True story-- I worked with Steve Slocum at XVIII Airborne Corps my last year in the Army before retiring; he was a civilian then running the FBOC.
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He's still here in Fayetteville. Actually, Slocum and his wife Faith are preparing to relocate to Florida.
 
2006 ish...

Me with my first big coke bust somewhere off the coast of South America. I was stationed with PACTACLET, on LEDET-107. Our ledet was riding on a Navy frigate.

We boarded the suspect vessel and they immediately scuttled. We got most of the coke off before it sank to the bottom of the ocean. The boat sank in less than an hour. We brought the coke and the bad guys back home for prosecution.

That was about 10 metric tons of pure cocaine...

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January '97. Ft Irwin, CA, aka NTC. All our names were painted on that rock after this pic was taken, so my name is now painted on a national monument. Turns out we were training with 2nd ACR to support in Bosnia later that year.

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July '98, on the side of some mountain in Bosnia.

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Late summer, '02 or '03, on a JCET with a Bundeswehr OpInfo Bn. Some village near-ish Mayen, Germany.

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Sadly, I really don't have many more than these. I'm horrible on both sides of the camera & tend to avoid them.
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Good Ol NTC
 
Back When My Knees n Back Where on The Same Page. I’m Far Right Squating. Good Ol Guard for the military. Avg a Good 15 Pts 6 Assist 3 Rebs 2 Stls. Wasn’t but so big still haven’t reached 6ft but could dunk. Don’t laugh at my height 5’8 163 those days.:confused:
 

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I remember one time, sitting around, eating MREs with the guys. We were looking to see what we got and trading things with each other.

One dude said, "Anybody wanna trade something for my MINE-STRONE soup?"

We were all like, wtf is MINE -STRONE soup?

It was Minestrone, but that dumb ass had no idea he was mispronouncing it.
 
Sensei Pew Pew said:
Back When My Knees n Back Where on The Same Page. I’m Far Right Squating. Good Ol Guard for the military. Avg a Good 15 Pts 6 Assist 3 Rebs 2 Stls. Wasn’t but so big still haven’t reached 6ft but could dunk. Don’t laugh at my height 5’8 163 those days.:confused:
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JBLM?
 
Chuckman said:
Commissioning day....

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Me and Gunny....who never smiled. He was our Sergeant Instructor (enlisted Marine recruits get DIs, all officer candidates get SIs....). He was awesome.

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Not saying you don't look good in your pearly whites, but the only thing in that pic that really caught my eye was the leg teaser in the bottom right corner...
 
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Great Uncle Wayne, Camp Perry WWII. I have a letter he wrote to my grandfather talking straight shit because grandpa worked the factories instead of serving active duty. There are stories of Wayne being "off" after the war. Pretty sure he served in the Pacific.

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Chuckman said:
We had I think three or four females, none of whom were ugly, and one or two were just hot.
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My whole life... For as far back as I can remember, my dad used to always so, "There's no such thing as an ugly girl."

Haha! I guess it's all a matter of perspective!
 
Kenya '98. We stayed at Laikipia Air Base for the exercise and had a two day layover in Nairobi before the flight home. The Embassy bombing happened after we were wheels up. We had no clue it happened until after we landed and got off the charter. I went back in '99. Things were much different on the second trip.
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Kuwait '99. 5th Group setting up daisy-chained claymores...again...getting ready to blow out the windows in our vehicles...AGAIN. :D
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NTC in '99 I think. I was in a small USASOC signal battalion and we did our NTC rotations at Fort Hunter Liggett near Monterrey California. :cool: My damn elevation servo died on our SATCOM antenna and this was what I wanted to do with it.
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CHRIS
 
I was just thinking... How amazing would it be if they had cheap cameras in ancient Rome?

The Roman soldiers would have taken pics just like @CHRIS_WNC ...

"This is me with a lion. This is me with a rhino. This is me with a Visagoth."

Hahaha
 
The fact that this sign was necessary in IDF bunkers that reeked of piss and cigarettes always made me die a little on the inside

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Should’ve scored an Army nurse ( O-3 type with private quarters) like I did. She had a real bed. Would get off a week of long patrols or whatever we were doing and it was R&R time. Until I had to go back out the next day but whatever
 
11B CIB said:
The fact that this sign was necessary in IDF bunkers that reeked of piss and cigarettes always made me die a little on the inside

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Should’ve scored an Army nurse ( O-3 type with private quarters) like I did. She had a real bed. Would get off a week of long patrols or whatever we were doing and it was R&R time. Until I had to go back out the next day but whatever
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One of my deployments to Iraq, I ended up on a British base with 600 guys and 2 girls. Those two girls were 100% easy... And they had multiple STDs. Dudes knew it, and they still did them!

There was one empty watch tower with an old mattress dragged into it. Everybody knew that was the secret shagging station. Gross.

Thank God I was smart enough not to walk in there...
 
I hooked up with a nympho cougar Army LPN from the Combat Support Hospital on our camp in Bosnia. She was batshit crazy, but we had pretty comfy digs there & it was a great way to while away the time over there, when I wasn't out in the road or in the gym.

Being in a medical unit then, there were a decent number of chicks, but the odds were still stacked against you.
 
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As 20 y/o 11C SPC in '90 & re-classing into the medical field at Ft. Sam Houston, I discovered most of the tales about that place were true. Place was covered up with horny 18 y/o females away from home for the first time. ;)

ETA- I actually met my wife there, a bright eyed & bushy tailed 18 y/o 91B medic student, though we didn't get married till several years later.
 
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When I was a young corpsman, before I was married, I was nailing every nurse I could, because I could. That was about the only place where E-O relationships were unofficially OK (but only if the E wasn't in the chain of command with the O). A lot of 'front-line' nurses were young and almost entirely clinical. A group of us kept a ledger of 'high scores' (highest rank). Mine was O4; she was getting divorced from her Marine husband.
 
Chuckman said:
When I was a young corpsman, before I was married, I was nailing every nurse I could, because I could. That was about the only place where E-O relationships were unofficially OK (but only if the E wasn't in the chain of command with the O). A lot of 'front-line' nurses were young and almost entirely clinical. A group of us kept a ledger of 'high scores' (highest rank). Mine was O4; she was getting divorced from her Marine husband.
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When I was an E3, I banged an E8... She was not in my chain of command. And, she was not attractive at all. That's a night I'd rather forget...

But, I STILL HAD SEX!

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A few more (I have I think 150 or so...).

This was our main school building. That place was steeped in naval heritage and history.

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The following two pics are damage control training. Every sailor is a firefighter and contributes to damage control, regardless of job or specialty. This 'tank' was the size of one of those Pods storage units, it had several 'breaches' that had to get patched and shored up. The water would come up mid-chest on me (5' 8"), which sucked for people shorter than me.

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The Chief on the left was one of our two NCO instructors. The red rope signifies he is qualified as a RDC, Recruit Division Commander, the Navy equivalent of a DI/DS. The Gunny was our Sergeant Instructor. Officers/officer candidates get SIs, enlisted Marines at boot get DIs. Prior to training officers/candidates, all SIs had to spend a tour as a DI. They were both great guys.

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There is a reason they call officer school "knife-and-fork school." We had several classes on etiquette followed by a formal dining-in. A lot of books from that school I tossed, I kept the etiquette/military customs.

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@Long_Hunter , this is the one who owns that leg in that first pic..... In spite of the scowl, she was great to hang out with, a lot of fun.

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Me on the right and one of my roommates. If I recall I had just ripped a SBD and he is stifling a laugh.

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The DC tank....

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The guy on the left was going into intel. Smarter than hell, spoke, like, 8 languages. The guy on the right was class comedian.

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11B CIB said:
Somewhere on the streets of Baghdad
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Poorly aimed IED strike (2008?)
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It does rain in the desert. This is one of the few times I used a 240B instead .50 cal. We are staging vehicles getting ready to leave the IZ heading out Assassin’s Gate up to Haifa St
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Drill Sergeant School graduation day (I was class Honor Grad) summer of 2010 (photo had wife in it, requested I take it down)
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I recognize that Rough Rider.
 
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