Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Happy Veteran's day. I thank you for your service, :) I just wish it wasn't necessary.
Navy. Corpsman. Two tours to Iraq. Al-Taqqaddum 2005. Al-Asad 2009.
US Navy Aviation Mechanic. Persian Gulf tour 2008
Thank you all for your service it's greatly aprechiated by everyone I know this is an almost meaning less gesture but plus one for your service.
thank you all for your service, i went to iwo jima memorial saturday, it was very somber, and can't wait to get a chance to go to arlington cemetery
Thanks for your service guys. Without people like you we wouldn't be here
Thanks for all the support guys, it seems like there aren't many people who support us anymore!!
Thanks for your service!
And yeah, ikr?I used to be in NJROTC (When I was in high school), so I appreciate all five branches.
United States Marine Corps, did a tour in sunny California 8) (POG)
Quote from: gtfotis on November 12, 2013, 01:44:25 AM
United States Marine Corps, did a tour in sunny California 8) (POG)
Hey, I wouldn't rag on PoG's... Without you guys, who would get paid?! Who would get stuff done behind the scenes?!
We owe you guys a lot!
Quote from: Ertai on November 12, 2013, 01:49:20 AM
Quote from: gtfotis on November 12, 2013, 01:44:25 AM
United States Marine Corps, did a tour in sunny California 8) (POG)
Completely agree.
Hey, I wouldn't rag on PoG's... Without you guys, who would get paid?! Who would get stuff done behind the scenes?!
We owe you guys a lot!
Quote from: Ertai on November 12, 2013, 12:23:21 AM
Thanks for all the support guys, it seems like there aren't many people who support us anymore!!
The media demonizes everything
USMC Iraq 2007/2009 Afghanistan 2010-2011
Star on my combat action ribbon ;)
Do you guys bring your magic cards when you're overseas? I saw a Walking the Planes episode where the interviewed a guy and he said that he did and that he was slowly making his squad play magic lol
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Wasn't intended as an insult. We all have the parts of our forces that are in the mix. We have our Combat Controllers in the AF. Navy has their Seals, I'm simply talking about the majority of ground combatants. Not the individual specialty codes. I've been deployed 10 times at about four months a pop, and in a lot of time over there. We ALL do our part for the cause. I fix the planes that make it happen. But the majority of those rifles getting picked up is our Soldiers and our Marines. That's all I'm saying.
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:14:22 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Wasn't intended as an insult. We all have the parts of our forces that are in the mix. We have our Combat Controllers in the AF. Navy has their Seals, I'm simply talking about the majority of ground combatants. Not the individual specialty codes
Stating that army and marines are the true heroes is quite insulting? What about the sailors who died on the USS Cole of the coast of Yemen? And there's so much more ground troops in other branches besides spec ops.
As an unbiased citizen I just simply thank you all for your service. It's truly heroic what ALL OF YOU GUYS do! It takes a lot of courage to do what you all do and I am truly grateful to have you guys out their promoting peace and protecting our great nations (I'm Canadian so had to make it plural). Anyways we all appreciate your service to your country and we all know that without you guys protecting us the world would be a different place
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:21:47 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:14:22 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Wasn't intended as an insult. We all have the parts of our forces that are in the mix. We have our Combat Controllers in the AF. Navy has their Seals, I'm simply talking about the majority of ground combatants. Not the individual specialty codes
Stating that army and marines are the true heroes is quite insulting? What about the sailors who died on the USS Cole of the coast of Yemen? And there's so much more ground troops in other branches besides spec ops.
And we had the Cobalt towers... I concede though. I don't want to offend you. I've been on enough HR missions personally to know what the tolls of this line of work entells. My sincerest apologies if I did offend you. It was not my intent. We all signed our names up for this. Nothing gets done without every last one of us. And yes, there are the Navy medics and AF SP's and convoys from everyone. I know this. This is not in agrument. My apologies if it came off as such.
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:30:07 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:21:47 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:14:22 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Wasn't intended as an insult. We all have the parts of our forces that are in the mix. We have our Combat Controllers in the AF. Navy has their Seals, I'm simply talking about the majority of ground combatants. Not the individual specialty codes
Stating that army and marines are the true heroes is quite insulting? What about the sailors who died on the USS Cole of the coast of Yemen? And there's so much more ground troops in other branches besides spec ops.
And we had the Cobalt towers... I concede though. I don't want to offend you. I've been on enough HR missions personally to know what the tolls of this line of work entells. My sincerest apologies if I did offend you. It was not my intent. We all signed our names up for this. Nothing gets done without every last one of us. And yes, there are the Navy medics and AF SP's and convoys from everyone. I know this. This is not in agrument. My apologies if it came off as such.
Wasn't trying to make it an argument. Just trying to get my point across. Sorry for taking your words differently than you intended. Speaking of the USS Cole; You know the ship my squadron was assigned to had on of the survivors from the Cole. Had to give him a medical discharge he wasn't ever the same. He was about thirty or so and had let a new seaman cut in front of him in the chow line because he had a watch duty and I guess the kid lost his head from flying shrapnel. Think about the guy every so often he blamed himself. It was pretty sad.
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:36:22 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:30:07 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:21:47 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 08:14:22 PM
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 12, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: Ertai on November 11, 2013, 12:37:14 PM
Hey guys! Just wanted to wish everyone a happy veteran's day!
If anyone here is a veteran like myself then I would love to hear what branch you served and where your tour of duty was or just where you were stationed!!
I, personally, was in the army. I was an 11B. Infantryman. I was stationed all over like in Frankfurt Germany as well as Fort Drum New York. I did both my tours in Iraq, once in Baghdad during the invasion in 2003 and again in a place called Narwhan which is eastern Baghdad in 2005.
Who else is going to a restraunt for free food?!
Hat's off to you sir! I'm getting ready to hit 13 yrs active duty Air Force. No hard combat zones for me but I still have some middle eastern sand at the bottom of a few duffle bags. Hats off to all my Army and Marine bothers. The true war heroes!
I don't get how only army and marines are true war heroes? I was navy and although I never saw actual combat on ground I saw my share of shots fired. Besides the fact that they have navy ground units that go into combat zones. I know enlisted air force that have been in their fair share of foxholes as well. Hell marines don't have medics. Navy corpsman fill that roll and many have paid their dues in the sandbox as well. I believe every branch is due recognition.
Wasn't intended as an insult. We all have the parts of our forces that are in the mix. We have our Combat Controllers in the AF. Navy has their Seals, I'm simply talking about the majority of ground combatants. Not the individual specialty codes
Stating that army and marines are the true heroes is quite insulting? What about the sailors who died on the USS Cole of the coast of Yemen? And there's so much more ground troops in other branches besides spec ops.
And we had the Cobalt towers... I concede though. I don't want to offend you. I've been on enough HR missions personally to know what the tolls of this line of work entells. My sincerest apologies if I did offend you. It was not my intent. We all signed our names up for this. Nothing gets done without every last one of us. And yes, there are the Navy medics and AF SP's and convoys from everyone. I know this. This is not in agrument. My apologies if it came off as such.
Wasn't trying to make it an argument. Just trying to get my point across. Sorry for taking your words differently than you intended. Speaking of the USS Cole; You know the ship my squadron was assigned to had on of the survivors from the Cole. Had to give him a medical discharge he wasn't ever the same. He was about thirty or so and had let a new seaman cut in front of him in the chow line because he had a watch duty and I guess the kid lost his head from flying shrapnel. Think about the guy every so often he blamed himself. It was pretty sad.
Just PM you. I've seen a lot of tears from a few missions. I shake your hand and tip my hand. We are all brothers. I've seen the pain. If you were around I would buy you a beer. I've still got about seven years of it left before I hit my twenty.
The real message that is important is that every solider or marine or whatever you call yourself is equally important, and sure some jobs are quite a bit harder than others, but we all work together.
Quote from: Mattao19 on November 12, 2013, 07:24:18 PM
Do you guys bring your magic cards when you're overseas? I saw a Walking the Planes episode where the interviewed a guy and he said that he did and that he was slowly making his squad play magic lol
Lol, sadly no, I was "outside the wire" way too often for that, wasn't able to bring hardly any "personal" stuff.
0351 Infantry Assaultman... Sadly (again) most of the guys I was in with didn't think Magic was very cool :(
Quote from: Arzair on November 12, 2013, 10:37:43 PM
Quote from: Mattao19 on November 12, 2013, 07:24:18 PM
Do you guys bring your magic cards when you're overseas? I saw a Walking the Planes episode where the interviewed a guy and he said that he did and that he was slowly making his squad play magic lol
Lol, sadly no, I was "outside the wire" way too often for that, wasn't able to bring hardly any "personal" stuff.
0351 Infantry Assaultman... Sadly (again) most of the guys I was in with didn't think Magic was very cool :(
Advantages of being on a ship :)
Quote from: NightWolf on November 12, 2013, 10:44:41 PM
Quote from: Arzair on November 12, 2013, 10:37:43 PM
Quote from: Mattao19 on November 12, 2013, 07:24:18 PM
Do you guys bring your magic cards when you're overseas? I saw a Walking the Planes episode where the interviewed a guy and he said that he did and that he was slowly making his squad play magic lol
Lol, sadly no, I was "outside the wire" way too often for that, wasn't able to bring hardly any "personal" stuff.
0351 Infantry Assaultman... Sadly (again) most of the guys I was in with didn't think Magic was very cool :(
Advantages of being on a ship :)
Couldn't bring myself to run the risk of messing them up. Love collecting as much as playing. :-/
I had pretty much stopped playing my entire army career. I only started back up the last year and a half.