Veterans Day Old Steel Vets Sign In., and all

[Ron Elliott]

Al,....and a great player you are !!! Ron

[Bob Strum]

US Army, Signal Corp, Electronic Warfare, Spook duties. Still classified!

[Mark Edwards]

Al - I can only imagine what it was like to hear music and not have your steel with you. But I can also imagine you sitting there listenting to that music, and picturing where your hands were going, from fret to fret. Al I guess you have to do what you have to do, but I dang sure wouldn't like it.

[Herbie Meeks]

Ron. and all who have signed in, I just had a ,( Hankerin,) there was hundreds of Veteran's, also many still serving in the Military, who are associated with The Forum, I did not have my lap steel with me, but managed to find one,
and like Al, I listened to what radio we could hear way out there, and when I did get back home, went right back to work with the old Gang, Some of them had done a Tour of Duty about the same time,
God Bless and keep you that are still out there pounding the ground,
Also, all who have done their TOD

Herbie

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[M. F. Mayo]

USN 1950-1954....USS Consolation (AH-15)-Hospital Ship...The ship received wounded from battlefield Primarily while anchored at Inchon Harbor, Korea and also other locations. Played steel with a country band while on the Consolation--a great bunch of guys. I was later transferred to the USS Ashtabula (AO-51)-Oil Tanker.

[Joe McHam]

US Navy 1958-1962
Boot San Diego Co. 276
Moffett Field Naval Air Station 58-60
Patrol Squadron VP-22 60-62
Airborne Electronics Tech - Radioman High Speed Morse Code Opr. (CW) Bug..
Active Reserve 1979-1981 DS1
Retired 1994 Dept of Defense 34 years.
Supported Desert Storm.
Enjoyed all those years..



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Excel Superb S-12 8/5

[Herbie Meeks]

Joe McHam, I was pickin the Joints around The Moffett Field area , like Sunnyvale,
Mt.View, San Jose, Campbell. In 58-60, and years before, and after,
We probably crossed paths out there.

Herbie

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[Buck Grantham]

Norman G. Grantham,,,, 5th Airforce 1946--1949 two years in Japan.

[Bob Belcher]

US ARMY 1975-79 Rangers Lead The Way. Was also a Military brat, graduated from Ft.Knox HS 74

[Jeff Garden]

OK, I'll put a word in for "Brand X", the 5th branch of the armed forces....
United States Coast Guard 1981-2001
helicopter pilot
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Naval Air Station Whiting Field
CG Air Station Cape Cod
Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, Scotland
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, AL
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater
Naval Air Station Guantanomo Bay, Cuba
Naval Air Station Roosevelt Roads, PR
and a whole bunch of ship deployments

[Greely Baggett]

1st Marine Air Wing USMC
1972-1979
MCAS Beaufort, SC
MCAS Iwakuni Japan
NAS Millington, TN
Supply Sergeant/Weekend Warrior

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Mullen D-10 royal
Nashville 1000
Tele plus, Martin HD-28
65 Fender Twin
Home Digital 16 Track Recording Studio

"Pick one for Jesus"

[Frank Speights]

US Army 1972-1992. Retired as a SFC/E7. Basic and first AIT at Ft Polk, La. 2d AIT Ft Ben Harrision, IN. Other assignments: Baumholder, Germany, Nurnberg, Germany, Wurzburg, Germany. MFO, Sinai, Pennisula (Egypt), Fort Bragg, NC, Fort Jackson, SC and Ft Benning, Georgia. Primary MOS (71D, Sr Legal NCO). One of my brothers is a retired CW3 (Aviator). He lives in Ozark, Ala. He retired twice from the Army (lst time in 1996 and the second time in 2005).

[Bobby Johnson]

US Army 1971-1974 3rd Armored Cav Reg K Troop
Ft. Lewis, Wa
Yakima Firing Center
Viet Nam
Ft. Bliss. Tx
Job Was Recon

[Willis Vanderberg]

US Navy 1951-1954
USS Salerno Bay CVE 110, Port Lyautey French Morocco, Plane captain on a PBY 5-A.
I had my six string lap steel with me all the way. Never did figure out how Bud Issac's made " That " sound on Slowly..

Bud