The Steel Guitar Forum

To all that have served, past or present, thank you for your service to our country.

We are still the greatest nation, EVER!

To those that have made the ultimate sacrifice, I stand today with a reverence.

Today is about those that have served and those that have indeed made the ultimate sacrifice.

Again, I thank each of you for your service.

U.S. Navy Veteran. Kosovo, OEF and OIF. Republic of Iraq 2004-2010
God Bless America!

To all my brothers

JOE,

I worked with the Screaming Eagles in Tikrit, Iraq.....fine bunch of warriors!!

Thanks for your service brother.

US Navy 1968-1972

US Army 65-67. USARV.

Geo

USN-Amphibs ComPhibRon5 WesPac,,, "Away All Boats",,,, 1956-1961

USMC... Enlisted in 62, Retired in 92. I, II, III MAW, MACS, MASS, TAC 2851/5939. Nam Era Vet to the Bay of Fonseca, Arctic Circle to the Philippines. Miss it...

1975-1980 US Army Field Artillery 9th Inf Div Ft Lewis, WA, 2nd Inf Div, ROK

51-54 Navy, Korea USS Rowan DD 782/USS Cassin B Young DD 793
54 57 Air Force, Lackland, Scott and Selfridge AFB.

USN, Retired CWO-4

Army.

Fort Knox, KY 1965

U S Air Force ..... Late 60's.

U S Marine Corps 1958 - 1962

Served with 1st Anglico FMF and 3rd Recon Bn,3rd Marine Division.

US Air Force, 1955 to 1963.
I was at Hahn AB, Germany - 1956-59, Taipei, Taiwan - 1961/62 for overseas assignments.

Basic Training at Sampson AFB, NY.

The rest of the time was spent at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Ms. Ground (Morse code) Radio Operator School, Instructor at the Ground Radio Operator School. Tech Control school and Instructor in the Tech Control School.

This is the only picture I could find. It had to be June 1955 when I graduated from basic training.

U.S. Army, 3/7 ADA. 24K20

Just a former STRAC Bushwacker who "graduated" to ASA...

RVN, ROK DMZ in '68, West Berlin, etc, etc, etc...

US Army, Alaska 57-59 500th AAA Det DEWLINE Elmendorf AFB & Fire Island

USN 68-72 USS Point Defiance LSD 31

Army 82nd Airborne & 1st Air Cav Viet Nam 65-66

WOW....

What a great response. Reminds me of a SeaBee Unit I was in, "We Build, We fight".....and at the end the day....we play a little steel guitar.

Great hearing from each of you. If any of you plan to attend the Dallas show in 2015, I would love to meet you. First Round of Drinks on me.

Charley

U.S. Army 11E 1P 82nd Airborne 71-74

1967 to 1976 Royal New Zealand Navy - 2 tours of SE Asia, and Mururoa Nuclear tests in the pacific.

USMC 1976-1980. I met Dick Sexton at Cherry Point. Remember when I was new there, the day, my Sgt. took me over to MACS-6 (a similar unit to ours) to introduce me around. He introduced me to the shop and said I play steel guitar. SSgt. Sexton was sitting at a bench working on a GRC-112. His head spun around, he stood up, stuck out his hand and said "Hi son, I'm Dick Sexton". Funny, I remember it like it was yesterday.

USMC is a small small world.

1969 to 1971, US Army. Served at the US Army Aviation Maintenance Command, Coleman Barracks, Sandhoffen, Germany.

U.S. Navy 1972-2004
I've listened to and danced to live country bands in places like Singapore, Guam, and Rota, Spain.