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still Serving this Great USA,
add your Branch of service,
Your Outfit, also the years
You served in, God Bless You All
I was in the 354'th. EBC HQ HQ and Svs Co
In the occupation forces of Germany
1953 to 1955
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Herbie

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US Army 1950-1963. Fort Leonard Wood....Wolters AFB....Japan....Fort Sill....Korea....Armed Forces Recruiting OKC....Okinawa.

Engineer Aviation Opns with Air Force
729th Military Police Korea
546th Military Police Ft Sill
Yokohama Engineer Depot Security MP's Japan
Special Operations Army Security Agency

1964-1984 Oklahoma City Fire Department.

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US Army, 1967-69
Ft. Dix, NJ: BCT;
Korea: Classified docs clerk, 2nd Adm. Co., 2nd Division (introduced to steel here by a buddy);
Program Producer/Host, USAE Sp. Svcs. AFKN-TV

(One of the luckiest draftees who ever stepped forward to take the oath.)<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by James Cann on 16 November 2006 at 07:21 AM.]</p></FONT>

Hdqs. Co. 2nd Bat. 6th Inf. Berlin, Germany Sept. 1963-Mar. 1966

Air Force, 1955 to 63.

I was a morse code radio operator then a "tech controller".

I was a tech school instructor at Keesler AFB in the ground radio operator and tech controller tech schools.

U.S. Army Security Agency 1966-1970
Fort Leonard Wood
Defense Dept Language Institute 1966-1967
Ft. Devens, MA 1967-1968
Republic of Viet Nam 1968-1969
Vint Hill Farms, VA 1969-1970

U.S. Navy - Aerial Combat Photographer
Heavy Photographic Squadron -1 (VAP-61)
Nam - 69-72.
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US Navy Retired Jan 59 - Dec 77 Great Lakes, Ill. San Diego, Cal. Morocco, Adak, Alaska, Okinawa, Wash. DC, Norfolk, VA

United States Navy Retired- February 1965 - March 1985. Several Shore Stations East and West coast. Several Ships the Same. 1 Tour of Duty on Shore in Sigonella Sicily. Retired Senior Chief Machinists Mate March 1985.

U.S. Air Force Retired, '74-'96--Elmendorf AFB, Alaska; England AFB, Louisiana (x3); Ebbing ANG Base, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Comiso, Sicily; Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Served 14 years with the 23rd TFW "Flying Tigers". Now, I'm serving military veterans here in Oklahoma City as a Veterans Representative--it's a high honor! <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Carl Williams on 09 November 2006 at 04:53 PM.]</p></FONT>

U.S. Navy 1955-1959

Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Three.
Our job was to keep track of Russian submarines in the North Atlantic. I was on 10 different WW2 aircraft carriers.

USS Antietam CV36
USS Coral Sea CV43
USS Essex CV9
USS Hornet CV12
USS Intrepid CV11 ...Now a Navy museum...
USS Lake Champlain CV39
USS Leyte CV32
USS Tarawa CV40
USS Valley Forge CV45
USS Wasp CV18

If any of you were on any of these carriers please let me know. Thanks.

Harry <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Harry Dietrich on 09 November 2006 at 09:25 PM.]</p></FONT>

US Navy 1955-1959 US Pacific fleet.

Tony

US Army, 1958-1963 Stationed at these posts in this order:

Fort Ord, California
Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Wiley Barracks...Neu Ulm, Germany
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Camp Kaiser, Korea

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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!

Thank you for your service to our country, gentlemen.

We ALWAYS close our shows with a tribute to our Veterans, "They are the Men and Women who Changed the Course of Human History. For this I thank you all!!!

U.S. Air Force, 1978 to 1982.
96 Munitions Maintenance Squadron, Dyess AFB, Texas.
Loaded nuclear bombs on B-52D aircraft.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Mike Ester on 09 November 2006 at 05:17 PM.]</p></FONT>

Army Big Red One Follow Me!
1982 - 1988 with the 2nd Bn 16th Inf Fort Riley KS

2005 -2006 Facility Manager Fort Sill OK Dept Public Works Contract

US ARMY 54-61
Ft Meade 55
Etain France 55-57
Ft Carson 58
Pusan Korea 58-60
Ft McClellen 60-61

U.S. Navy ,served on the U.S.S. Des Moines.
June 1958 to April 1960. Mediterranean sea cruise

Air Force 1965-1970

Lackland AFB TX.
Seymour-Johnson AFB, NC.
Spangdahlem AB, Germany.
Korat RTAFB, Thailand.

Army National Guard 1976-2004 Retired SSGT Commo Chief.

I salute my Brother and Sister Veteran's and the Men and Women on active duty for their service and their Families.

US Army Security Agency - 1963 - 1967

Like my DD215 (a corrected 214) says,

"2 years 10 months 17 days USARPAC."

In other words, they ain't admitting where we were, when we were there, what we were going, or anything else. Suffice it to say that I got to see Korea, RVN (Saigon 64, DaNang, ChuLai, DucPho and Pleiku other times), Thailand, Taiwan, Japan (Drake), Okinawa (Kaedena and Sobe), and a little bit of other interesting points in the SEA area.

U.S. Army 1968-70. Vietnam 69-70 winston may

Infantry 70-72 11B40
Training: Leonardwood/Ord/Benning/Carson
Orders for Nam (sat in Oakland for several days) then diverted to Berlin 71-72 (McNair Barracks)

U. S. Army.....1958-1961
Ft. Carson, Colorado
Ft. Monmouth, Jew Jersey
USA Sig Grp, Ft. Buckner, Okinawa

1942-1945 WWII army Sig.corp,radio Intelligence, Morse code and Japanese Kata Kana code.
2 years 11 months 20 days and 8 hours...al

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