Veterans, where you served

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Interesting history of the resort. "The Army's 10th Armored Division rolled into Garmisch-Partenkirchen on April 30 that year, while the 101st Airborne Division captured both Berchtesgaden and Chiemsee a week later. As soon as the occupation began, Army Special Services officers wasted no time getting the prewar tourist facilities back into operation." History
 
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65YearsAVol said:
1986-2007, retired Redleg, 1SG, Field Artillery (King of Battle)
Germany, FT Lewis, WA., USANTC FT Irwin, CA (OC-T- Werewolves, BTRY FDC Trainer), FT Sill, OK, New Cumberland, PA, AC/RC OC-T, FT Sill, Iraq, FT Sill. FT Living Room
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How did you like the west coast? It was really nice when I was there. Sad to see it now.
 
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Served Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969
Sept. 66 thru Nov. 66 Basic Ft. Campbell KY.
Jan. 67 to Mar. 67 Armor Recon. Ft. Knox Ky.
Mar. 67 To Sept. Artillery OCS Ft. Sill Okla.
Sept 67 to August 68 Field Artillery Safety/ Fire direction Control Officer Ft. Sill
August 1968 Panama Canal Zone Jungle Warfare and Survival School
Sept. 1968 to Sept. 1969 Vietnam as Group TOC OIC//Fire Direction Control/ Observer in OH-6 Hunter Killer Missions.
 
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Redleg68 said:
Served Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969
Sept. 66 thru Nov. 66 Basic Ft. Campbell KY.
Jan. 67 to Mar. 67 Armor Recon. Ft. Knox Ky.
Mar. 67 To Sept. Artillery OCS Ft. Sill Okla.
Sept 67 to August 68 Field Artillery Safety/ Fire direction Control Officer Ft. Sill
August 1968 Panama Canal Zone Jungle Warfare and Survival School
Sept. 1968 to Sept. 1969 Vietnam as Group TOC OIC//Fire Direction Control/ Observer in OH-6 Hunter Killer Missions.
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Welcome . Rough time to be in. A lot of you guys got a pretty rough welcome home from Nam back then. By '72 they were drawing down, so I was sent to Germany. Fell free to share any good and/or funny stories you might have. Did you get to r&r in australia while you were in?
 
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I you did basic at see campbell. I enlisted delay entry in md. so I went to Dix. A few years back my wife worked at school and was chaperoning a group of ROTC students going to Ft. Campbell. She was eating in the mess hall waiting on her group who showed up a couple hours late for mess. The chicken nuggets seemed a mystery to their old Sgt. and asked what in the **** they were. He spit the nugget half way across the mess hall when the wife calmly answered "mountain oysters." Almost forgot. A few years later we saw him doing a ropes demonstration at the fair in knoxville. He didn't recognize her intil she asked him about mountain oysters. We stuck around and had a nice talk with him.
 
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Redleg68 said:
Served Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969
Sept. 66 thru Nov. 66 Basic Ft. Campbell KY.
Jan. 67 to Mar. 67 Armor Recon. Ft. Knox Ky.
Mar. 67 To Sept. Artillery OCS Ft. Sill Okla.
Sept 67 to August 68 Field Artillery Safety/ Fire direction Control Officer Ft. Sill
August 1968 Panama Canal Zone Jungle Warfare and Survival School
Sept. 1968 to Sept. 1969 Vietnam as Group TOC OIC//Fire Direction Control/ Observer in OH-6 Hunter Killer Missions.
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Absolute favorite book is Low Level Hell. Took serious balls flying in the OH-6, literally poking your nose into bunkers playing bait.
 
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Tri-CitiesVol said:
Absolute favorite book is Low Level Hell. Took serious balls flying in the OH-6, literally poking your nose into bunkers playing bait.
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It definitely got your adrenaline going. Part of my issues when I got back was missing that rush. Noticing your handle-- My Grand Daughter is a senior at ETSU this year.
 
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Redleg68 said:
It definitely got your adrenaline going. Part of my issues when I got back was missing that rush. Noticing your handle-- My Grand Daughter is a senior at ETSU this year.
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If you don't mind me asking ,did you get into anything special to deal with it? Have been seeing things about some guys getting into horses , taking care of, training and so forth?
 
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me_grag53 said:
If you don't mind me asking ,did you get into anything special to deal with it? Have been seeing things about some guys getting into horses , taking care of, training and so forth?
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fishing and solitude. I might spend two or three days at a time bass fishing and enjoying nature. I finally took a job doing long haul trucking to be by myself. Did that for six years and then by late 70's I had my act back together and rejoined productive life.
 
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Good deal. My son got me a lifetime sportsman with trout stamp ,mainly for fishing a few years ago. I enjoy most wading the creeks and the local ponds. Ever make it out around Branson Mo.? It is a fishermans dream with the 3 lakes. Interesting history too. You see the Shepherd of the Hills book everywhere. Tourist and fishing destination since the early 1900s.
 
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me_grag53 said:
Good deal. My son got me a lifetime sportsman with trout stamp ,mainly for fishing a few years ago. I enjoy most wading the creeks and the local ponds. Ever make it out around Branson Mo.? It is a fishermans dream with the 3 lakes. Interesting history too. You see the Shepherd of the Hills book everywhere. Tourist and fishing destination since the early 1900s.
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Wife and I were in Branson 3 years ago. Watched the play about Jesus Christ and visited the shores of Table Rock. Beautiful country!.
 
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Redleg68 said:
Wife and I were in Branson 3 years ago. Watched the play about Jesus Christ and visited the shores of Table Rock. Beautiful country!.
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If you get back out there fishing my brother in law reccommended the end of Taneycomo down toward the dam for some large bass. He had a place close to the lake til he passed . It's mostly fished for trout closer to town unless things have changed since I was there. It has been quite a while since I was there though. . The play sounds great. God is Good.
 
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me_grag53 said:
Not a bad list of stations until Iraq. What was your training? And favorite place?
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Acquisition. Pretty evenly split between engineering and program management. Our favorite place was Colorado. It's the only place we considered moving to other than Texas after retirement but my wife wanted to be by her family and I had promised her I'd move her back when we left Texas.

They got me with Iraq. 18 1/2 years in at that point, I wasn't going to decline and separate. I returned home 6 months prior to going on terminal leave.
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Acquisition. Pretty evenly split between engineering and program management. Our favorite place was Colorado. It's the only place we considered moving to other than Texas after retirement but my wife wanted to be by her family and I had promised her I'd move her back when we left Texas.

They got me with Iraq. 18 1/2 years in at that point, I wasn't going to decline and separate. I returned home 6 months prior to going on terminal leave.
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Iraq was a "duty station" and not a deployment?
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Acquisition. Pretty evenly split between engineering and program management. Our favorite place was Colorado. It's the only place we considered moving to other than Texas after retirement but my wife wanted to be by her family and I had promised her I'd move her back when we left Texas.

They got me with Iraq. 18 1/2 years in at that point, I wasn't going to decline and separate. I returned home 6 months prior to going on terminal leave.
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Never been to Colorado. My son went and all I got was a shirt. Would really like to go. What was the station in Va.? Dad was at the Army Transportation Agency on 22nd St. Downtown D.C. , last station. Had a summer job helping pour concrete around fairfax circle and arlington. Lived in Montgomery Co. Md. for about 8 years. Liked it back then. Incredible history . School trips to the Smithsonian, Zoo , and even got to see the Mona Lisa at the National Art Gallery.
 
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me_grag53 said:
Never been to Colorado. My son went and all I got was a shirt. Would really like to go. What was the station in Va.? Dad was at the Army Transportation Agency on 22nd St. Downtown D.C. , last station. Had a summer job helping pour concrete around fairfax circle and arlington. Lived in Montgomery Co. Md. for about 8 years. Liked it back then. Incredible history . School trips to the Smithsonian, Zoo , and even got to see the Mona Lisa at the National Art Gallery.
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I spent a year at the NRO (Chantilly) and 3 working on the Air Staff (Rosslyn). We were supposed to be in the Pentagon but I got there in 03 and between 9/11 and the renovations that started before 9/11, a lot of organizations were farmed out in the local area.
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
I spent a year at the NRO (Chantilly) and 3 working on the Air Staff (Rosslyn). We were supposed to be in the Pentagon but I got there in 03 and between 9/11 and the renovations that started before 9/11, a lot of organizations were farmed out in the local area.
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