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JD Seller

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I know many of you have served. I would like to THANK each and everyone of you for your service. I am proud to have served and the service treated me very well. I would not be who I am today if not for the US Army.


Army Rangers 1968-1978

Army Reserves 1979-2000

P.S. Maybe the oldest Veteran too. I am not even close at 62.
 
Blessed many ways with a wonderful wife of 42 years, six successful kids, two military, third one volunteered, but heart issue stopped enlistment. Youngest daughter, two degrees from Stanford.... currently in Afghanistan, she's the fifth paratrooper in our family! Proudest time of my life was serving US as a Green Beret, Demolitions Sgt on a Special Forces A-Team.....1964-1967, US and overseas. Best day- pinning those AIRBORNE! wings on my daughter, Jan 29, 2010. All five of us (my brother, me, his two sons, my daughter)...trained on the same towers at Ft. Benning, Ga, 1962-2010!
 
US Army Armor 73-76

US Army Reserves 76-80

Marc
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U.S. Air Force, 1960 to 1964

Lackland, Amarillo, Texas and Dover Delaware.

Aircraft mechanic C-133 and C-124. Trained on B-47's

Gene
 
Army 1966-1969. Had enough military, didn't join reserves. I've come back around. My dad is the longest serving member of his Legion post, over 60 years! He turned 94 last June.
 
USAF June 1974 to August 1980, Vance AFB, Enid, OK. Started out in pilot training then remained at Vance as a T38 instructor pilot.
 
Gary that flightline sure had some good mexican food. We would fly in on Tuesdays or Thursdays when they had the specials in the late 1970s.
 
US Air Force 52-56 Sampson, Laredo. Wchita Falls, Wiesbaden. Germany. HQ USAFE Wiesbaden. 7050th Air Intelligence Wing. 81 years and still growing.
 
We flew into Amarillo quite often in the late 1970s. After ATC gave the base to the city at the end of 1968, we could fly into there without being charged a landing fee.
 
Laughlin, Sheppard, Vance and Columbus are the surviving UPT bases from the various base closings over the past 20 years.
 
USAF 92-96. Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist. 46250. Worked A-10s all 4 years. McChord In WA and Davis Mothan out in AZ. I appear to be the whippersnapper of this bunch!
 
Army Personnel admin specialist 85-88
Airborne Infantry 88-96
Wa ANG Vehicle Mechanic 97-03
Aerospace Warnining and Control 03-13

Retirement ceremony on 30 Nov officially retired 1 Feb 13.

Son is a Airborne Heavy Equipment Mechanic with 18th Abn Corps Ft Bragg, getting ready for his 2nd tour in A$$krackastan.

Leonard
 
USAF, 1965-1968. One tour in Viet Nam '67-'68 with the 483rd Tactical Airlift Wing as an a/c mechanic on the C7-A's 'Caribous'. We supported the forward operating bases from the Delta to the Northern Special Forces FOB's. Just about anywhere the Engineers could build an 800' landing strip.
 
Flew into DM January, 1977. We had an extended layover while they were having F102 drones do takeoffs and landings. I guess you could say that was kind of the beginning of the RPUs. Back then most of the aircraft were still stored, not chopped up. Thousands of cold war fighters along with early model B52s. Kind of an erie site back then.
 
US Navy 1960-64. TM2 (SS). Rode the old "Smoke Boats" out of Key West. Good duty until the Cuban Missle Crises, but that is another story....
Really surprised to see 4 fellow "Squids" here, Zero Bubble!!!
 
We were your escorts over Indian country.
Vf-92 70-73. Heavy 3 were unarmed Vigilanties flying photo planes.
 
Red;

I was there in late 1960 to Jan 1961. This was at the height of the B-52 alerts and every 2 hours 2 airplanes took off and shortly the last 2 landed. Also had B-58 Hustlers and B-66 Canberras.

I am sure things look a lot different there now. Likely a lot quieter too.

Gene
 
Gene I am surprised on the Hustlers. I thought only Grissum and Griffiths had those. Maybe that was the case when they were retired in 1970.
 
U.S. Army June 66 thru March 77. Viet Nam with 93rd engineers 70-71, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska 3 times, Ft. Riley Ks with Big Red 1 when they came back. Ft. Hood 73- 75. Keith
 
We tested the Abrams tank back in the 1970's at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their were two pilot models for testing one made by General Motors and
the other built by Chrysler with the turbine engine. We used this vehicle for drawbar pull
plus we had the M88 Recovery Vehicle gas version connected to the last trailer in reverse when the M1A1 was in the lower gears. Both vehicles pulled over 100k pounds of drawbar pull. Chrysler hired a retired bird colonel to get them to go with the Chrysler version. We had to have a heat deflector made so that hot exhaust wouldn't burn the paint off the dynamometer. This was one of the largest projects I worked on in 41 years. Hal
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USS Saratoga CVA 60 1968 to 1972.EN3
Naval Reserve 72-73-
249th Signal Texas National Guard 1973-1989

Made it up to E7.But couldn't resist telling officers what I thought. So made it out as E4
 
USN: Retired Chief Petty Officer 1984-2006

1984-1989-USS CONSTELLATION
1989-1991-Naval Station Pearl Harbor
1991-1995-VAQ-139
1995-1999-NAVAL BASE BANGOR (Now Naval Base Kitsap)
1999-2002-USS PAUL F. FOSTER (DD-964)
2002-2006-NAVAL BRIG PUGET SOUND
 
Army, 63 to 66 3rd Inf Div Kitzengen Germany. Hq Co A 703rd Maint Bn. Never made it to Southeast Asia.
 
GoodMorning Gary

I was stationed at Cannon from 1970 to 1978 . I was there when the First F 111 S arrived . I also retired from Cannon. I lived on the Base.
I really enjoyed my tour at Cannon , lots of people didn t like it , but My Family did.

John
 
Capt, USAF 4054B/4024B, 1985-1991 Aircraft & Munitions Maintenance Officer, Explosive Ordinance Disposal Qualified, In theater during part of the Gulf War I. Tours in the frozen Northland (B52 H's) Greece (Hellenic Air Force F 104 Starfighters), Florida (F-16's) and Dhahran Saudi Arabia (USAF F-15s, RSAF F-15s and RAF Tornadoes).
 
(quoted from post at 15:26:12 11/11/12) 25th inf div pleiku V.N 1966-67
Bulldog, my cousin was with the 3/4 Cav Sqdn. of the 25th. He was killed in action in Mar. of 65 near Pleiku while trying to secure the highway to Pleiku. Any chance you knew Pfc. Arthur M. (Mickey) Wood, he was a machinegunner from Tennessee?

RIP Mickey, you're not forgotten
 
U. S. Navy 1045-46. Seaman 1st class. I served with the 143rd seabees on Calicoan Island in the Phillipines. I received my discharge in Norman, Ok.
 
Airdale, Naval Air Station, Grosse Ile. 65-69 C119, S2F, R4, T34 and one little jet. Reserve base. 69 years old. Second Petty Officer. Base is private small airport now. George Bush supposed to have trained there. Amelia Earhardt visited. Thanks to all veterans serving their country. Dave
 
USMC 1953 - 1963. Jet fighters most of the time. Deployments to both the Middle East and Far East.
 
Sunday was also the

11th hour
11th day
11th Month cessation of hostilities WW1 1918.

Remberance Day. Lest We Forget.
 

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