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oldtanker

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Don't want to high jack his thread........


I just reread all of the responses to that thread. I noticed that some replies state that they too have family members serving or had served themselves.

I'm proud to say that both my father, FIL, wife grandfather (Bataan Death March survivor), 3 of my BIL's, my # 1,2 &4 son and myself have all served.

I'm surprised at how many board members here have served and or have children/brothers/sisters/nieces/nephews currently serving and wonder if other types of forums, not dealing with AG related things can boast the same numbers?

Thanks to all of you and your families for serving/supported loved ones serving.

Rick (US Army Ret)
 
I did six years in the Air Force in Aircraft & munitions maintenance was in
Dessert Shield. FIL drove bombers during WWII, was doing petroleum
engineering during Korea so he stayed home for that one. BIL-subs during
Nam. Granddad was Army in the early 30's, in a reserved occupation during
WWII so he didn't get recalled. One of Dad's uncles rode across France with
Patton, Mom's uncle was a Col in the AAC/Air Guard built hospitals for the
Army, Wife's uncle drove bombers like his brother during WWII and was
recalled during Korea, stayed and retired as a tanker driver (KC 97s &
KC135s). One nephew was Coast Guard between Iraq I and Iraq II, another was
Michigan National Guard and did a tour in Iraq II. One Uncle was in the Army
during Korea, fought the war from Ft. Dix, another in the Air Force post
Korea.
 
Oldtanker, you said "wonder if other types of forums, not dealing with AG related things can boast the same numbers?"

I think 'farm' younguns made up the one highest percentages, enlistment wise, in about every war we've been in.
A lot of farm kids from the MidWest and those from the South didn't have college deferments during the Draft period of Viet Nam. I enlisted in the Air Force in '65 on the advice of my father. My family's service history is too involved to post here. My father served with the 31st Infantry (Dixie Division) during WWll. He was a rifle squad leader with the 124th Regt. Combat Team, at the age of 21. They were in the Pacific theater in '44-'45.
Most of my uncles and my father were career soldiers. I think they stayed in the service because it beat trying to go back to cotton farming and our little hometown had no industry to speak of.
 
I'm currently in the WA Air National Guard and getting ready to retire. Son is Active Army and has 1 tour in Afganistan. Dad retired from Air Force in 79, and mom was a nurse in the Army when she and dad met. Brother is Air Force Reserve. Brother in law did 4 years in Air Force. Grandpa was exempt from WW2 cause he was an electrician at for the Manhatten Project in Hanford WA.

Leonard
 
Wife has kin (don't recall relationship exactly) that was with Joshua Chamberlain in the Civil War.

Wife's Great Uncle was Army in WW I.

Her father was Coast Guard in WW II, and stayed in for 36 years.

My Dad was deferred due to a essential defense job.

I'm retired from the Navy. 4 of my 5 brothers served, 2 Army, 2 Air Force. (5th wasn't medically qualified after a motorcycle accident in his teens)

My son was medically retired from the Army after 10 years of service.

My grandson is a serving Marine in Okinawa.

That's six generations of Service. I'm damn proud of every one of them.
 
Nephew just came back from his second Iraq tour two years ago in Iraq with the Third Marine Division, and just graduated from college under the GI Bill. My brother was with the Army Security Agency in Korea for two tours during 'Nam, and I served in the Navy as a submariner on a Polaris and Poseidon boat during 'Nam. My Dad was an Army Combat Engineer from 1941 to 1946, serving in North Africa and Europe, and landed on Omaha beach during the invasion, as did my Uncle Larry. The one guy I never knew was my Uncle Frank, Dad's brother in law. He landed on Omaha with the 29th Division and was killed two weeks after the invasion at St.Lo, and is buried in the American Cemetary at Normandy.
 
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