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Including civilian accolades
Awards
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Pride
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Time for my own response.......
Apparently, I made SSG when we were out in the field at Fort Campbell doing helicopter gunnery. Instead of just surprising me with a set of orders, the commander and the gang presented me this. It was made using .032 lockwire, 4 sticks, camo netting.....and an MRE box. It is priceless to me.
Apparently, I made SSG when we were out in the field at Fort Campbell doing helicopter gunnery. Instead of just surprising me with a set of orders, the commander and the gang presented me this. It was made using .032 lockwire, 4 sticks, camo netting.....and an MRE box. It is priceless to me.
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SFC Mark Merino
Very good points. It was dairy farms as far as I could remember and the Salmon Run Mall. Richard Greico (21 jump street) lived there and was so pathetic he would have himself paged at the mall to see 3 or 4 people run to the area. I like the snow as well. It made me homesick for PA.
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SFC Beau Deacon, Fort Drum was bittersweet for me. Watertown isn't the greatest city in the U.S.A., but I did enjoy the discipline and camandries while I was there. I meet my best friend there and he was the best man at my wedding. I don't think I will go back since living Hawaii has me spoiled.
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The birth certificate of my little girl! Outweighs all my other accomplishments and achievements (real or imagined).
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SFC Mark Merino, lol, I know you FEEL the need to do so, but hang on. They'll grow up and thank you for not duct taping them!
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SFC Mark Merino
PO1 (Join to see) Totally kidding broseph. Almost 7 billion people on the planet, but I only have 3 babies. They are my little treasures. My very own little clone fire team :)
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
I think all the services had ribbons similar to these.
My duty section awarded appreciation letters for going above and beyond(this was before the achievement medal). and 3day pass to go with. We were allowed to break up the 3 days.. I tacked mine on some regular scheduled days off
(One at time). We still had mileage limits back then.. don’t really recall though .. maybe 300 for E-1 through E-3... 500 E-4 Sgt thru E-6 TSGT. and so on.. was a long time ago in the 70s... Maybe different commands in the AF had their own. I remember I used a set of days off with an extra tacked on and went to Villanova to visit my cousin. Took the train.. his roomy was gone he got permission for me to sack out in the room. I returned back to McGuire the next day.. got back late and had a day to regroup.
I went to the base library and looked in the atlas again to make sure and it was kinda close.. I said it was on the backside of Philly.. subject dropped..
When I was TDY at Fort Lee in ‘71, I was A1C(E-3). They told us we were Army Responsibility .. what they had then, I don’t recall.. it didn’t matter because i stayed in local area.. Some of the Army guys went up to D.C. I knew they were E-4s... didn’t know they weren’t NCOs...SPCs.. The only hard stripe
Army were the instructors and the Mess Stewards, and some others..
One day some of us were returning to barracks and we had a good group of us.. So we fell in and returned at a rout step . I didn’t pay attention to some SGT going the other way.. He seen me later at the canteen by the mini px in our area.. “youse guys some kinda smart asses ?... you’re supposed to march them !” “There were other Army there too.. Some Senior NCOs too.. “Ok Sgt, show me in your regulations that says I have to march them... when you can...
Come back and see me at my 1SGTs office !” I grabbed my empty pop cup and filled it with his beer and guzzled and left it upside
Down and got out of there and back to our barracks.. and being TDY I had a room and not the bay ..
I heard the Ol’ canteen gal saying s’thing about my I.D. Only heard a little.. too much babble..
I stayed outta there the next few days.. that beer I had was cool. Not cold..
My duty section awarded appreciation letters for going above and beyond(this was before the achievement medal). and 3day pass to go with. We were allowed to break up the 3 days.. I tacked mine on some regular scheduled days off
(One at time). We still had mileage limits back then.. don’t really recall though .. maybe 300 for E-1 through E-3... 500 E-4 Sgt thru E-6 TSGT. and so on.. was a long time ago in the 70s... Maybe different commands in the AF had their own. I remember I used a set of days off with an extra tacked on and went to Villanova to visit my cousin. Took the train.. his roomy was gone he got permission for me to sack out in the room. I returned back to McGuire the next day.. got back late and had a day to regroup.
I went to the base library and looked in the atlas again to make sure and it was kinda close.. I said it was on the backside of Philly.. subject dropped..
When I was TDY at Fort Lee in ‘71, I was A1C(E-3). They told us we were Army Responsibility .. what they had then, I don’t recall.. it didn’t matter because i stayed in local area.. Some of the Army guys went up to D.C. I knew they were E-4s... didn’t know they weren’t NCOs...SPCs.. The only hard stripe
Army were the instructors and the Mess Stewards, and some others..
One day some of us were returning to barracks and we had a good group of us.. So we fell in and returned at a rout step . I didn’t pay attention to some SGT going the other way.. He seen me later at the canteen by the mini px in our area.. “youse guys some kinda smart asses ?... you’re supposed to march them !” “There were other Army there too.. Some Senior NCOs too.. “Ok Sgt, show me in your regulations that says I have to march them... when you can...
Come back and see me at my 1SGTs office !” I grabbed my empty pop cup and filled it with his beer and guzzled and left it upside
Down and got out of there and back to our barracks.. and being TDY I had a room and not the bay ..
I heard the Ol’ canteen gal saying s’thing about my I.D. Only heard a little.. too much babble..
I stayed outta there the next few days.. that beer I had was cool. Not cold..
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
We had a few SP5s in our advanced bakers group at Fort Lee in ‘71.. Our baker group had AF and Army we were split pretty even.. 24 of us .. They asked why wasn’t I with the pipeline students.. I’m TDY, not from AF-BMT..I informed them. I took a page of orders but some SSGT from our AF group straightened him out.. I thought we’d have a brou ha-ha.. geez guys don’t get your knickers in a bunch! Them guys were cliquish..
couldn’t handle someone low as an
E-3 In The baker class .. and one that didn’t burn his product.. they were kinda butthurt.. 1LT Nick Kidwell
couldn’t handle someone low as an
E-3 In The baker class .. and one that didn’t burn his product.. they were kinda butthurt.. 1LT Nick Kidwell
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