SGT Elliott Cooney

Army | Indirect Fire Infantryman (Mortarman)

Dates of Service: Dec 1980 - Jun 2004

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Served With CSC 1/114 IN, 50 AR, CSC 3/32 IN. 7th ID, K Troop 3/11 ACR, A Co And HHC 4/17 IN. 7th ID(L), 5th Lanes Brigade, 78th IN. 456th Transportation CO. 310th Sustainment Command, And HHC 1/26 IN. 1st ID. Break In Service In 1990. Total Service Is 17 Years 9 Months. Medically Retired In 2002, Discharged In 2004 And Now 100% T&P Threw The VA. Served 2 Tours In Germany And Combat In Panama.

Military Experiences

Jun 1999 - Aug 2002

Fire Direction Center (FDC)

HHC 1/26 IN. 1st ID | Ledward Kaserne

Arrived In Germany For My Second And Last Tour In 1999. My Unit Was Already In Kosovo So I Missed That Deployment. In 2000 My PTSD Started To Hit Me Hard And I Spent 6 Mo. At Landstuhl AMC. Then Medivac To Walter Reed AMC. After 18 Mo. There I Was Medically Retired In 2002, And Sent Home. Homeless For 2 Years And I Missed A Medical Board And Was Discharged In 2004. Joined The Military Sept. 1980 And Except For A Break In Service In 1990 Served A Total Of 17 Years 9 Months In A Uniform. I Served In A Armored Div. 3 Infantry Div. A Cavalry Regiment, A Light Infantry Div. And A Transportation Company. I Would Do It All Over Again...

Oct 1989 - Feb 1990

Fire Direction Chief

HHC 4/17 IN 7th ID(L) | Fort Ord, CA

Deployed To Panama For Operations Nimrod Dancer And Just Cause As A Member Of Joint Task Force South. While There Attended Jungle School At Fort Sherman In November 1989.

Aug 1984 - Aug 1986

Driver And Gunner

K Troop, 3rd SQDRN, 11th ACR | Mc Pheeter's Barracks, Germany

Driver Than Gunner On A 107mm Mortar. Served In Reforger's Certain Fury, Central Guardian, And Certain Sentinel... Served On Border Operations At OP Romeo, OP Romeo Forward, OP Alpha, And OP India. Was There For The Transition Of The M60A3 To The M1. And To The M2 Bradley