Military Thread

My Boat

This thread made me realize I have fuckall for pictures of myself in uniform/at work.

Anyway...

The bane of my existence (taken January of this year, 70~ish jets if I remember right)



Sweet scar I got (that's never visible because my hair is never that short) when head meets pointy end of weapons pylon on said evil jets seen above



Pic with some NFL cheerleaders on July 4 last year inside our work tent while deployed to Djibouti. I'm on the far right.

These are the bad boys I work with every day.

Which shop? I'm avionics myself, and if you're a crew chief or avionics on the 22... I am so sorry. Also we're supposed to be getting a new radar package similar to the one on the F-22 in the next few years, or at least we were before all the massive budget cuts recently. I was really looking forward to it too but at this point it looks like my enlistment will end (Jan 2016) before it ever happens at Seymour.

Not military man here - but work on base. Major props for all that you guys do and have done. 'Merica

Goddamn Big Phoenix, that's one nasty skivvy shirt but handsome moto mustache.

I don't know where my pictures are, but I'll see if I can find one of my cum encrusted hesco post for you guys.

Fadaar_sl said:

This thread made me realize I have fuckall for pictures of myself in uniform/at work.

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Same here. I got out and realized I hadonepicture of me in uniform, after 6 years. Kind of wish I had taken a bunch in Iraq or something.

I don't have any pictures atm to post but was USMC from 1991-2003 did infantry my first two years then switched over to scout Sniper until my 5th year then got voluntold to become the units CMS/EKMS Manager until my 10 year 6 month mark and finally had enough. Now I work as a Painter/coater for the F-22's. I'm surprised to see so many Leathernecks here. Semper Fi!

I was in the USAF here. First 3.5 years I was a crew chief on AC-130H gunships and MC-130E Talons down at Hurlburt Flield Florida. We did the rescue the students at Grenada and bombed some shit fuckers in Panama. Then cross trained into Avionics on F-111D's at Cannon AFB in New Mexico. Working Avionics was much more fun but my time on the Gunships was the SHIT. Loved it. Used all that electroncis training towrds my current career for the last 20 years working on Plasma Etchers in the Semiconductor industry for Intel.

Loved working on aircraft but the pay was shit.

This was taken after one of Many Ops in pashmal late 2008.

A repost from the photography thread, these are like the 3 out of the 5 photos I could get released out of 11,000 during my first deployment

Swagdaddy_sl said:

A couple I took overseas

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a_skeleton_03_sl said:

I did a year in the EKMS vault. Torture, pure torture.

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We have that for our job too, but apparently it's a pretty sweet gig. Crypto is such a pain in the dick with fighters/bombers. Especially satcom when you deploy... we never ever use that shit back home, but it's the most important comm system while deployed. Such a pain in the ass sometimes.

Nothing personally to contribute to this pic thread, but a huge thank you to all who serve our country. 5 family members serving, wish I could have joined them.

From Desert Storm, I'm on the left.

Went to MEPS this week and did my ASVAB and my physical for the Army. I've got a couple of things with the court I have to get cleared up before I pick what I'm going to do. I've got 2 speeding tickets (2001 & 2004), a possession of Marijuana charge from 2006, and a DWI from 2009 that all need to get waived I guess. I have a bachelor's degree in history and I scored a 112 on my GT score and passed my physical. I've been told a number of different things so far by co-workers and people who are my friends who have served in the past. Some are telling me to try to go to OCS before I even enlist. Others are telling me that I will have to go enlisted first and serve a year or two before I can try to get commissioned and one guy is telling me OCS is probably out of the question. So I wanted to post here and see if I can get a better answer. Specifically my recruiter says I have to talk to his Commander next week but I will have to enlist first no matter what. I will be 29 on Oct. 31 of this year so I don't have a lot of time. This is something that I'm going to do regardless of the outcome because I'm not making enough money at my current job and this is something I've been weighing for more than just a couple of a months. I've been thinking about this for about 5 years now, but I don't come from a Military family so I didn't know how good of a deal that it can be until I was hit with the gravity of student loans coming off of deferment etc. I'm single and have no kids if that information is needed. Just wanting to get a couple of more opinions right now. I know that I will want to pick a job that translates well in the Civilian world but at my age I am really thinking this is something I will probably want to make a career out of. My mind may change over the next 4-6 years, but I'm here right now to gauge what I should do right now. Thanks in advance for the replies...I stay pretty busy so I may not be able to respond as soon as I'd like.

P.S. This thread was in General last time I think.