Memorial Day...share your family memories MENA BOARD

[Nagishkaw 510]

My father was a pilot in WW twice. He flew B-52's. I still have his bomber jacket and old photographs . I lost some friends in Nam.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Correction, it was a B-17, not 52.

[JeanneVictoria 55]

I was born and raised in the military. I knew nothing else but the military. My whole family including myself, my twin sister, uncles and my brother were military. I loved this life and treasure all the memories. It's a good life, but you also give up many things. I learned that love for country was the greatest gift !! My twin and I were Air Force, dad and grandfather were Army and my brother was Navy. What a fantastic life!!

[Ban Hammer 13,554]

Yes charles, I was in a unit, I was a nurse but was connected to 101st, not the famous 82. Ft. Benning, know this base well. I will find you a picture of me dressed in green, not the kind they wear now, I wore the fitigues that were worn in Vietnam, we didn't get the fitigues you see now until the early 80's. I field tested one time some great brown boots, they were awsome, didn't have to polish them or anything. Ex-husband, I can get all the ships he flew on, there are a ton and some of them are not even in service now. Fryar Drop Zone, the most famous drop zone of all time. Also was attached to this unit for a year and and half 14th Field Combat Support Hospital.

you were not in the special forces - the 101st is not special forces, nor is the 82nd.

and that uniform you're referring to is the old permanent press, that went out in the early 80's and was replaced by the bdu.

[SaadBell 0]

you were not in the special forces

I was connected to the special forces, ok, I am not Rambo, never said I was, in fact I am not a fighter at all. So let's say I never mention my military experience again. Sorry to have offend you, truly I am, I am not sure what I ever did to you, to really dislike me, but I can feel your dislike for me through the forum, once again truly I am sorry if I offended you, I won't say anything ever again about the military. I hope you have a great day. Blame it on the wording of my post, which I am sure you will point out anytime you have spare moments, but I blame it on not being brilliant, I am just scraping normal in my smarts. So if I offend anyone truly I never meant to do that.

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Yes charles, I was in a unit, I was a nurse but was connected to 101st, not the famous 82. Ft. Benning, know this base well. I will find you a picture of me dressed in green, not the kind they wear now, I wore the fitigues that were worn in Vietnam, we didn't get the fitigues you see now until the early 80's. I field tested one time some great brown boots, they were awsome, didn't have to polish them or anything. Ex-husband, I can get all the ships he flew on, there are a ton and some of them are not even in service now. Fryar Drop Zone, the most famous drop zone of all time. Also was attached to this unit for a year and and half 14th Field Combat Support Hospital.

you were not in the special forces - the 101st is not special forces, nor is the 82nd.

and that uniform you're referring to is the old permanent press, that went out in the early 80's and was replaced by the bdu.

Charles I normally keep my thoughts to myself but in this case I do believe you were out of line in your response to GG. She is a great woman and you did her a great injustice. She served her country, did her duty and was proud to post her thoughts on the forum. She is a veteran so please honor her.

[palilover 1]

I think so too. GG don't let one bad one get in your way. Speak out as you want. We've got freedom of speech here. Remember, you served to help us keep that. So speak what you want.

[Ban Hammer 13,554]

you were not in the special forces

I was connected to the special forces, ok, I am not Rambo, never said I was, in fact I am not a fighter at all. So let's say I never mention my military experience again. Sorry to have offend you, truly I am, I am not sure what I ever did to you, to really dislike me, but I can feel your dislike for me through the forum, once again truly I am sorry if I offended you, I won't say anything ever again about the military. I hope you have a great day. Blame it on the wording of my post, which I am sure you will point out anytime you have spare moments, but I blame it on not being brilliant, I am just scraping normal in my smarts. So if I offend anyone truly I never meant to do that.

you were not "connected" either to the sf......you can play semantics all you want, but there is a world of difference between serving in the sf or being "connected" to the special forces as compared to serving in a 911 unit like the 101st (which you briefly did) or the 82nd. while i served 6 months in turkey and northern iraq as part of operation provide comfort, later known as operation northern watch, i was in the jsotf there - we had special forces from the 5th sf group assigned - yet i'll never try to say i was part of a sf unit as i never held a sf mos, was awarded a ranger tab, nor an assigned billet in a sf unit!

as for your earlier statement, you claimed the status of being in the army special forces, something that is untrue, nor can you claim it by being in the 101st or 82nd. sf and the 101st/82nd are two entirely different animals.

I served in the Army Special Forces, than I married a naval officer, so I just lived the whole military life for a long long time.

you can write this off in your assumption that i dislike you (which is also untrue) or you might consider that i dislike grand claims to something that i know is patently untrue. i suggest you do some research on what special forces really is and spare us, me in particular, more overblown war stories.

[nunyab 0]

Well... I am the 5th generation service member... I can trace a great great great (how many??) uncle who died at the Battle of Bull Run.. the only living thing was his horse comanche (sp sorry) Captain Keogh on my mother's side, my grandparents in WW11. My grandfather firing on Omaha beach while his brother was in the German Army trying on the same beach trying to figure out how to give himself up to the U.S. and live (he was forced to serve). my Uncles in Veitnam.. one of which was my hero who just passed away from complications of the war. My father in the Navy and myself 11 yrs served all over the world in different "conflicts" and "humanitarian" efforts in the Army Reserve (not reserve anymore).

Am I proud ooooohhh Yeeeaaahhhh I am also proud to have served and being an American Muslimah. It can be done. May God bless all of the service members and their families weither apart or together it always seems hardest on the families we leave behind.

[SaadBell 0]

Ok Charles,

I never served in anything; I have no idea what I talk about, and am a complete idiot. Ok feel better now; I sure hope so, so from now on, I am nothing, ok. You are the expert in everything, and a lot younger too, I am stupid and lying all the time, why I would lie about the military is beyond me, I think a better lie is I was a super model. But nope, I have no idea who the hell I am anymore. Thanks for your kind words, and being in a hormonal mood, I have cried, just like the bully in the sand box who knows more than anybody here. Nothing better than menpause with no hormones. I also made my own dog tags because I think it was cool. I really am a 22 year old super good looking girl here to yank your chain. Oh and my pictures of myself in the military, I am sure they are not me either, oh maybe I am a 40 year old male. So for now, I step out of this.

Can this day get any better, that freak from Morocco just wrote me like 8 times begging me to write him back, now that is something I wish was a big lie.

[Ban Hammer 13,554]

Ok Charles,

I never served in anything; I have no idea what I talk about, and am a complete idiot. Ok feel better now; I sure hope so, so from now on, I am nothing, ok. You are the expert in everything, and a lot younger too, I am stupid and lying all the time, why I would lie about the military is beyond me, I think a better lie is I was a super model. But nope, I have no idea who the hell I am anymore. Thanks for your kind words, and being in a hormonal mood, I have cried, just like the bully in the sand box who knows more than anybody here. Nothing better than menpause with no hormones. I also made my own dog tags because I think it was cool. I really am a 22 year old super good looking girl here to yank your chain. Oh and my pictures of myself in the military, I am sure they are not me either, oh maybe I am a 40 year old male. So for now, I step out of this.

Can this day get any better, that freak from Morocco just wrote me like 8 times begging me to write him back, now that is something I wish was a big lie.

now that we're done with you trying to get the sympathy vote............

i doubt i'm much younger than you as i'm 46. i served between 1980 to 2000, with assignments ranging from a line battalion up to eac and joint commands. i spent 20 years in the army plus i've worked for the army for the past 7 years since i've been retired. my overall view is your story just does not pass muster. for example, i can still recall every unit i was assigned to and the time frame, yet you can't. i know to the month and year what mos i held, you didn't know. i've never met anyone who served in the army that can make the leap in logic of being in the special forces sf qualification requirements link with a regular army assignment location us army assignment locations worldwide link.

it sounds to me like you were in the army for less than a full enlistment; indeed it sounds like you were in and out in less than a year, which would explain the errors on your part.

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

you were not in the special forces

I was connected to the special forces, ok, I am not Rambo, never said I was, in fact I am not a fighter at all. So let's say I never mention my military experience again. Sorry to have offend you, truly I am, I am not sure what I ever did to you, to really dislike me, but I can feel your dislike for me through the forum, once again truly I am sorry if I offended you, I won't say anything ever again about the military. I hope you have a great day. Blame it on the wording of my post, which I am sure you will point out anytime you have spare moments, but I blame it on not being brilliant, I am just scraping normal in my smarts. So if I offend anyone truly I never meant to do that.

you were not "connected" either to the sf......you can play semantics all you want, but there is a world of difference between serving in the sf or being "connected" to the special forces as compared to serving in a 911 unit like the 101st (which you briefly did) or the 82nd. while i served 6 months in turkey and northern iraq as part of operation provide comfort, later known as operation northern watch, i was in the jsotf there - we had special forces from the 5th sf group assigned - yet i'll never try to say i was part of a sf unit as i never held a sf mos, was awarded a ranger tab, nor an assigned billet in a sf unit!

as for your earlier statement, you claimed the status of being in the army special forces, something that is untrue, nor can you claim it by being in the 101st or 82nd. sf and the 101st/82nd are two entirely different animals.

I served in the Army Special Forces, than I married a naval officer, so I just lived the whole military life for a long long time.

you can write this off in your assumption that i dislike you (which is also untrue) or you might consider that i dislike grand claims to something that i know is patently untrue. i suggest you do some research on what special forces really is and spare us, me in particular, more overblown war stories.

Charles, she was probably at that time, in what was considered a "hot "unit. To give you some background on me, I have lived at both Fort Campell, the old home of 5th group, which was Fort Bragg previously ( which still houses 7th group and JSCO and SWC. I have been around Delta, Shadow and group from 1985 foward when I enlisted in intel. I was first in voice intercept but became an interrogator and worked hand in hand with seals, recon and group. She was most likely in a special response group but the average person is not going to know enough about these other groups to even align themselves with them.

I could never say that I had an 18 mos or was a part of an A team. Are there groups more specialised than even group? Yes,Delta is one of them but belive it or not there are groups HIGHER than Delta called Shadow. I dont even know who is attached to shadow. No one knows . So I doubt Ganja was in Shadow group but there are women believe it or not working out of the Special Warfare Center at Bragg that do all kinds of jobs we dont know about. I know one herein Orlando that is a member of a team that goes in and out of Haiti at a moments notice and she doesnt even live anywhere near a military base.

I never assume anything...especially after working with counter intel people

[SaadBell 0]

OMG, are you serious, do you need to see my military discharge, I am not sure you would believe it, if I did that. What do you want from me. This is a long time ago for me, and yes sir, I am older than you. My ex-husband is retired navy, I never retired from the Army, never said I did. I served in the Army went to ranger school in Benning, did some time in Germany, but to be honest, I have had a lot of life since those years. I married while I was still serving in the Army, got out, put all my stuff away from those days, because my ex-husband was a lot like you, didn't want to even see the stuff, and went on to be married for 23 years to a naval officer. So if my memory isn't like sunshine blame it on my MS, if you even know what that is. I honestly don't sit and think about my Army days, and I really have so much more interesting stories than that, so it is not something I go around and talk about day in and day out. Like I already said before, I NEVER DID ANYTHING, ok drop it. For you, since you run this place, I will never speak of it again. Would you prefer me to never come back, than I will do that, since you think I am nothing but a liar? Just give me the heads up, I will leave, not a big deal.

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

Ok Charles,

I never served in anything; I have no idea what I talk about, and am a complete idiot. Ok feel better now; I sure hope so, so from now on, I am nothing, ok. You are the expert in everything, and a lot younger too, I am stupid and lying all the time, why I would lie about the military is beyond me, I think a better lie is I was a super model. But nope, I have no idea who the hell I am anymore. Thanks for your kind words, and being in a hormonal mood, I have cried, just like the bully in the sand box who knows more than anybody here. Nothing better than menpause with no hormones. I also made my own dog tags because I think it was cool. I really am a 22 year old super good looking girl here to yank your chain. Oh and my pictures of myself in the military, I am sure they are not me either, oh maybe I am a 40 year old male. So for now, I step out of this.

Can this day get any better, that freak from Morocco just wrote me like 8 times begging me to write him back, now that is something I wish was a big lie.

now that we're done with you trying to get the sympathy vote............

i doubt i'm much younger than you as i'm 46. i served between 1980 to 2000, with assignments ranging from a line battalion up to eac and joint commands. i spent 20 years in the army plus i've worked for the army for the past 7 years since i've been retired. my overall view is your story just does not pass muster. for example, i can still recall every unit i was assigned to and the time frame, yet you can't. i know to the month and year what mos i held, you didn't know. i've never met anyone who served in the army that can make the leap in logic of being in the special forces sf qualification requirements link with a regular army assignment location us army assignment locations worldwide link.

it sounds to me like you were in the army for less than a full enlistment; indeed it sounds like you were in and out in less than a year, which would explain the errors on your part.

For her it was considered a special unit. The pathfinders in Campbell consider themselves very hooyah and so does the 82nd. The SF groups consider themselves to be "elite" , then DELTA considers themselves better than everyone. But to be honest with you, the most inshape and insane I ever saw were the NAVY seals and Marine Recon. I lived and worked around 7th group, 1st was in Washington State but they were always running around Bragg, of course you have 10th and they are the mountain people.. then of course 5th that became 3rd and frankly until Desert Storm came around and training the Taliban in the late 80s, the only thing they ever did was Operation Bright Star in Egypt once a year and sit in the desert. Its only been recently that group has been super active. The reality is in Haiti it was the seals that were dying all over the place...group only since the Iraq war has become relevant again in my opinion ( leaving out the hostage rescue in Iran by Delta) and certain very infrequent operations. Lets get real, groups main job was to train the very people who turned against us and became AL Qaeda. We were planning for Gitmo in the early 1990s and lining up training groups long before 911.

I saw all kinds of things Charles, and I never ever even with all my time at Bragg and around SWIC and JSOC EVER ASSUME ANYTHING about who anyone is. I really saw too much to ever do that....

[SaadBell 0]

Let me guess, you are an enlisted man, maybe a first sergeant, or did you become a top. I don't see you as a warrant officer, Right out of high school, joined up and made a career, did I guess that right?