ok grunts, jarheads, squids, coasties, airedales and the like, dig up the patches, insignias and such, post "associations" you belong to or links to your unit sites and such. where did ya serve , what did ya do?
ok military types, show off the insignia
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Oh, Mike, you don't want me to try to describe a 30+-year career in pictures of patches, plaques, coffee mugs, ball caps, whatever. I'll put up two pics. There will be many folks who've not really much of a clue exactly what they're looking at...and that's cool, why should they? No big deal. But there will be a few who know.
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Don't think I have any - must be so ugly the camera cracked. Closest I've got is one of me at the end of the Rock Run in Gibraltar (2.6 miles, 1200 ft climb) in sports kit with my rocket pouch on looking VERY sweaty, and some photos of a series of bushes (one of which might contain me) putting in an attack.
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For those that don't know...I had the privilege to share one of those flat tops with Fossil. Same cruise, same time.
(bottom - middle pic. USS Ranger)
(bottom - middle pic. USS Ranger)
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The guy in the last photo on the right looks just like my dad....back in his navy dayz...
Ok. One pic from Basic Combat Training at Ft Dix, NJ in 1971...The other is the insignia we wore at Headquarters, Headquarters Battery, V Corps Artillery at Cambrai-Fritsche Kaserne in Darmstadt Germany in 72 & 73. MOS (2) - 05B20 Radio Operator & 05C20 - Radio Teletype Operator...Spent 6, 2-week tours in the infamous Red Mud of Graffenwoehr & a couple more in "the field" in the Fulda Gap, makin the Russkis nervous...
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actually i feel kinda dumb right about now, have to hook up my old computer to dig out my old military photo's, will do so soon but i probably should have discovered this before i started the thread 
actually i feel kinda dumb right about now, have to hook up my old computer to dig out my old military photo's, will do so soon but i probably should have discovered this before i started the thread
Don't worry I am still looking for the box with all my photos as I didn't have a computer to put them on at the time !
Don't feel bad. All of mine are old slides that I had to do with a florescent flashlight on a scanner when after 35 years all of a sudden I had to get a unit website up in 18 days. I wish they had been photos. 
actually i feel kinda dumb right about now, have to hook up my old computer to dig out my old military photo's, will do so soon but i probably should have discovered this before i started the thread
Cough up the photos.......:D
Brotherbart I too hitched a ride on the USNS Walker, on my way to Korea, Jan 1953.
Yeah I am old, but I still make it to the woods, with my 12 year old 372XP
Yeah I am old, but I still make it to the woods, with my 12 year old 372XP
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Battalion(62), SEABEE Team(6207), SEABEE Unit(401) tours in four years. First tour was at this location:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chau_Doc
I was still 22 years old and an Ensign when I returned from the Chau Doc area deployment. Robbed of our youth, we were. But, I was privileged to serve four years in the SEABEEs. Wonderful group.
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