How many servicemen do we have here?

beatnic

It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.

Knoxca1

Active duty navy, been in for 10 years. Only planned to do 4.

jlmarta

beatnic:

It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.

Are you referring to active duty?

rzaman

Not directly related to the Armed Forces but facilitate their overseas work very closely.

skweekz

Air Force veteran here

beatnic

jlmarta:

beatnic:

It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.

Are you referring to active duty?

Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/

marineatbn03

Marines here.

beatnic

beatnic:

jlmarta:

beatnic:

It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.

Are you referring to active duty?

Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/

Hey, JL, you got any old tatoos of an anchor, or MOM?. That'l work. LOL

beatnic

marineatbn03:

Marines here.

I guessed that one. Others are equally as obvious.

marineatbn03

beatnic:

marineatbn03:

Marines here.

I guessed that one. Others are equally as obvious.

Figured it went without saying.....

jlmarta

beatnic:

beatnic:

jlmarta:

beatnic:

It seems to me that the majority of you good BOTLs are somehow connected to the armed forces. Lots of war lingo and such. Drop a note here so we all know. As to myself, I'm an old peace-nic from the 70's. But I've since learned the fallacy of my ways. I'm grateful to all of you that have served.

Are you referring to active duty?

Not at all. I'll even count those we are memorializing today. LOL/

Hey, JL, you got any old tatoos of an anchor, or MOM?. That'l work. LOL

No, but I've got one on my left forearm that was put there in anticipation of my going into submarine duty. The design closely resembles the submariner emblem and was to be modified into the complete emblem when I was stationed aboard a sub. Only thing is, my discharge came through before my sub billet did so it never got changed. And it doesn't say MOM but it does have my Navy nickname included in it. My, my, the things young studs will do, eh? :-)

Toombes

Navy vet. VFA-125 NAS Lemoore, CA.

Amos Umwhat

Former Tanker, M-60 A1; M-60 A3; M-1; also did a stint as a recruiter; then National Guard as a Tanker again. Also, Army brat, Dad did 30 years, & my son, who left his right hand in Afghanistan, along with losing his right ear-drum, and about 8 broken Vertebrae in his back and neck.

marineatbn03

Well thank you and your family for your sacrifices.

Amos Umwhat

marineatbn03:

Well thank you and your family for your sacrifices.

And to you, sir for what you're doing now! For me it was all fun & games, (and hard work and freezing my ass off etc.), but for some it was a lot more. I guess I should also mention 2 uncles who were at Pearl Harbor, when IT happened, and my wife's Dad, who landed at Normandy on day two, not much fighting, but a lot of dead bodies & debris, decidedly affected him for the rest of his life!

marineatbn03

Good lord, your family has some strong history. I would love to sit down and have a smoke and hear some stories.

beatnic

Pearl Harbor!, Normandy!, a tanker!, submariner! Marine! Anybody jump out of a plane? I'm humbled.

Toombes

Does HALO school count?

beatnic

Toombes:

Does HALO school count?

No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

Toombes

beatnic:

Toombes:

Does HALO school count?

No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
High
Altitude
Low
Opening
Special Forces Jump school.

marineatbn03

Toombes:

beatnic:

Toombes:

Does HALO school count?

No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
High
Altitude
Low
Opening
Special Forces Jump school.

By far one of the best schools

Toombes

marineatbn03:

Toombes:

beatnic:

Toombes:

Does HALO school count?

No dis to you Toombes. You're a great American. LMAO.

You're thinking the wrong kind of HALO, brother...
High
Altitude
Low
Opening
Special Forces Jump school.

By far one of the best schools

And one I never wish to endure again...

beatnic

You jumped out of perfectly good airplanes? That goes against human nature.

marineatbn03

Thats just pure fun. What is not fun is jumping out of a plane at 500 ft and HOPING your chute works. Atleast at 13,000 you have time.

Toombes

Bail out at 13K+ and pull at 1700... Water hurts at 57MPH, but damn it was cool!!

Churchill83

Active duty Air Force here; aircraft mechanic on the KC-135 tanker

Steve2010

24 years as an M1, M1A1, and M1A2 tanker. Desert Storm, OIF3. Still training Soldiers and Marines on a daily basis in Kuwait.

wwhwang

Former SIGINT analyst (35N) for the US Army.

Jim1130

Air force weapons troop f 16. Son is going into the national guard.. Thanks to all who paid the ultimate price for our freedom...

slickric

ex Army here (5 years). now i am in afghanistan with them as a civi contractor

airborneolly

Airborne Infantry right now, but come november its back home to oklahoma. I have about 20 jumps, mostly C-17, but i also have a black hawk, and a sherpa tail gate jump.