| Author | Message | ||
     Bomber |
John Rosberg Trained -- 26 Lima Tac Microwave Spec Served -- 11 bang bang LRRP 71-74 SEAsia thanks to all who are under arms today, standing on the wall, and to those who have so stood as for serving in the Buell ARmed Recon Force, I hereby volunteer to walk back and forth behind a building or berm, out of sight of the enemy -- the noise created by my knees will draw his attention to what MUST be a heavy weaps platoon, clearing the way for our younger and quieter members wo go snatch n grab, shoot n scoot, or whatever the mission might be ;-} | ||
| Brucelee |
Thanks to all from a grateful citizen!  | ||
| Bluelightning |
Karl Jett 1989-1997 US Navy Sub Fleet Served as a submarine Radioman Spent many days under water in areas I can't talk about with mines all around us. | ||
| Signguyxb12 |
semper fi | ||
| Mikej |
Thanks to all who served. When I went down to the recruiter's office they weren't taking anyone in. | ||
| 5liter |
VA-146 1970 - 1972 USS Constellation USS America US Navy from 1968 - 1972  | ||
| Kelly |
Koz, Nightown is still here. It's been nicknamed whitetown because it's nothing but a meat market for the uppity rich kids. | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
Charles Dine United States Marine Corps 1995-Present MOS 7051 Crash Fire & Rescue (Mothers lock their daughters up whenever we go out!) El Toro, Miramar, Futenma Okinawa, Guam, Thailand, Yuma, Az. I guess they're afraid I'll take over, they havn't sent me to the sand box.... YET!  | ||
| Shky_jake |
Redhatbuell Camp arifjan not a bad place. When I was there truckvill was still tents and zone 1 px was a tent. Maybe coming back there next year. My unit goes back on the deploy list in April of '05. | ||
| Redhatbuell |
Jake, Arifjan is even better now. When we go out to Buehring, Victory or some of the other Camps and see the conditions they are living in...Whew! There, but for the grace of God, go I! Still a bit of culture shock having to learn to speak Army. That and standing in line with 2000 of your closest friends at the Zone 2 DFAC. Ah well, 146 and a wake up.  | ||
| Mike |
1982-1986 USMC Avionics Tech/CH46/CH53 1987-1991 USAF Ground Radio Tech (Incl Desert Storm) 1991-1993 USAF Bio-Environmental Engineer 1994-1999 USAF Comm Engineer RETIRED!! | ||
| Shky_jake |
Redhatbuell Try the zone 1 dfac it is ok some times. All depends on what you want to eat. Army talk takes a while to learn if you did not get pounded with it while in boot. 146 and a wake up. Not bad it will be over soon. Hang in there. Jake | ||
| Bob_thompson |
Served in Army as company clerk for a bunch of students at the Army Intelligence Center School then at Ft. Holabird Md. from 1960-1963. Sometimes I think I'm the oldest Bueller around. | ||
| Koz5150 |
Kelly, Well it's good to know some things haven't changed. I used to know a girl who lived on Hurlburt field and we would go to Nighttown since Active duty was let in for free. Then it was free rails from 2200-0000. We would tie on a good buzz then drink pitchers the rest of the night. The next day we would park by the Hotels and sleep on the beach. When we didn't have a place to stay, we would just use the outdoor showers on the beach and live out of my 84 Cutlass. What a great time. I loved Destin. | ||
| Johnk3 |
thanks to all serving/served semper fi 92-97 6th Marines | ||
| Redhatbuell |
Jake, We switched to the Zone 1 DFAC when we found out the surge is due to hit soon. Apparently Zone 1 is for us "permanent party" base personnel types. If you get over here to the sandbox before the middle of Feb, look me up. I'm working out of the PMO's office. Pete | ||
| Mbsween |
Holy Sheeit! Usually I'm in a group of one, you know, veteran and I ride a Buell. Good to see so many in this group. Anybody ever get to ride as part of their duty? I used to see guys from the 6th CAV with bikes in the motor pool at FT Hood (circa 83 - 85). Looked like KLR 650s or something of that type. Never did catch a ride tho. Of course the side of a UH1H was a hell of a ride. I'd love to do that again | ||
| Bartimus |
1972-1982 USMC A-gunner, Hawk missle tech Semper Fi!!! | ||
| Pangalactic |
'95-'98 Active Army, '98-'01 Reserves 67R - AH64 Apache Helicopter Crew Chief 18th Airborne, 229th AVN Regt. (Message edited by pangalactic on September 15, 2004) | ||
| Henrik |
I did some motorcycle duty in the MP - not much fun though. We were issued old (introduced in 1950), detuned 350cc BSA thumpers. We'd basically gotten all the left-overs from all the other units, and the bikes were beat to within inches of their lives. Each of us were issued 2 bikes so we at least had a shot of having one of them running. Besides the MC gear was pathetic, and a lot of our riding was in the winter ... in Denmark. Oh well - it was an experience  Henrik | ||
| Socoken |
A sincere thank you to everyone here. 1999-present USMC-R active duty tours in Kuwait and Iraq division military police (not PMO) | ||
| Socoken |
I got to ride a Suzuki DR650 or something in Iraq. we had a couple for route recon and what-not. Destin, FL is a cool town. rode through mostly, but ate at the Hooters there. | ||
| Polekat |
I rode with the 1st Cav a lot while in Nam (51 insertions). You'll notice feet just above the skids. We rode in the open door ways. No seat belts, no speed limits and the faster the better.  | ||
| Signguyxb12 |
i mentioned this before , what's with the fly boys and buells   we all know why usmc 88-95 A/C , ch-46e 95- present, National guard | ||
| Tom_b |
I served in the USN from 1981 to 86 in the Sea Bees. All I can say is thank god for the Marine Corp. those guys caught hell in Beruit in 1983, lost some good friends there. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
2001 till presant US army finance corps spc 15th fin bn 1st cav div ft hood tx currently in bahgdad iraq oh and to the guys that were talking ablut arifjan kuwait i was there last year when all the hard building started opening up like the good gym and swimming pool and stuff to that nature that was a real nice place.  | ||
| Bartimus |
wow Polekat, that pic brings back memories... | ||
| Polekat |
Bartimus, Sorry the quality isn't real good. The pics are old and yellowing. I hope they bring some good memories, though I know there are many bad memories that went with the insertions. Did you spend some time RIDING THE RAILS with the Cav? I've a few more pics, but I haven't decided if I should to post them. I don't want to bore any one or use up a lot of hd space on Blake's site. | ||
| Bomber |
Pole -- I had no idea that Hueys even HAD doors until I saw a MCReserve bird about 10 years ago -- could figure out what was different for a bit! standing on the skids is the best way to see the country -- with CCR on the intercom, and a cold LZ -- | ||
| Polekat |
Bomber, Up in the highlands as the temp went from hot to much hotter, which made for thinner air and less rotor lift, along with the thinner air due to altitude The pilots had to constantly adjust what they carried. The doors, as you know were the first to go, but some came back on during the monsoons. Riding the rails in the rain hurt! One time we went out on a 15 day excursion and had the crew and a number of 11b with rucks, armament and a 3 day log per bird. When they picked us up they had to reduce the load by 2. The last bird out tried to lift the last of us out (the same number on board as when they dropped us off) and managed to get about 200 feet above the trees before getting squirrelly. For a time we all thought we were going to crash. The door gunner said at least two us had to get out and he started to push on a couple of us. The door gunner was shown the error of his ways and the pilot eventually landed where we had started. It was decided two would stay and be picked up shortly. Shortly lasted for over 4 hours. The hueys had to refuel. A cobra section stayed on station until they needed to refuel. That left two to wait it out. It was a most memorable period. For those who might want an idea of what it looks like to ride with the Cav. Like all my pics , it is old. Those boots have no shine. Low crawling does that to them. They saw lots of miles on the ground. I never met an officer who didn't complain about them.  |
