When i was in the Army (ets in 2001) we did PT at least 4 times a week. This played a big part why i got out. My knees could not take running 3-5 miles a day 4 times aweek every week.

 

Retired USAF 21 years

Lackland AFB, for basic 1981
Chanute AB, Illinois
Andersen AFB, Guam
Langley AFB, Virginia. (10 Years)
Ramtein AB, Germany
Onizuka AS, California
Nellis AFB, Nevada (retired)
Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada (contractor)

Major deployments:

Saudi X 2 (8 months and 4 months)
Jordan

 

US Army

Basic: Ft. McClellan, AL 1979
AIT: Ft. Rucker, AL 1979
Hunter Army Airfield 1980-1981
Katterbach, FRG 1981-1982
Hunter Army Airfield, 1982- 1985,
ETS'd March 22, 1985
IRR: March 1985 - 1992
Got out as an E-6, 67N30

 

Hmmm, 5th sig had PT every day of the week. Twice a day if you were overweight. 20-30 miles a week in formation is rough on the joints. My knees have never been the same as they were pre-Army.

 

Every thursday we would show up in full battle rattle at 1st formation and then go off training. There always seemed to be a road march involved.

 

May 73 enlisted from Canal Zone, Rep of Panama
May - Jul 73 Basic-Ft jackson, SC (Drag-***-Hill)
Jul 73-Mar 74 AIT-Ft Monmouth, NJ MOS: 26L2T
Mar 74- Jun 76 various locations around South Korea mostly with the 304th and 307th Sig Bns
Jun 76- Oct 78 D-Co 67th Sig Bn, Ft Gordon, GA
Oct 78- Aug 79 D-Co 304th Sig Bn Cp Carroll, S. Korea
Aug 79- Dec 82 Sig School Instructor in COBET MOD 4, Ft Gordon, GA
Dec 82- Dec 85 USAE Brunnsumm, NL worked in the S-3 CSRG, AFCENT-NATO
Dec 85- Sep 88 NET Communications Section, CECOM, Ft Monmouth, NJ
Sep 88- Jun 90 Signal School instructor (29M course), Ft Gordon, GA
ETS'd June 90.
May 91 to present I work for CECOM as a switching systens LAR (Logistics Assistance Representative) the government tech rep on the specific weapon systems.
Been way to many TDYs to list but have served in OEF Bagram AB, Afghan 03 and recently OIF Taqaddum AB, Irag 04.

God Bless the USA

 

I had a theory that if you wanted to serve more than 20 years you didn't train enough for the job or you were masochistic and enjoyed hurting yourself. When my unit went to unit PT and they considered paying basketball/wallyball/any ball PT I figured it was way past time to get out.

 

86 Ft. Sill, OK Basic/AIT (13B Cannon Crewmeber)
86-88 Ft. Sill, OK 2/2 FA (Big Deuce)
88-89 Presidio of Monterey, CA (German)
90 Goodfellow, AFB (98G Training Electronic Warfare Voice Interceptor)
90-92 Nurnberg, Germany (2 ACR Dragoons) (4 months spent in Munich learning Russian)
92-93 Ft. Huachuca, AZ (97B Counterintelligence Training)
93-95 Ft. Hood, TX (1st Cav)
95-96 Presidio of Monterey, CA (Korean)
96-98 Schofield Barracks, HI (NCO Academy Instructor)
98-01 Ft. Hood, Tx (1st Cav--again dammit!)
01-03 Ft. Huachuca, AZ (Drill Instructor)
03 Defense Language Institute East, DC (Italian)
03-pres. Naples, Italy (650th MI Group)

Been to Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Bosnia (SFOR), and currently "vacationing" in Afghanistan (ISAF). Done more TDYs than I can count and been pretty much all over the world. Love my job, and my country!

 

Lackland TX
Lowry CO
McClellan CA
Eielson AK (TDY)
Yokota Japan (TDY)

 

"Join up and see the world" (or at least the east coast)

Paris Island, SC
Camp Geiger, NC
Fort Devens, Mass
Pensacola, Fla
Fort Meade, MD

/grew up in NC, had arleady been everywhere they sent me

 

Boot camp and AIT at Ft. Leonard Wood.

33 months in Germany attached to the 37th trans group. Drove 50k - 60k miles per year all over country hauling goods.

 

Ft. Leonard Wood -basic and AIT 1969
Ft Hood, Texas 1969
Long Binh, Vietnam 1970

NEWLY

 

what unit? i was in 2/5 cav in 97 to 01

 

1986: 3/13th- Ft. Jackson
1986: D. Co. 366th Sig. Ft. Gordon, GA
1987: B. Co. 8th Sig BN, Bad Krueznach, FRG
1990: 521st Sig BN, Ft. Huachuca, AZ
1992: A. Co. 13th Sig BN, Ft. Hood, TX (NTC- what a party!)
1995: B. Co. 122nd Sig BN, Camp Casey, Korea
1996: A. Co. 13th Sig BN, Ft. Hood, TX (NTC: I loved it!)
1997 - 1998- B. Co. 142nd Sig BN (ETS'd)

 

U.S. Marine Corps 1987-1991

Boot camp: MCRD San Diego
Infantry school: Camp Pendleton

Bravo Company, 1st Bn, 7th Marine Regiment: Pendleton(San Matao) from '87-'89, unit then re-assigned to 29 Palms MCAGCC

Japan, Okinawa, Phillipines, Wake Island, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
spent time on USS Tarawa and USS Belleau Wood

August '00-Mar '01: Deployed to Saudi/Kuwait for Desert Shield/Storm. Attached to Task Force Ripper.