Have you served in this country's armed forces?

[Kaisersozei]

US Army Reserves Medical Services Corps, 1985-1993, with all stateside units: Charleston, SC; Camp Shelby, MS; and Baltimore. My dad was military (Korea & Vietnam x2) and now my son is second year AROTC at college. Guess you can say it runs in the family.

[Av8tor152d]

US ARMY 1996-Present
Iraq 03-04, and 07-08
152DCI (OH-58D Kiowa Warrioir Pilot)

[mcmoyer]

Yessir...see signature!!

[Gone Dave]

88'-98' US Army
62h,63j,44e as my jobs..
Missed the gulf war 'cause it ended as they were checking us out sand colored gear.

[mugen910]

Spent 4 years on active duty in the Marines 98-02. First duty station was Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan. I was a combat admin () I did awards, IT, travel orders, oversaw inspections for the commanding general.

Second duty station was Garden City, NY where I was the statistician for all of the North East recruiting headquarters.

I miss those days since I loved almost every minute of it. Nothing beats the comradeship in the Corps.

[RGD]

United States Army - 1977-80 E5
82D - Topographic Geodetic Surveyor Computer
Fort Belvoir VA and several TDY's


Ron

[freakygar]

Originally Posted by mugen910

Spent 4 years on active duty in the Marines. First duty station was Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan. I was a combat admin () I did awards, IT, travel orders, oversaw inspections for the commanding general.

Second duty station was Garden City, NY where I was the statistician for all of the North East recruiting headquarters.

I miss those days since I loved almost every minute of it. Nothing beats the comradeship in the Corps.

Well, now you have us.

[mugen910]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

Well, now you have us.

That made me smile...you're very correct on this statement, Al..thanks for making me smile.

[Volt]

Consideration,

I'm not sure how accurate your poll needs to be. Taking a poll here is probably going to be skewed in error to having more servered here than the US at large. Do to the troop support here and getting them involvel in CS and that birds of a feather tend to flock together, your going to have higher number that served. At this time it 35 - 31 and I promise you that no way has over 50% of the population served in the Armed Forces (I wish it was so though).


Same thing on most motorcycle forums, you will find that the military presense on those boards are also skewed compared to the US norm.

20 years US Navy - retired.

[RGD]

Originally Posted by Volt

Consideration,

I'm not sure how accurate your poll needs to be. Taking a poll here is probably going to be skewed in error to having more servered here than the US at large. Do to the troop support here and getting them involvel in CS and that birds of a feather tend to flock together, your going to have higher number that served. At this time it 35 - 31 and I promise you that no way has over 50% of the population served in the Armed Forces (I wish it was so though).


Same thing on most motorcycle forums, you will find that the military presense on those boards are also skewed compared to the US norm.

20 years US Navy - retired.

Have to agree - certain groups tend to have a higher concentration. The several truck diesel boards I belong to tend to run higher in those serving/served.

Ron

[Savor the Stick]

[SIZE=3]U.S. Navy, early eighties---spent a lot of years in San Diego fixing Marines teeth.

Honorable Discharge....This has a great deal of meaning to me.

STS[/SIZE]

[tobii3]

uh-oh....

I'm a stereotype??

US Army Airborne, Cigars, Diesel Trucks.......

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by Volt

Consideration,

I'm not sure how accurate your poll needs to be. Taking a poll here is probably going to be skewed in error to having more servered here than the US at large. Do to the troop support here and getting them involvel in CS and that birds of a feather tend to flock together, your going to have higher number that served. At this time it 35 - 31 and I promise you that no way has over 50% of the population served in the Armed Forces (I wish it was so though).


Same thing on most motorcycle forums, you will find that the military presense on those boards are also skewed compared to the US norm.

20 years US Navy - retired.

This poll in no way will reflect 'actual population,' but rather how the percentage of veterans in a group provides a willingness to support troops in our current state of affairs. Needless to say having this near 50/50 split isn't at all surprising given the level of support we provide While I'll have nothing really to counter this data to prove 'the opposite point,' it isn't meant to be THAT complicated of an assignment.

It's useful data, I promise you that

[nozero]

Originally Posted by JE3146

(when, where, what branch)

7/30/1973 - 7/29/1976
545th MP Company 1st Cav Div - Fort Hood, TX
US ARMY

[JohnnieSRT-4]

I'll be in for 11 years on the 15th. I've been stationed at;
Lajes Field, Azores)
Andersen AFB, Guam
Eglin AFB, Fl
Macdill AFB, Fl (Current)

Deployed to;
Ali Al Salam, Kuwait
Baghdad, Iraq
Alexandria, Egypt
Habbaniyah, Iraq
Basrah, Iraq 2x
Al Sayliyah, Qatar

We're heading back out to play in the spring, can't wait.