MGo Veterans

I have many family members and friends that have served and I would also like to thank all of you as well. You don't get enough credit for what you do.

My Dad:  US Army Air Force, Berlin Airlift

My Step-Dad:  87th Division, US Army, WWII

My Uncle:  1st Ranger Bn (aka Darby's Rangers), US Army, WWII

My Uncle:  25th Division, US Army, WWII (KIA 3/17/45)

My Uncle:  1st Marine Division, US Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, WWII

My Uncle:  US Marine Corps, Chosin Reservoir, Korean War

and my Great x 3 Grandfather:  Co. C, 24th Michigan Infantry, Iron Brigade, Army of the Potomac, Civil War

Salute.

US Navy, 84-90.  

Yesterday, I walked with my son in his schools Veteran's Day parade - we made a loop through the school with all of the students and teachers lining the halls with little flags.  It was pretty cool!  The kid loved it...  

I appreciate the thanks, but have always felt like it was just another job and that no thanks are necessary.  So I always feel a little strange about all of it.  It was the most interesting and fun job I've ever worked, and a lot of times I wish I had been mature enough to realize that back then - I probably would have made a life of it!  All I did was ride around in the air-conditioned comfort of a submarine - no one shooting bullets at me; no camping in a desert tent with camel spiders; no humping a 40-pound backpack through a swamp.  Screw that stuff, give me the comfort of a smooth submarine ride all day long!

Marine Corps. Active duty infantry 0311/rifleman. Stationed at Camp Lejeune. Thanks to all who served and semper fi to my fellow devil dogs.

Thank you to anyone and everyone who has ever had the courage to  defend this country

Thanks for saying something! Air Force - (Active Duty 2007- current)

including not one, but two members of the Continental Army. From Privates to Staff Officers, and one whose date of death was December 7, 1941. I had an uncle who returned from the jungles of the South Pacific long before we knew what PTSS was. As a young child I'd sneak out of bed and listen to my dad's friends, all active duty and many  of them vets of WWII or Korea. I was born in a base hospital and lived near so many bases. I've had the atomic cannon at Ft. Sill for an alarm, as well as the morning flight of B-52s with nukes aboard at Tinker AFB during the height of the Cold War. My thanks to everyone that has put on the uniform.

I drove past a neighbor's house recently and looked at the stickers on a truck belonging to one of his friends - 10th Mountain and Mogadishu. It can be easy to forget that they live unassuming lives and walk among us. 

 

Words can't describe my thanks to what you guys do and have done!

Hopefullly that can speak for the whole board, the whole Michigan family, and the whole country.

Thank You Forever Vets!

Go USA and Go Blue!

Thank you all for your service!

U.S. Navy 1990-2001. F/A-18C pilot on the USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln. I also flew F-16Cs while doing an exchange tour with the USAF. Two deployments to Iraq/Persian Gulf.

U.S. Navy Reserve 2002-Present. Lots of boring staff jobs in the Pentagon and Office of Naval Research sandwiched in between a deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

Army, Vietnam, 66-67. Served in a helicopter recovery unit. Impossible to go a day, let alone a Veteran's Day, without remembering friends who didn't make it home like I did, and who never got to live their lives as I have. It's they who deserve our gratitude. I believe every guy who got off our plane in Oakland kissed the ground when we came back, because we never thought we'd see the day.  The GI BIll made college, and the life I've lived since then, possible. I honor my lost friends, and hate senseless, pride-fueled war, just as they did.   

My dad did 22 years in the army, including a tour of Nam. Where his helicopter was shot down. Luckily they were picked up by the good guys pretty quickly. A great uncle of mine had the honor of having the very first shot of WWII fired at him. He was the commander of the Polish forces defending the Westerplatte. It was a small unit that took point blank fire from a German battleship for a week. Every German that landed went back home in a body bag. They finally surrendered when they ran out of ammunition. My uncle was the only Polish officer that was given honorable terms of surrender by the krauts. He got to keep his sabre during captivity.

14 years and counting, Semper Fi and Go Blue.

Marine corps mid 70's. I was in boot camp when they decided to end sending guys to Nam. Semper Fi to all my Brothers that served.

2 Mgopoints?! Well shit I'll take it I guess....11 Bravo, 25thID, 2002-2006, OIF II in 2004.

1986 - 2014. 28 years that went by way too fast!

Wore a lot of green, black, and tan, but preferred colors remain maize and blue.

You're welcome.  Thank you for appreciating the services and the men/women who serve.

 

USMC, 1990-1998.  Semper Fi.

Thank you veterans and god bless

Thank you for the post. Air Force here. Joined in 2008 and still flyin'.

Both my grandfathers were marines.  One in Korea the other during WWII. 

I've posted this before but when I was 20 I was doing beer bongs at 9 AM on a Saturday in preperation for a football game...my biggest worry was an upcoming orgo exam.

At 20 my grandfather was navigating a plane full of supplies through a monsoon in the South Pacific trying to avoid the Japanese.

Bless all our vets.

It was my honor to serve this great nation. Happy belated 242nd birthday Marines. The real heroes are our loved ones who allowed us to drag them around the world without complaint. So my thanks go to my wife of 33+ years who shared the burden and asked for nothing in return.

Thanks to all of you. Total brajes in my mind.

I didn't serve, but a lot of my family did.

Dad was USMC during Vietnam, was a gunnery sgt in The Walking Dead.

His dad was one of Patton's jeep drivers in Europe, before he lost his stripes for fighting.

My other grandfather was the command sgt at the military hospital treating battle fatigue that was over run by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.  He was SUPER pissed when they got back and found that the Germans had stolen the 1000's of bottles of really good wine the convent had stored in the cellars.

I have no clue how to insert images, so I'll just link to Wikipedia.  Dad's USMC company has the most bad ass unit patch I've ever seen.  Also, the story behind how they got their name is pretty amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion,_9th_Marines

http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-how-the-19-marines-becam…

Air Force January 4,2015 The Harbaugh effect was in full force at al udeid.

Mainly a CH-46 Avionics tech. May the Phrog fly forever.

Michigan '07 Air Force '12 - Current It is an honor to serve. Thanks to all those before and after.