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Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 2:17:53 AM   
andym


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From: Kings Lynn UK
Status: offline 		Having found out that there is a RN Tiffy on site,i wondered how many ex servicemen/women are also on the site?

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 5:13:58 AM   
sprior


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Status: offline 		Ex-tiffy. RN from 77 - 93. It came off in me 'and chief!

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 5:50:07 AM   
Halsey

 

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 4:02:44 PM   
Jevhaddah


Posts: 626
Joined: 11/24/2005
From: Scotland
Status: offline 		Lots of us RN- Stoker (we know more than the Tiffys, wheres me hammer) 

"It was like that when I got here Chief"
" Oh well, just scrub round it "

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 6:09:54 PM   
FreeBird


Posts: 15
Joined: 8/11/2002
From: Albuquerque, NM
Status: offline 		I think that there are quite a few of us on this forum.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/3/2006 8:09:51 PM   
FlashfyreSP


Posts: 1193
Joined: 7/6/2002
From: Combat Information Center
Status: offline 		As you can see by my avatar, I "did my time in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club". 1983-1989, West Coast.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/4/2006 8:08:30 AM   
Doggie


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Joined: 9/19/2001
From: Under the porch
Status: offline 		There's plenty of us, but we don't know near as much about the U.S. military as European college students.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/5/2006 12:51:48 AM   
andym


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

Lots of us RN- Stoker (we know more than the Tiffys, wheres me hammer) 

"It was like that when I got here Chief"
" Oh well, just scrub round it "

Cheers

Jev



nice to see a bit of lower deck humour there shippers!


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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/5/2006 7:17:02 AM   
chief


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From: Haines City FL, USA
Status: offline 		Guess my Nic gives me away.....USN 1949-1968, yeah me were a "lifer".

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/5/2006 8:19:33 PM   
Jevhaddah


Posts: 626
Joined: 11/24/2005
From: Scotland
Status: offline 		@andym They were good days AND nights 

Once saw a rather obnoxious PO get a team to unbolt a railing while he shouted and cussed at em, only to then lean on said railing and dissapear with it into Gib harbour

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/5/2006 8:29:36 PM   
USSAmerica


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From: Graham, NC, USA
Status: offline 		Well, I'm somewhere in the crowd on the bow of my avatar pic.  '88 - '97 in the USN as an AT.  3 deployments on board USS America, including Desert Storm, and 6 trips like the one in the pic through the Suez Canal. 

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/5/2006 9:06:16 PM   
Terl


Posts: 609
Joined: 6/1/2005
From: Charleston, WV
Status: offline 		Well, no Navy for me, but I am a retired Infantry officer from US Army

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 12:06:40 AM   
tc464

 

Posts: 126
Joined: 2/27/2004
From: Sodom on Potomac
Status: offline 		My first year in the Air Force was spent in a Navy school.       Former bomb disposal type here.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 2:00:16 AM   
reg113


Posts: 368
Joined: 3/21/2002
From: MS, USA
Status: offline 		Also, USN as an AT. '70 - '76. 3 deployments on USS Enterprise.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 2:59:28 AM   
Sarge


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Does the US Army count


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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 3:07:28 AM   
rolfyd


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Joined: 8/26/2006
From: Cambridge,ON
Status: offline 		Wanted to go navy , but colour blind . Ended up in the Canadian combat engineers
mech troop . demolitions bridge building ( ah the great British invention THE BAILEY BRIDGE !! )

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 4:22:23 AM   
Riun T

 

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Status: offline 		Canadian infantry 83-89 North saskatchewan Regiment also qualified DEM-TEC.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/6/2006 4:24:01 AM   
watchtower


Posts: 867
Joined: 8/2/2004
From: Republic of Kilburn. London UK
Status: offline 		LOL -Jevhaddah -----

MY old GUV on minesweepers 41-43 watched a couple of silly buggers drinking beers whilst priming grenades in Alex harbour. Both in a small boat...well you can guess the rest ......lots of small fish for tea. Some very hard letters for the Guv to send

BTW I was not on M/S then!! He was my GOV in my first land job - photo shop. That old boy had done 3 Russian convoys in a lend-lease destroyer...Bravery...that’s bravery! 5 foot dead he is and at 87 he will still knock your teeth out.

.......But only if you take the piss out of the mine sweepers....The lend lease destroyers!!! He will kick any yank in the ball's that had anything to do with them.

I will always remember his account's of blokes going in the artic sea. “Take a long breath and think of everyone you love - and then dive deep to the icy depth"

That was the advice of his CO if the ship sank!!

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/7/2006 12:47:17 AM   
andym


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From: Kings Lynn UK
Status: offline 		I just love the Sea dits that start to flood in.Being a scabbie i never had the joy of a smelly messdeck full of stokers,all shorebased i was.When i was seconded to the Blues&Royals for the Ambulance strike in 82,we were coming back from the galley(cookhouse for the pongoes among us)after a terrible army breakfast.One of our blokes Tom Sneade was ambling across the  Parade Square,beret on the back of his head,fag in mouth and hnds in pockets,when, from nowhere a voice thunderd
"Oi!Get your hands out of your pockets,you filthy little matelot!"We were rooted to the spot,noone in sight at all except us and poor Tom,whose immediate response was to look towards Heaven!!!!!!We wet ourselves!!!!We never did find out who it was.


(p.s. have you seen www.rumration.co.uk  )


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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/7/2006 5:33:32 AM   
jwarrenw13

 

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From: Louisiana, USA
Status: offline 		Like Terl, I didn't work for a living either.  Retired US Army officer, 92.   Infantry and then remf.  In about 7 years I can be a retired teacher unless I decide retirement is too boring.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/7/2006 5:02:45 PM   
carnifex


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Status: offline 		"Airborne sniper from the sky,
bullet through Khaddafy's eye!"

We were practicing, but the Air Force guys took care of it.   And then I became a civilian.  Ahhh, memories.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/7/2006 5:51:41 PM   
Pergite!

 

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Swedish Army Officer...


But I started out in the Navy, so I guess I am ex-Navy.


I actually went though a phase in life once after visiting the HMS Grafton. I was seriously thinking about changing citizenship and enlist in the RN... thank good that I thought things through

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/8/2006 5:50:34 AM   
rhondabrwn


Posts: 2570
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From: Snowflake, Arizona
Status: offline 		US Army... Military Intelligence... can't say more.

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My old Piczo site seems to be gone, so no more Navajo Nation pics :(

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/8/2006 6:58:45 AM   
Bil H


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ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

US Army... Military Intelligence... can't say more.


That is my background too guess that makes us related... in a way...

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/9/2006 6:50:07 PM   
rhondabrwn


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ORIGINAL: Bil H

quote:

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

US Army... Military Intelligence... can't say more.


That is my background too guess that makes us related... in a way...



Yep, it looks like we both have big noses

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/10/2006 9:41:34 PM   
m10bob


Posts: 8622
Joined: 11/3/2002
From: Dismal Seepage Indiana
Status: offline 		Info/Intel analyst(Ranger-Bien Hoa), and Military Police Investigator,(as a reward for the former)..
You can not tell a forum members "credentials" by his name (in the forum), and certainly NOT by his/her contributions to the forum.
Some of the more outspoken critics and historians have never served a day, and often only read books totally inaccurate to true event.
On the other hand, sometimes persons who wore a uniform, (but were never involved in action) are given more credance than those who were.Any book by S.L.A.Marshall is rife with fiction.

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/11/2006 2:49:39 AM   
Zap


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Bil H

quote:

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

US Army... Military Intelligence... can't say more.


That is my background too guess that makes us related... in a way...






Yes, but you both can't speak about it! Not even to each other

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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/11/2006 6:07:11 AM   
Sarge


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Status: offline 		Rhondabrwn,

I should have guessed your a 96er


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RE: Ex Service persons - 9/11/2006 6:10:42 AM   
David Winter

 

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From: Vancouver, BC
Status: offline 		Canadian Navy, 1988-1998. Gulfwar(1st) veterain. Now I build games for a living.. go figure.. LOL

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