Military Service

[TommysElio]

US Navy from 1971 to 1978 aboard USS Hunley AS-31 then Active Reserves from 1978 to 1980

 

[grampi]

Thanks for your service from an Army retiree with 27 years of service

Thank you for your service as well!

 

[Gizmo]

USAF 81-02
Too many schools....
Analog/Digital Voice/Data technician (went through 3 different AFSC conversions)
WAFB (closed), Yakota, Pentagon (homesteaded there to stay close to kids)

 

[Ian442]

USAF 93-99 2A353

U-2 airframe crew chief

Beale AFB CA

 

[Rob Croson]

Wow, I didn't know this thread was here....

US Navy, 1987 - 1993
Boot camp in Orlando, training in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Assigned to USS Omaha, SSN 692 in Pearl Harbor for four years.
Discharged as EM1/SS.

 

[Gizmo]

Wow, I didn't know this thread was here....

US Navy, 1987 - 1993
Boot camp in Orlando, training in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Assigned to USS Omaha, SSN 692 in Pearl Harbor for four years.
Discharged as EM1/SS.

I didn't either. Stumbled on it looking at random threads.

 

[Gizmo]

The first system I worked on had a whopping 64 bytes of ferrite core memory, a tube that we used to heat up our lunches on night shift, and to reprogram it for different modes we'd swap out the black spaghetti box with a gazillion contact pins. Not to say the least I managed to damage one of those pins...in the freaking middle. Took me over a week to peel back all those wires, repin it, and put it all back. Luckily it passed the diagnostics the 1st time round. It was the only module we had for that mode of operation so I was sweating bullets for a week.

 

[Stephen Workman]

USAF 1980-84
Grissom AFB, Bunker Hill, IN

 

[Ty]

Just to put it out there... USAF 1992-2016. Retirement ceremony is 30 October his year at Kirtland AFB. Who's coming?

32 days and counting...

 

[Gizmo]

Just to put it out there... USAF 1992-2016. Retirement ceremony is 30 October his year at Kirtland AFB. Who's coming?

32 days and counting...

Let's just hope it doesn't get rescheduled! I had 11 days left when 9/11 happened. Then suddenly I was extended 3 months at a time for a year. I made the best of it since I had little choice in the matter.