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A question for all you veterans out there

Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
First thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going to ask that you think back to your first day home after your discharge. Was it weird not having to get up early and go to PT or whatever your routine had been?? Did you do anything strange??
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    don't think I was sober enough to remember.........
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't think that far back but I took a month off to run with my cousin who had 30 days before he reported for duty. Party time and then got a job and moved to the big city
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,637 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    in 1965 I started back to my old job at Union Carbide 3 days later.
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had trouble going to the can by myself..I was lonesome..

    I decided to build a house with a bathroom with ten toilets..no stalls...two tone gray with a black mop line along the baseboards.[:)]
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As I recall, I got up at 4 AM and went for a 2 mile run before getting ready to start my new job that morning. I did this for a year or so after my discharge.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,723 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's a lot liking asking "On the first day of summer vacation, did you miss school"?
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hell to heaven in four days. mr myopic.
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is a good question and to answer you I don't have a clue as to what I did.
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  • pricklypearpricklypear Member Posts: 362 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The day I got out was a day I remember. The next day, well that was more than forty years ago and doesn't stand out in my memory.
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  • o b juano b juan Member Posts: 1,941 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    57 years ago the 19th may was discharged after being on the
    "USS PATCH" for 8 days crossing the Atlantic
    That day my sis and my Girlfiend picked me up at the NewOrleans airport. I asked her to marry me.

    3 days later I had a case of Crabs.

    Dont ever get on a troop ship from WWll
    they dont fumigate the mattresses
    There were 16 years from thew end of wwll

    My Girfriend not my sister
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once I got used to it, loved PT and looked forward to it. It was the only time I knew what the hell I was doing.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,499 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My final 13 years were all Reserve time, so the day after my retirement was no different than any other day. The only real change was getting my dress uniform cleaned and hung up just so for my "Doesn't he look natural" appearance.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by reload999
    As I recall, I got up at 4 AM and went for a 2 mile run before getting ready to start my new job that morning. I did this for a year or so after my discharge.

    I still do. Well, the first part anyway. [:D]
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still, after 30+ years get up at 5:00 am. The routine is different, but it still is just preparing for the day ahead.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bullshot


    That's a lot liking asking "On the first day of summer vacation, did you miss school"?




    I actually did miss it. Only spent seven years in, but the routine was, well, routine.
    There for a couple of months I felt as out of place as a whore in church.
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,939 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was a little bit surreal to drive off the base.

    I was lucky enough to pick up my bachelors degree during the 10 years I was in.

    Went home, had a U-haul which I packed by myself- then I drove from Pensacola to Ft. Worth (where I had never been before) and started my civilian life as an engineer the following Monday.

    I went from survival instructor to propulsion engineer in about 72 hours. Talk about different worlds!
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got married prior to getting out, as a married E-5 I was treated pretty well and allowed to go home everyday and wait on processing my discharge. Some of the lower ranks had to stay and mop Etc.

    I was allowed to come in and get medical review, paperwork Etc, and go home. So honestly I was "out" almost a month before I was officially discharged.

    Since I still had 6 months of Inactive reserves to complete my duty I wasn't thoroughly separated. When I reached that 6 month date I gave all my uniforms and such away and said goodbye to the Navy, the only four items I kept and still have today, my Watch Cap, My "Pea" coat, my seabag and my DD214.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The first time I got out I had joined a Police Department in Texas City Texas. So, I had to get up early & strap on a gun belt & go back to work doing basically what I had done in the Army as an MP.

    Rejoined, and the second time I got out I joined the Federal Police program, and I started doing the same job I had done on active duty at the same location.

    I just didn't have to wake up & do PT at 6am...[:)]

    Stayed in the job for another 22 years, bought my military time back & retired in 2011 with 36 years of service.

    Now unless I have an appointment, or I am going hunting I sleep in most mornings...[^]

    Trinity +++
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  • CKPW1CKPW1 Member Posts: 43 ✭
    edited November -1
    I?m probably a bit different from most about getting off of active duty. My first AD discharge was in 1987 when I was released from AD Basic and AIT at Ft. Benning with a DD214, back to the Indiana National Guard. Fast forward a lot of years and my Colonel (O-6) ask me if I would go on a deployment to Afghanistan with him. He gives me details of what he knows at the time of his assignment, and I say yes. Note that I said ?ASK? it was not an order. He was assembling a team to go and wanted me on the team. As it turned out, the mission changed due to draw down, and he did not deploy, but his handpicked, 12 member ?COIN? team (by name approved by a Major General) did deploy. As you may have guessed I was a bit older than the average soldier in a combat zone. I turned 53 while in Afghanistan. Later in my deployment, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, and had surgery prior to my return to the US. Thank-You Jesus for Tri-Care and your blessings. Upon my return, we spent the next month or so visiting the DR. every day for cancer treatments. Out processing from a National Guard deployment was probably different than most of you. Medical checkups, gear to turn in, paperwork. OK, so maybe not so much different. My wife and daughter came to the camp and picked me up when we were ?done?. I am sure I didn?t get up early for PT. I didn?t go back to my ?civilian? job for about 30 days or so. I didn?t start drilling for about the same amount of time. I retired officially May 1, 2017 after 31 years? service in the Indiana National Guard as a Master Sergeant. I didn?t do as much as many on this forum, but I think I fulfilled my service obligation as a natural born citizen of the USA.
    BKW
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  • longspur riderlongspur rider Member Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got home late on a Fri night or real early Sat morning. It was a long drive, ma dad & brother drove to get me. I remember getting up fairly early on Sat To go to the dealer to pick my new car. I was home at Christmas on leave & ordered the car so it was waiting for me.
    A good friend of our family was getting married that night so I went to that & the reception for a while The went to look up some friends & party.
    My girlfriend at the time (whom I've been married to for 41 yrs) her brother got married the same night about 300 miles away so I didn't see her until Monday night if I remember right. I also started back to college on that Monday. Didn't get much time off.
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