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Actually, the user name is taken from one of the local bodies of water. The only paddling I do, is when my boat finds an uncharted underwater stump, sand bar or oyster bed. [;)]
Was A GySgt with HE Plt, EMC, 1st Maint Bn, 1st FSSG. Stayed stateside.
Had a Heart Attack the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait. They kept me in ICU for well over a Week. No TV or Newspapers. They did not want me to know my Marines had departed the area and I would not be going with them.
But my field was short so the allowed me to re enlist to complet my 20.
Desert Shield/Storm
2nd Assistant Engineering Officer,
United States Merchant Marine Reserve, USNR (Lt.)
S.S. American Kestrel out of Diego Garcia, Ready Reserve Fleet.
I brought you the bombs and bullets by the shipload, boys!
45th INF DIV 1/179 INF HHC DET 2 (Scouts), attached to B Co. 1/179 INF and then to an Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Team based in Camp Bucca, Iraq, Feb 08 to Oct 08. Saw one other guy from OKARNG... sounds like you need to come to Scouts (179 or 279)! Good Luck to everyone.
Note: We were with the 3rd Bde, 9th ID. We retired the colors and unfurled the new ones while I was in command. Today, I understand the unit is some POG training outfit in Louisiana. Sad days for good units.
Desert Shield/Desert Storm 3/187th Infantry HHC (Scouts) 101st Airborne/Air Assault Division. Rakassan! I'll never forget the Air Assault into the Euphrates river valley, 3rd armored on our right and French Artillery to our left rear! You guys over there this time are doing great, keep up the great work.
US Army, 1/17 Air Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, Desert Storm
* Arrived in Saudi in early August, 1990 (chalk 11 of the deployment) and stayed in a hanger at Dharan airbase
* Moved down to our "permanent" location south of Dharan in October - an abandoned airfield near Al Hofuf
* Moved up to Iraqi border near the town of Rafa in late January/early February
* Entered Iraq on February 25 or 26. Ended up just outside Talil airbase on the Euphrates river near the city of Nasiriyah
Comments
OIF: Jan '05 - Jan '06, 94th Engineers (Germany)
OIF: Soon, MTT
Can I get an Afgani Deplyment?
Desert Storm.
Aco 1/22 INFANTRY 4ID, FT. HOOD, TEXAS
OIF - I
FOLLOW ME!!!
11B
OIF ***
Dec 04-Mar 05
Sep 05-Dec 05
July 06
Jan 07-Mar 08
USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44)
PHIBGRU2/4th MEB
Desert Shield & Desert Storm
USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44)
PHIBGRU2/4th MEB
NW River...where are you at? Are you a paddler.?.?
I was a ship driver back then. I'm now a recently retired vet in N.C.
ECC,
I was a ship driver back then. I'm now a recently retired vet in N.C.
Your user name made me wonder if you were a white water paddler...
Had a Heart Attack the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait. They kept me in ICU for well over a Week. No TV or Newspapers. They did not want me to know my Marines had departed the area and I would not be going with them.
But my field was short so the allowed me to re enlist to complet my 20.
Watched again as the headed out for Samalia.
Bravo Team, 2nd Squad, 1st Platoon
Alpha Company, 2/128 INF, 32nd SIB
Wisconsin National Guard
OIF I,03-04
12B/Engineers
ESSAYONS
2nd Assistant Engineering Officer,
United States Merchant Marine Reserve, USNR (Lt.)
S.S. American Kestrel out of Diego Garcia, Ready Reserve Fleet.
I brought you the bombs and bullets by the shipload, boys!
RVN 68, 199th Light Infantry Bde.
RVN 71, 1st Avation Bde. (282nd Assault Helo Co - Black Cats)
23rd Infantry Div. (71st Assault Helo Co - Rattlers)
USRV and MACV (565th Support Det)
NG 80-88 19th Special Forces Gp, A-521[8D]
All units are Army.[:)]
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
HM3/8404 USN
And
CBIRF(Chemical Biological Incident Response Force)
1st Heavy A kill of the war!
USA / DARPA
600th Fallschirmjager BTL[:D]
- 5th MEB, USS Tarawa, HMLA-169
- Sea Angel, Bangladesh
Restore/Continue Hope, Somalia
- USS New Orleans, HMM-268(REIN), with the skids
Noble Eagle, Pueblo
- TXANG, B-141(M)
B Co. 1/120 INF 30th HSB (03/04-12/04)
HSC 505th ENG (10/05-10/06)
CMB/CAB
OIF 06-07
Aug 90-Mar 91
363 CES, 55150
Air Base outside Abu Dahbi,UAE
Great Memory's and experience.
Thanks to all the active/inactive vets that make this country what it is.
Gelnhausen, GE. 1989-91
Desert Shield/Storm/and whatever came after.
11B1P2B "Follow Me"
"Pagan Raiders"
1ST BN, 8TH MAR, 2ND MARDIV
SECOND TOUR: "STA"PLT, 1ST BN, 8TH MAR, 2ND MARDIV
DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM 1990 - 1992
Note: We were with the 3rd Bde, 9th ID. We retired the colors and unfurled the new ones while I was in command. Today, I understand the unit is some POG training outfit in Louisiana. Sad days for good units.
Operation Vigilant Sentinel
385th Signal Company
Camp Doha, Kuwait
31L
HSB 854th engrbn 411 engr bde
M1A1 TANK VEHICLE ARMOR CREWMAN CPL
RELOCATED TO 2ND ARMOR DIVISION..
2008 FT. BLISS, TX
* Arrived in Saudi in early August, 1990 (chalk 11 of the deployment) and stayed in a hanger at Dharan airbase
* Moved down to our "permanent" location south of Dharan in October - an abandoned airfield near Al Hofuf
* Moved up to Iraqi border near the town of Rafa in late January/early February
* Entered Iraq on February 25 or 26. Ended up just outside Talil airbase on the Euphrates river near the city of Nasiriyah
Desert Shield/Storm
360th Trans Co.
Operation Restore Hope
Somalia,
360th Trans Co.