Veterans Day on Friday

• Belly35

  

  Please post a picture of a Veteran an or if you servied post a photo of yourself. Explain who this Veteran is and something about the photo or the individual ... please
  
  To all those who have answered the Call for your country I honor you soldier.
  To those moms and dads, brothers and sisters and relatives, wives and lovers who have some serving in the military I thank you for your strength and courage.
  
  
  1970 Fire Support Base Devins camp just outside Tay Ninh, Belly with is smoking shirt on and his trusted .45 ready for a 3 day stand down. Came off two weeks in the field and ready to eat, sleep, drink, smoke and relax …. Mofo
  
  
  
• martyirish

  

  I never served and don't have a pic to post but I have to say Thank God for great men and woman like them.
  Thank you veterans
• NYFan54

  

  
  
  Nothing really to say...I wanted to go back to bed
• NYFan54

  

  Ohh, and Applebees has a free dinner deal, and I believe Golden Corral will again this year also
• Fab4Runner

  

  My brother is currently in Afghanistan and also served in Iraq and my dad served in Vietnam. Both in the Army.
  
  
• Commander of Awesome

  

  What about the guy in the photograph behind you?
• Fab4Runner

  

  Commander of Awesome;963791 wrote:What about the guy in the photograph behind you?

  Haha I have no idea. I am not even sure who he is.
• se-alum

  

  Tons of Veterans Day deals.
  
  http://www.savingcentswithsense.net/2011/11/veterans-day-freebie-round-up-2011/
• se-alum

  

  I believe Lowes and Home Depot have some sort of discount as well.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  
  
  US Naval Academy '40
  

  ELDO WILLIAM BERGMAN
  
  EIdo, (classmates called him"Bergie", "Swede", or"El",) reported aboard LEXINGTON at Pearl, July of 1940. Two major decisions were made during the summer of '41: He was baptized a Catholic at Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu, and married his academy sweetheart, Miss Agnes "Tomme" Thompson of New Rochelle and Dering Harbor, New York. This precipitated a minor crisis in his naval career, and for a short while, threatened to terminate it!
  
  
  On December 7, 1941, LEX was bound for Midway. El's bride of 3 months sat on the sea wall near Diamond Head and watched with horror the smoke billowing upward from the burning ships in Pearl Harbor. Three weeks later, El received orders to report to commission LAFFEY, but was delayed 3 months by a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia, which reduced him from 210 to 180 pounds. In March, El and his bride were evacuated from Hawaii
  
  
  
  LAFFEY set a record for rapid departure from the United States. Then followed her brief but distinguished service in rescuing 200 survivors from the torpedoed WASP, fighting valiantly in the night Battle of Cape Esperance and again in the first battle of Guadalcanal on Friday, November 13, 1942. In that vicious battle, LAFFEY was sunk. Thus this brave ship, which had the record for speedy commissioning, now set a record for equally speedy decommissioning -- something less than 8 months. After approximately ten hours in the water, El and other survivors were picked up by Marine-manned LCVP's. Then followed four months of treatment in six hospitals from Guadalcanal to Auckland, New Zealand to Santa Cruz, California.
  
  
  
  Bergie next received orders to commission the cruiser BOSTON. During El's 35 months on board, she participated in ten battle campaigns from the Marshalls to Tokyo Bay. Of particular interest in October, 1944, was the 36-hour period in which BOSTON towed the torpedoed HOUSTON to safety from a point 90 miles off Formosa. After 6 months of post-war duty in Japan, BOSTON returned to San Francisco, and El reported to the staff of ComBatCruPac in Long Beach.
  Bergie resigned his commission in November, 1947, and returned to Genoa to manage the family Road Construction business, now in its 76th year. Eldo became the 1st president of Lourdes Parish Credit Union, served on the Ottawa County Board of Health, Advisory Board of St. Charles Hospital, Chamber of Commerce Board, founded the Wrestling Wing of Cardinal Stritch High School, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal from Xavier University, is a 4th degree Knight of Columbus, a member of the Toledo Opera Council and The American Legion. El and Tomme now have fourteen children and twenty-seven grandchildren - perhaps he still qualifies as the man of '40 with the largest family.

  
  
  
• thavoice

  Dont have a picture to post but I would like to give a Vets day shout out to my brother who was a Navy SEAL. He is my hero and inspiration.
  
  He went on three deployments as a Navy SEAL in a 4 year span. The 1st one I know where he went, the second I am about 40% sure I know, and the third one was a complete secret.
  
  Kid wanted to be a SEAL since he was a frosh in HS. Went to college, got his degree in engineering, worked a year in his field and still had the burning desire to become a Team guy.
  
  His pre BUD/s class started with 138 guys, and 19 of those 138 graduated 6.5 months later. About the same amount of guys graduated in a rollback status in his class (if you get injured in training the may allow you to pick up training at the beginning of the phase in an upcoming class).
  
  As I said he did 3 tours in around 4 years and then got married and decided to get out. I imagine if they did most of their training fairly close to his home duty station that he would have continued, but even while state side he was going from state to state, base to base, for different sorts of training and that started to get to him. He would joke around that he stayed in one place longer when he was on deployment than when he was home.
  
  Hooyah Bro!
• thavoice

  Has to be more people who have family members who were vets!
• I Wear Pants

  Nice shirt hippy!
• OneBuckeye

  

  [video=youtube;bq7fjfU-QIM][/video]
• Tiernan

  Happy Vets Day to my son and all the crew on the Carrier USS Harry S Truman
• Curly J

  

  1986-1990. This was taken in Kunsan South Korea in 1987.
  
  
• Sugartitz

  

  Happy Birthday USMC !!! Proudly served from 1987 until 1991. Semper Fidelis !!!
  
  
  
• Fab4Runner

  

  Sugartitz;966584 wrote:Happy Birthday USMC !!! Proudly served from 1987 until 1991. Semper Fidelis !!!
  
  

  
  Love the pic...you look hot!!
• NYFan54

  

  Belly35;963661 wrote:Please post a picture of a Veteran an or if you servied post a photo of yourself. Explain who this Veteran is and something about the photo or the individual ... please
  
  To all those who have answered the Call for your country I honor you soldier.
  To those moms and dads, brothers and sisters and relatives, wives and lovers who have some serving in the military I thank you for your strength and courage.
  
  
  1970 Fire Support Base Devins camp just outside Tay Ninh, Belly with is smoking shirt on and his trusted .45 ready for a 3 day stand down. Came off two weeks in the field and ready to eat, sleep, drink, smoke and relax …. Mofo
  
  
  

  I just realized Belly, we both have 113's in our pictures. Those things are junk!!!!!
• Belly35

  

  NYFan54;966744 wrote:I just realized Belly, we both have 113's in our pictures. Those things are junk!!!!!

  Hey! Mofo :thumbup: Where you in a Mechanized Infantry?
  Junk .... I don't know what your defination of junk is but for me the 113 was great. I was blown off twice, land hard but not hurt. The 25th Div guys drove on top with steering stakes, a gas petal poles ... setting inside driving at mofo was a death trap. Working with differnet units nobody ever rode inside, everyone sat on top enjoying the ride..
• bases_loaded

  

  
  
  My uncle is flying the f-18 on the right while my little brother is the crew chief on the c-130 in this simulated refuel during the MCAS Cherry Point airshow in 2010.
  Uncle is a major and little brother is a lcpl in the Marine Corps
  
  
  Here they are this past spring, both were serving in Afghanistan and bumped into each other at Camp Bastian
• justincredible

  

  
  
  Three veterans in this photo.
  
  My grandpa Melvin (blue shirt) was in the Air Force and served during the Korean Conflict.
  My uncle Mark (on the right) was in the Marines for 20+ years. Retired as a CWO5.
  My uncle Casey (little guy with his eyes closed) served 4 years in the Marines.
• vball10set

  my brother and sis-in-law are retired Navy, and my dad was a Marine in the Korean War...God Bless the USA
• NYFan54

  

  Belly35;966850 wrote:Hey! Mofo :thumbup: Where you in a Mechanized Infantry?
  Junk .... I don't know what your defination of junk is but for me the 113 was great. I was blown off twice, land hard but not hurt. The 25th Div guys drove on top with steering stakes, a gas petal poles ... setting inside driving at mofo was a death trap. Working with differnet units nobody ever rode inside, everyone sat on top enjoying the ride..

  I was just in 1st Armored. Mechanized sucks!! I don't know if it's the 113's being junk, or it was our mechanics being trash. Being inside the hull driving wasn't very pleasant. I was a mortar and we had to haul our 120's around in those junkers
• Sonofanump

  Thank you all, reps given to all MOFOs on this thread.