Military Subie Owners!!! - Page 57

ncoving · 05-09-2010, 02:53 AM

First post...

Branch: USCG
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: Air Station Sacramento
Years Service: 3.5
Past Duty Stations: Astoria, Air sta North Bend, ATTC Elizabeth city NC
Job: Avionics electrical technician, HC130H aircrew
Currently in Sacto station vacation

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ncoving · 05-09-2010, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by senatek214

US COAST GUARD
Active Duty
AET2
Home port: Air Station Miami
Been in 5 years going on 20
Transfering in a month to Cape Cod Mass.

I ame and Avionics Electrial Technician and a Sensor system OPerator for the mighty HU-25 Falcon

As far as cool places: GITMO (boring), Jamaica, Dom Rep, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, Bahamas, St. Croix,probally several more islands in the Caribbean I am forgetting, Ive been to all of these places more than I can count.

fellow tweet

sky3 · 05-09-2010, 06:51 AM

I'll update mine...

USN
Active Duty
Home Port: Little Creek, VA
Been in 3 years next month
No past duty stations, but I am currently on deployment...went to Haiti for the Earthquake, Ghana, Senegal, currently in Spain for the 2nd time then goin to Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Astonia I heard.

Never thought I'd miss my car so much...50some-odd days to go.

Z06Fix · 05-11-2010, 01:25 PM

Just bought my 2010 STI SE

ARMY
Ft Bragg, NC
1 year of service
Airborne

SubieChik · 05-11-2010, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sky3

I'll update mine...

USN
Active Duty
Home Port: Little Creek, VA
Been in 3 years next month
No past duty stations, but I am currently on deployment...went to Haiti for the Earthquake, Ghana, Senegal, currently in Spain for the 2nd time then goin to Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Astonia I heard.

Never thought I'd miss my car so much...50some-odd days to go.

omg the Navy has some pretty freaking awesome TDYs.

parat75 · 05-12-2010, 09:35 AM

Ill go ahead and give a little update....

left Little Rock AFB, Arkansas and currently stationed at Aviano AB, Italy for the next four years. This is a beautiful country with lots to see and do. Not much of a subie following out here, so I decided to purchase a German vehicle, seeing as how us military folks can get them discounted from AAFES car exchange.

This thread has gone really far...never expected it to get this large...keep the posts coming!

parat75 · 05-12-2010, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Z06Fix

Just bought my 2010 STI SE

ARMY
Ft Bragg, NC
1 year of service
Airborne

Brand new STi SE with less than one year service? Sheesh!

army medic · 05-17-2010, 12:51 AM

It's that enlistment money!

petersonmr83 · 05-19-2010, 06:47 AM

Branch: United States Navy
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: Norfolk, VA
Years Service: 8.5
Past Duty Stations: NFAS Charleston, NPTU Charleston, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), instructor NPTU Charleston, USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69)
Job: Nuke EM1

Sitting here... in the Kingdom of Bahrain, I suppose I have a little time to reflect on the different locations that I have been able to see.... Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vina del Mar, Chile, Nazca, Peru, Brisbane, AU, Singapore, Dubai, UAE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and now Manama, Bahrain.

DrumNWReX · 05-19-2010, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by parat75

Brand new STi SE with less than one year service? Sheesh!

I know... I'm an an O-1E with 9 years in and can't afford an STI... my guess is financial counseling for this guy is soon to come

Yozen · 05-19-2010, 09:08 AM

Branch: Navy
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: Norfolk, VA
Years Service: 2
Past Duty Stations: umm... Haven't been in long enough.
Job: IT2

I bought my 09 WRX as an E-3 and I was eating raman for a good 6 months. Not the best financial plan, but I got it under control now. Now its 'Oodles of Noodles'!

2STi · 05-19-2010, 02:58 PM

Branch: USAF
Active/Reserve/Guard: A
Home Station: FE Warren, Cheyenne, Wy.
Years Service: 3.5
Past Duty Stations: Beale, Laughlin, Vandenberg
Job: Missiles
OPSEC: LOL
Car: 08OBP

BoostAWD · 05-21-2010, 09:09 PM

Branch: Army
Active
Home Station:Fort Lewis, WA
Years Service:4 1/2
Past Duty Stations:Ft. Lewis
Job:11B
4 trips: 2 OEF, 2 OIF- Dont ask, because I cant explain.

Cornercarver82 · 05-24-2010, 01:43 AM

1st post.....

Branch: Army
Active Duty
Home Station: Fort Drum, NY
Years Service: 7
Past Duty Stations:None
MOS:91B10H8
3 Trips to Iraq Spiecher,Anaconda(Balad),Q-West

Z_A_D_E · 05-26-2010, 05:03 PM

Branch: USMC
Active/Reserve/Guard: ACTIVE
Home Station: YUMA, AZ
Years Service: 2
Past Duty Stations: Camp Pendleton(CA), Pensacola(FL), Cherry Point(NC), Yuma(AZ)
Job: AV8B Harrier Engine Mechanic
So far, went to 29 Palms for Mojave Viper, Fairbanks(AK) for Red Flag, and gettin on a boat soon

liquid_rubber · 05-29-2010, 01:45 PM

Branch: USAF
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: Elmendorf AFB, AK soon to be Moody AFB, GA
Years Service: 3
Past Duty Stations: none
Job: F-15C/D crew chief. will be switching to the A-10 when i get down to georgia tho
TDY's: San Diego, Savannah GA, Tyndall AFB FL, Eielson AFB AK, Abbotsford Airshow in Abbotsford British Colombia, Khorat Thailand, Oahu HI also was deployed to Ali Al Salem Kuwait.

aaron04 · 05-31-2010, 07:37 PM

Branch: USAF
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: Luke AFB. AZ
Years Service: 4
Past Duty Stations: none
Job: 2a353 F-16 crew chief
TDY's: NAS North Island, currently deployed to Kirkuk RAB

KNS Brakes · 05-31-2010, 11:59 PM

I served in the USAF from 1983-1987.

Do not forget that there are still plenty of people in this country who recognize what you are doing.

A quote I like.

WHAT IS A VET?

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort

of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

WHAT IS A VET?

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort

of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

Headstart101 · 06-01-2010, 12:57 AM

Branch: USN
Active/Reserve/Guard: Active
Home Station: NAS Lemoore Ca
Years Service: 4
Past Duty Stations: Non2
Job: Aviation Structual Mechanic F-18
TDY's: Iwakuni Japan, Okinawa Japan, Tindal Australia, Yechon S. Korea and Saudi Arabia

Draco Performance · 06-01-2010, 10:41 AM

I know it's a day late, but i don't think that thanking our troops should be confined to just one specific day anyway. With that said, thanks for all you do to serve and support our country on both domestic and foreign soil. You are honored and remembered everyday! sorry to mud up your thread, but We just wanted to throw out a big THANK YOU to all of you!

subtle_dropkick · 06-03-2010, 01:06 PM

Branch: Army
Active/Reserve/Guard: Guard, CT
Home Station: Groton, CT
Years Service:1 1.5
Past Duty Stations: Ft. Knox, and Ft. Eustis
MOS: 15T UH60 Blackhawk Mechanic

hoping to deploy in october/november area soon

Renegade3 · 06-04-2010, 09:01 AM

Branch: Army
Active/Reserve/Guard: Retired (IED retired me almost a year and a half ago from injury)
Home Station: Washington, DC
Years Service:10
Past Duty Stations: Ft. Sill, Ft. Benning, Ft. Leonard Wood, Ft. Riley, Ft. Carson
MOS: 31A Military Police Officer

phannarith · 06-04-2010, 09:12 AM

Branch: USN
Active/Reserve/Guard: IRR
Home Station: CIV living in the DC area
Years Service: 4
Past Duty Stations: USS Blue-Ridge Yokosuka, Japan
Rate: IT2 (SW)

By the way, if anyone is interested in a Systems Admin position and has a clearance, hit me up!

subylux · 06-04-2010, 03:30 PM

Army
Infantry
Ft. Hood
E-4

red jester · 06-05-2010, 12:45 AM

Branch: USAF
Active/Reserve/Guard: Guard
Home Station: Nowhere Ohio
Years Service: 2.5
Job: jet engine mechanic
Car: 03 WRX

Bought it a year ago. Loved every min of it. (except putting in a new radiator, struts, and the seat belt squeak)

05-11-2010, 01:25 PM	#1404
Z06Fix Scooby Newbie Member#: 246433 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ft Bragg, NC Vehicle: 2010 Subaru STI SE STU 21	Just bought my 2010 STI SE ARMY Ft Bragg, NC 1 year of service Airborne Last edited by Z06Fix; 05-11-2010 at 01:43 PM.

05-19-2010, 02:58 PM	#1412
2STi Scooby Newbie Member#: 247131 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Cheyenne, Wy Vehicle: 2008 STi OBP	hi Branch: USAF Active/Reserve/Guard: A Home Station: FE Warren, Cheyenne, Wy. Years Service: 3.5 Past Duty Stations: Beale, Laughlin, Vandenberg Job: Missiles OPSEC: LOL Car: 08OBP

06-01-2010, 12:57 AM	#1419
Headstart101 Scooby Newbie Member#: 192664 Join Date: Oct 2008 Chapter/Region: BAIC Location: Cali...valey Vehicle: 2004 gt30r WRX STI WRB	Branch: USN Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: NAS Lemoore Ca Years Service: 4 Past Duty Stations: Non2 Job: Aviation Structual Mechanic F-18 TDY's: Iwakuni Japan, Okinawa Japan, Tindal Australia, Yechon S. Korea and Saudi Arabia Last edited by Headstart101; 06-01-2010 at 05:42 PM.

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05-09-2010, 02:53 AM	#1401
ncoving Scooby Newbie Member#: 246310 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Roseville ca Vehicle: 2009 Impreza lt blue	First post... Branch: USCG Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: Air Station Sacramento Years Service: 3.5 Past Duty Stations: Astoria, Air sta North Bend, ATTC Elizabeth city NC Job: Avionics electrical technician, HC130H aircrew Currently in Sacto station vacation * Registered users of the site do not see these ads.

05-09-2010, 06:51 AM	#1403
sky3 Scooby Specialist Member#: 216829 Join Date: Jul 2009 Chapter/Region: Tri-State Location: Middletown, NY Vehicle: 2006 Forester 2006 Honda CBR600 F4i	I'll update mine... USN Active Duty Home Port: Little Creek, VA Been in 3 years next month No past duty stations, but I am currently on deployment...went to Haiti for the Earthquake, Ghana, Senegal, currently in Spain for the 2nd time then goin to Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Astonia I heard. Never thought I'd miss my car so much...50some-odd days to go.

05-12-2010, 09:35 AM	#1406
parat75 Scooby Specialist Member#: 136712 Join Date: Jan 2007 Chapter/Region: International Location: Pordenone, Italy Vehicle: 1995 Nissan Terrano2 Black	Ill go ahead and give a little update.... left Little Rock AFB, Arkansas and currently stationed at Aviano AB, Italy for the next four years. This is a beautiful country with lots to see and do. Not much of a subie following out here, so I decided to purchase a German vehicle, seeing as how us military folks can get them discounted from AAFES car exchange. This thread has gone really far...never expected it to get this large...keep the posts coming!

05-17-2010, 12:51 AM	#1408
army medic Scooby Specialist Member#: 200236 Join Date: Jan 2009	It's that enlistment money!

05-19-2010, 06:47 AM	#1409
petersonmr83 Scooby Newbie Member#: 209074 Join Date: Apr 2009 Chapter/Region: MAIC Location: Virginia Beach, VA Vehicle: 2009 Impreza WRX World Rally Blue	Branch: United States Navy Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: Norfolk, VA Years Service: 8.5 Past Duty Stations: NFAS Charleston, NPTU Charleston, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), instructor NPTU Charleston, USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69) Job: Nuke EM1 Sitting here... in the Kingdom of Bahrain, I suppose I have a little time to reflect on the different locations that I have been able to see.... Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vina del Mar, Chile, Nazca, Peru, Brisbane, AU, Singapore, Dubai, UAE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and now Manama, Bahrain.

05-19-2010, 09:08 AM	#1411
Yozen Scooby Newbie Member#: 210970 Join Date: May 2009 Chapter/Region: TXIC Location: Norfolk, Va Vehicle: 2009 WRX Sedan Silver	Branch: Navy Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: Norfolk, VA Years Service: 2 Past Duty Stations: umm... Haven't been in long enough. Job: IT2 I bought my 09 WRX as an E-3 and I was eating raman for a good 6 months. Not the best financial plan, but I got it under control now. Now its 'Oodles of Noodles'!

05-21-2010, 09:09 PM	#1413
BoostAWD Scooby Newbie Member#: 99108 Join Date: Oct 2005 Chapter/Region: NWIC Location: Boise, Idaho Vehicle: 2007 Impreza WRX LTD Satin White Pearl	Branch: Army Active Home Station:Fort Lewis, WA Years Service:4 1/2 Past Duty Stations:Ft. Lewis Job:11B 4 trips: 2 OEF, 2 OIF- Dont ask, because I cant explain.

05-24-2010, 01:43 AM	#1414
Cornercarver82 Scooby Newbie Member#: 247545 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ft Drum, Ny Vehicle: 2005 2.5 RS Platinum Silver	1st post..... Branch: Army Active Duty Home Station: Fort Drum, NY Years Service: 7 Past Duty Stations:None MOS:91B10H8 3 Trips to Iraq Spiecher,Anaconda(Balad),Q-West

05-26-2010, 05:03 PM	#1415
Z_A_D_E Scooby Newbie Member#: 243185 Join Date: Apr 2010 Chapter/Region: SWIC Location: AZ Vehicle: 2002 WRX WRB	Branch: USMC Active/Reserve/Guard: ACTIVE Home Station: YUMA, AZ Years Service: 2 Past Duty Stations: Camp Pendleton(CA), Pensacola(FL), Cherry Point(NC), Yuma(AZ) Job: AV8B Harrier Engine Mechanic So far, went to 29 Palms for Mojave Viper, Fairbanks(AK) for Red Flag, and gettin on a boat soon

05-29-2010, 01:45 PM	#1416
liquid_rubber Scooby Newbie Member#: 210524 Join Date: May 2009 Chapter/Region: South East Location: Valdosta, GA Vehicle: 2007 WRX TR Black	Branch: USAF Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: Elmendorf AFB, AK soon to be Moody AFB, GA Years Service: 3 Past Duty Stations: none Job: F-15C/D crew chief. will be switching to the A-10 when i get down to georgia tho TDY's: San Diego, Savannah GA, Tyndall AFB FL, Eielson AFB AK, Abbotsford Airshow in Abbotsford British Colombia, Khorat Thailand, Oahu HI also was deployed to Ali Al Salem Kuwait.

05-31-2010, 07:37 PM	#1417
aaron04 Scooby Specialist Member#: 146569 Join Date: Apr 2007 Chapter/Region: International Location: Yamauchi, Okinawa JP Vehicle: 2006 DRZ400SM 91' Jimny turbo	Branch: USAF Active/Reserve/Guard: Active Home Station: Luke AFB. AZ Years Service: 4 Past Duty Stations: none Job: 2a353 F-16 crew chief TDY's: NAS North Island, currently deployed to Kirkuk RAB

05-31-2010, 11:59 PM	#1418
KNS Brakes NASIOC Vendor Member#: 125739 Join Date: Sep 2006 Chapter/Region: South East Location: Raleigh, NC Vehicle: Who needs brakes? Call: 919-420-0021	I served in the USAF from 1983-1987. Do not forget that there are still plenty of people in this country who recognize what you are doing. A quote I like. WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU." "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU." "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

06-01-2010, 10:41 AM	#1420
Draco Performance NASIOC Vendor Member#: 111202 Join Date: Mar 2006 Chapter/Region: South East Location: NC Subaru Experts! Vehicle: 2004 STi Blue/Gold	I know it's a day late, but i don't think that thanking our troops should be confined to just one specific day anyway. With that said, thanks for all you do to serve and support our country on both domestic and foreign soil. You are honored and remembered everyday! sorry to mud up your thread, but We just wanted to throw out a big THANK YOU to all of you!

06-03-2010, 01:06 PM	#1421
subtle_dropkick Scooby Newbie Member#: 241730 Join Date: Mar 2010 Chapter/Region: NESIC Location: Woodbridge, CT / Newport, RI Vehicle: 2004 WRX STi JBP	Branch: Army Active/Reserve/Guard: Guard, CT Home Station: Groton, CT Years Service:1 1.5 Past Duty Stations: Ft. Knox, and Ft. Eustis MOS: 15T UH60 Blackhawk Mechanic hoping to deploy in october/november area soon

06-04-2010, 09:01 AM	#1422
Renegade3 Scooby Newbie Member#: 248239 Join Date: Jun 2010 Chapter/Region: MAIC Location: Herndon, VA Vehicle: 2011 Forrester Silver Metallic	Branch: Army Active/Reserve/Guard: Retired (IED retired me almost a year and a half ago from injury) Home Station: Washington, DC Years Service:10 Past Duty Stations: Ft. Sill, Ft. Benning, Ft. Leonard Wood, Ft. Riley, Ft. Carson MOS: 31A Military Police Officer

06-04-2010, 09:12 AM	#1423
phannarith Scooby Newbie Member#: 236546 Join Date: Jan 2010 Chapter/Region: MAIC Location: McLean, VA	Branch: USN Active/Reserve/Guard: IRR Home Station: CIV living in the DC area Years Service: 4 Past Duty Stations: USS Blue-Ridge Yokosuka, Japan Rate: IT2 (SW) By the way, if anyone is interested in a Systems Admin position and has a clearance, hit me up!

06-04-2010, 03:30 PM	#1424
subylux Scooby Newbie Member#: 248557 Join Date: Jun 2010	Army Infantry Ft. Hood E-4

06-05-2010, 12:45 AM	#1425
red jester Scooby Newbie Member#: 193233 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Toledo Vehicle: 2003 bugeye wagon	Branch: USAF Active/Reserve/Guard: Guard Home Station: Nowhere Ohio Years Service: 2.5 Job: jet engine mechanic Car: 03 WRX Bought it a year ago. Loved every min of it. (except putting in a new radiator, struts, and the seat belt squeak)