What members here at the Paracast have served their country?

[Creepy Green Light]

Hi vet's. I was just curious who on the Paracast has served their country in the military? I myself was in the U.S. Navy from 1990-1995. I served as a Combat Aircrewman on board Lockheed P-3C Orion's - antisubmarine warfare planes. Specifically I was the Inflight Ordnanceman & Inflight Photographer. I did three 6 month deployments. Twice to Sicily and once to Puerto Rico. I've also been to Spain, Iceland, Azores, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Honduras, Cuba, Nova Scotia & maybe some I forget.

The camera's I used inflight was something called an AgiFlite http://www.camerasdownunder.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_hp563.jpg

Then we all had to go to training to learn how to use these new (never heard of until then) digital camera's. The one they had was a Sony Mavica. The entire squadron only had one of these to share. It used a floppy disc (mini 3.5" floppy) and in order to view the pictures you had to eject the disc from the camera and put it into a viewer apparatus which was then attached to a tube driven monitor.

Anyways, when I got out of the Navy I had logged about 2000 hours inside the P-3C. Then as a civilian I learned to fly fix winged aircraft (Cessna 152's/172's).

Anyone else serve?

 

[Mr. Fibuli]

Thanks for your service.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

Thanks for your service.

You are welcome!

 

[Bob Watson]

I did not but my father served in Vietnam. he served with honor. he won a Vietnam service ribbon a army distinguished service ribbon and a purple heart. My father was a hero and came home to face other enemies... the demons of a war and a battle with early onset Alzheimer's.. that was a battle he could not win...
I post this again in his honor to honor those who did not return.
"I can not understand why I lived all my friends died in a flash. I lived and suffered. the ghost of those who died are with me always." the last survivor or the USS Arizona.

 

[Randall]

Sorry. Not me. Once upon a time I considered joining the forces so that I could learn how to fly, but I didn't want to fly so bad that I would be willing to blindly obey orders to kill people. War is propaganda and politics and the military is the politician's tool and a product of the war machine. Regardless of the benefits the military can offer and the good it can do, I wasn't willing to make that trade off.

Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed

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[Creepy Green Light]

I did not but my father served in Vietnam. he served with honor. he won a Vietnam service ribbon a army distinguished service ribbon and a purple heart. My father was a hero and came home to face other enemies... the demons of a war and a battle with early onset Alzheimer's.. that was a battle he could not win...
I post this again in his honor to honor those who did not return.
"I can not understand why I lived all my friends died in a flash. I lived and suffered. the ghost of those who died are with me always." the last survivor or the USS Arizona.

Thanks for sharing & great video. RIP to your dad & all the others.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

Sorry. Not me. Once upon a time I considered joining the forces so that I could learn how to fly, but I didn't want to fly so bad that I would be willing to blindly obey orders to kill people. War is propaganda and politics and the military is the politician's tool and a product of the war machine. Regardless of the benefits the military can offer and the good it can do, I wasn't willing to make that trade off.

Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed

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I agree with some of that. If I was ordered to kill somebody and in my mind I'm thinking "why are we even here? These people have nothing to do with anything." - I wouldn't want to do it.

But on the other hand, I'd do whatever it took in order to actually to protect U.S. lives. Like how Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay. He'd do it again in a heartbeat if it meant saving approx 1M U.S. lives which it undoubtedly did.

Or say in my case; if there were a Soviet Typhoon class submarine lurking off the coast of Florida and actions leading up to that indicated it was going to launch it's nuclear missiles at U.S. cities (or it already did), I would have gladly loaded, armed, & dropped the Mk 46 torpedo's or B57 nuclear depth bomb on it in order to kill it.

 

[Mr. Fibuli]

Thanks for sharing & great video. RIP to your dad & all the others.

That's why I didn't join (among other reasons), but you have to understand that not everyone shares the same perspective. Most people who enlist don't see it that way, but don't have immoral reasons for serving in their country's armed forces.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

That's why I didn't join (among other reasons), but you have to understand that not everyone shares the same perspective. Most people who enlist don't see it that way, but don't have immoral reasons for serving in their country's armed forces.

I do understand - and that's fine. I hold no ill feelings towards anyone that didn't serve. The U.S. would be in worse of a mess than it is now if everybody shared the same feelings though.

 

[Mr. Fibuli]

I do understand - and that's fine. I hold no ill feelings towards anyone that didn't serve. The U.S. would be in worse of a mess than it is now if everybody shared the same feelings though.

Bleh I was trying to reply to Ufology's post

Sorry. Not me. Once upon a time I considered joining the forces so that I could learn how to fly, but I didn't want to fly so bad that I would be willing to blindly obey orders to kill people. War is propaganda and politics and the military is the politician's tool and a product of the war machine. Regardless of the benefits the military can offer and the good it can do, I wasn't willing to make that trade off.

Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed

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[Ron Away]

Hi vet's. I was just curious who on the Paracast has served their country in the military? I myself was in the U.S. Navy from 1990-1995. I served as a Combat Aircrewman on board Lockheed P-3C Orion's - antisubmarine warfare planes. Specifically I was the Inflight Ordnanceman & Inflight Photographer. I did three 6 month deployments. Twice to Sicily and once to Puerto Rico. I've also been to Spain, Iceland, Azores, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Honduras, Cuba, Nova Scotia & maybe some I forget.

The camera's I used inflight was something called an AgiFlite http://www.camerasdownunder.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_hp563.jpg

Then we all had to go to training to learn how to use these new (never heard of until then) digital camera's. The one they had was a Sony Mavica. The entire squadron only had one of these to share. It used a floppy disc (mini 3.5" floppy) and in order to view the pictures you had to eject the disc from the camera and put it into a viewer apparatus which was then attached to a tube driven monitor.

Anyways, when I got out of the Navy I had logged about 2000 hours inside the P-3C. Then as a civilian I learned to fly fix winged aircraft (Cessna 152's/172's).

Anyone else serve?

Any man or woman joining the military has my up most respect.

 

[uforadio]

I served in the army and in the Air Force from 1991-1995. Like Gogs I was mostly in SIGINT. That position enabled me to learn about several UFO incidents that lead me to my own investigations after military career and you can read about those here (by Billy Cox):
Sympathy for the hounds | De Void
and
A splash without ripples | De Void


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[Randall]

I agree with some of that. If I was ordered to kill somebody and in my mind I'm thinking "why are we even here? These people have nothing to do with anything." - I wouldn't want to do it.

But on the other hand, I'd do whatever it took in order to actually to protect U.S. lives. Like how Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay. He'd do it again in a heartbeat if it meant saving approx 1M U.S. lives which it undoubtedly did.

Or say in my case; if there were a Soviet Typhoon class submarine lurking off the coast of Florida and actions leading up to that indicated it was going to launch it's nuclear missiles at U.S. cities (or it already did), I would have gladly loaded, armed, & dropped the Mk 46 torpedo's or B57 nuclear depth bomb on it in order to kill it.

Nuclear depth bomb? That figures; and of course it's always the "other guys" fault.

On the flip side, I'll admit there's a hard reality out there that makes having a strong armed forces advantageous, so it's not that I don't appreciate or respect good people in the military ( I do ). In fact I like the Last Ship ( even though it's all fictional ), but there's another thing that really bothers me. If we're going to be sending good men and women into harm's way, then make it a damned good reason and give them all the support and proper equipment to get the job done, and bring everyone home safe with as little collateral damage as possible, and when we do sustain casualties then our people should get the best care and treatment available. If they can spend billions and billions on the tools of war, it seems to me that they should be able to take a little out of that budget to treat vets better.

 

[truthseeker]

I did talk to NAVY and USMC recruiters at one point before college about possibly becoming a Naval Aviator. I've always had an interest in aviation and would have loved to become a carrier pilot, but after a few years of school my vision became worse and I kind of gave up on the prospect. Nevertheless, I still do greatly enjoy watching documentaries on military aviation.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

<--------- Yip.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

Nuclear depth bomb? That figures; and of course it's always the "other guys" fault.

On the flip side, I'll admit there's a hard reality out there that makes having a strong armed forces advantageous, so it's not that I don't appreciate or respect good people in the military ( I do ). In fact I like the Last Ship ( even though it's all fictional ), but there's another thing that really bothers me. If we're going to be sending good men and women into harm's way, then make it a damned good reason and give them all the support and proper equipment to get the job done, and bring everyone home safe with as little collateral damage as possible, and when we do sustain casualties then our people should get the best care and treatment available. If they can spend billions and billions on the tools of war, it seems to me that they should be able to take a little out of that budget to treat vets better.

It is something called a B57 nuclear depth bomb. It can be dropped from jet, plane, helicopter. It's not very big or what one might think.