Next chapter of my life - Military

CRH4LIFE · July 22, 2019 5:10PM

Well just here to update I have taken a break from coins for a little while, I will be leaving here within a month for the military. My goal is travel the country and do my time and serve so paratroopers here I come EDIT: I am sure I will come across some interesting coins along the way 😊

GaCoinGuy · July 22, 2019 5:14PM

Beat of luck to you. Served 8 years with Air Force.

oih82w8 · July 22, 2019 5:17PM

Noble cause, military service. My daughter just happen to be headed to BMTS tomorrow. Her mother served 8 years and the
Air Force kicked me out after 24 years.

golden · July 22, 2019 5:19PM

I will thank you in advance for your service.

Walkerfan · July 22, 2019 5:42PM

I wish you the best of luck and hope that you have a remarkable experience.

Thank you for choosing to serve this great country of ours.

blitzdude · July 22, 2019 5:56PM

Enjoy and thank you for your soon to be service. It's a shame that those running the show never serve and weasel their way out because daddy has $$$$. Hopefully those cowards never send you into harms way. Semper FI! PATRIOT!!!

TwoKopeiki · July 22, 2019 5:58PM

Have fun. It will be the best and worst experience of your life.

Justacommeman · July 22, 2019 6:27PM

Best wishes and thank you for your service. The coins will still be there when you come back. Stay out of harms way

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BillDugan1959 · July 22, 2019 6:45PM

Best of luck, I have a nephew in the USMC (sixth year).

Not an easy life, but the economic prospects around here are mixed at best.

Must agree with the sentiment that the coins will still be there later, when you are not as busy.

SDSportsFan · July 22, 2019 7:07PM

I'm guessing Army Airborne?

A tough, but very rewarding life. I spent 24 years in the Air Force myself, and have a lot of good memories. If I could, I'd do it all again.

Good Luck to you!

Steve

Hemispherical · July 22, 2019 7:20PM

@CRH4LIFE said:
Well just here to update I have taken a break from coins for a little while, I will be leaving here within a month for the military. My goal is travel the country and do my time and serve so paratroopers here I come EDIT: I am sure I will come across some interesting coins along the way 😊

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have picked the job the most do not want but do envy!

Less than 10% of the current generation of young adults do not qualify to join.

Be at the right place, at the right time, and in the right uniform!

AUandAG · July 22, 2019 7:27PM

Did 6 years with the Army....1966-1972.
Scariest time, but best at the same time...would do it over again in a minute.
Best to you and enjoy your time wherever you end up..

bob

JBK · July 22, 2019 7:31PM

And maybe you will pick up some challenge coins along the way!

ChrisH821 · July 22, 2019 7:37PM

Excellent! Stick with it even if you get discouraged.
I spent 5 years in the Army as a 94F, entered in 2003. Best thing I could have done.

amwldcoin · July 22, 2019 7:47PM

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR COUNTRY!

savitale · July 22, 2019 7:48PM

Good luck!

messydesk · July 22, 2019 7:48PM

Great! Thank you for choosing to serve!

PTVETTER · July 22, 2019 7:50PM

did you enlist yet?

Dave99B · July 22, 2019 8:04PM

Thank you for serving your country! Stay safe.

Dave

CRH4LIFE · July 22, 2019 8:06PM

@SDSportsFan said:
I'm guessing Army Airborne?

A tough, but very rewarding life. I spent 24 years in the Air Force myself, and have a lot of good memories. If I could, I'd do it all again.

Good Luck to you!

Steve

Yes, airborne is the ticket for me! Thank you all for the comments! I will be updating every so often once I head out!

CRH4LIFE · July 22, 2019 8:10PM

@PTVETTER said:
did you enlist yet?

After mepps stay (Thursday Night) and physical next morning (Friday morning) I will be locked in. Have taken the asbab and rocked it-( to me at least) I will lock in my mos then. Then I will ship out according to how long it is until that job is shipping. Give or take a week or two

SkyMan · July 22, 2019 8:11PM

Thank you for your service!!!

Best of Luck!!!

coinbuf · July 22, 2019 8:15PM

Best of luck and keep your head down, keep us updated as/when you can and most of all enjoy your time. Airborne is a tough school but the first jump is a real rush and it will be worth the hard work.

sparky64 · July 22, 2019 8:17PM

Thank you so much for serving.
Best wishes.

AUandAG · July 22, 2019 8:31PM

PS: never volunteer for anything in basic or AIT

Jinx86 · July 22, 2019 8:32PM

Congrats! Never too late to join up either.....well almost. Coming up on 15 years for me, hope is to retire as an E7.

If you havent looked into it yet, make sure to take a long thought about becoming an officer or warrant. After a few years of service under your belt it can be a great move with much better pay/retirement. Too late for me to make the switch.

au58 · July 23, 2019 3:50AM

Is airborne a guaranteed path at enlistment or do you have to be selected (i.e., compete for a slot) with your performance at boot camp a primary factory?

ricko · July 23, 2019 4:00AM

That is great.... You will have both good and not so good experiences.... I did four years in the Navy... Still in touch with shipmates after all these years....also have ship reunions... Keep us posted....log in once in a while to check on coins and forum friends....Cheers, RickO

PerryHall · July 23, 2019 4:26AM

Thank you and all who served for your service to America. Be sure to check in once in awhile and let us know how you are doing. Also, be sure to get an absentee ballot next year and vote. Also, some of the larger military bases may have a coin club. When my father worked at Fort Meade, MD in the 1960's they had a very active coin club and we used to attend meetings.

CRH4LIFE · July 23, 2019 4:45AM

@au58 said:
Is airborne a guaranteed path at enlistment or do you have to be selected (i.e., compete for a slot) with your performance at boot camp a primary factory?

Airborne is a option if there aren’t restrictions after basic. You go ahead into jump school I believe.

291fifth · July 23, 2019 5:10AM

Make certain that your boots are an excellent fit. My nephew went through basic and ait just over a year ago and ended up buying a special pair of boots at the PX after finding out the hard way that the regular issue boots were not a good match for his feet.

TwoSides2aCoin · July 23, 2019 6:32AM

Salutations young brother ( or sister). Don't be a hero. Being a good soldier is sufficient. That, in itself, will take you above and beyond "the call of duty".

coinlieutenant · July 23, 2019 6:45AM

Be safe and work hard. A good career if you can eat a fair amount of pain pills. Best when young.

John Marburger
Commander, USN (ret)
www.siliconvalleycoins.com

jwitten · July 23, 2019 6:51AM

Thank you for your service!

Mjwags · July 23, 2019 7:01AM

@CRH4LIFE said:
Well just here to update I have taken a break from coins for a little while, I will be leaving here within a month for the military. My goal is travel the country and do my time and serve so paratroopers here I come EDIT: I am sure I will come across some interesting coins along the way 😊

Thank you for your service, I don' think it's said enough how much gratitude most of us have for those who have , do and will serve.

lkenefic · July 23, 2019 7:29AM

"...it was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." ;-)

Best of luck to you.

MilesWaits · July 23, 2019 7:31AM

Military brat, here. Best life I could’ve had. Didn’t like when my dad told me he was going to retire because I didn’t know what civilians even looked or acted like.
Enjoy yourself!

jabba · July 23, 2019 7:45AM

I takes a rare person to step up and serve our country and constitution. I salute you sir if you are ever in Spokane Wa let me know I will buy you dinner.

ChrisH821 · July 23, 2019 8:39AM

@AUandAG said:
PS: never volunteer for anything in basic or AIT

I found that if you volunteer for stuff you are willing to do, you won't get volun-told to do the less desirable details.

DCW · July 23, 2019 8:45AM

@CRH4LIFE said:

@au58 said:
Is airborne a guaranteed path at enlistment or do you have to be selected (i.e., compete for a slot) with your performance at boot camp a primary factory?

Airborne is a option if there aren’t restrictions after basic. You go ahead into jump school I believe.

Let me give you a piece of good advice- if you want airborne school, get it in your enlistment contract. They will tell you all sorts of things about "volunteering" for it at the end of basic, options to go, blah blah. Then you get there and they tell you the truth- you're going where they tell you to go.
"Paratrooper" is also not a MOS. You can get airborne school and then get sent to straight leg infantry. You'll have to get THAT in your enlistment papers, too.
82nd Airborne in NC and 173rd out of Vicenza are the only paratrooper units now.
They offer all sorts of incentives to join the military, because not many are willing to enlist. Take your time and leave nothing to chance. There is no time to "fix it" downrange.
PM me if you need anything.
Good luck

TwoKopeiki · July 23, 2019 8:51AM

@DCW said:

@CRH4LIFE said:

@au58 said:
Is airborne a guaranteed path at enlistment or do you have to be selected (i.e., compete for a slot) with your performance at boot camp a primary factory?

Airborne is a option if there aren’t restrictions after basic. You go ahead into jump school I believe.

Let me give you a piece of good advice- if you want airborne school, get it in your enlistment contract. They will tell you all sorts of things about "volunteering" for it at the end of basic, options to go, blah blah. Then you get there and they tell you the truth- you're going where they tell you to go.
"Paratrooper" is also not a MOS. You can get airborne school and then get sent to straight leg infantry. You'll have to get THAT in your enlistment papers, too.
82nd Airborne in NC and 173rd out of Vicenza are the only paratrooper units now.
They offer all sorts of incentives to join the military, because not many are willing to enlist. Take your time and leave nothing to chance. There is no time to "fix it" downrange.
PM me if you need anything.
Good luck

Very important advice if you want to go airborne. Make sure it's in your contract and the unit you will be joining is an airborne unit.

AUandAG · July 23, 2019 8:57AM

@ChrisH821 said:

@AUandAG said:
PS: never volunteer for anything in basic or AIT

I found that if you volunteer for stuff you are willing to do, you won't get volun-told to do the less desirable details.

Things may have changed since the 1960's. My Sgt asked if anyone had been in ROTC at the morning muster. Of course my hand went up......he put me on the daily ash and trash...sucked.
Then several weeks later he asked if anyone spoke a foreign language (didn't learn) and again my hand went up.....KP for two straight days..........never volunteered for anything again.

bob

privatecoin · July 23, 2019 9:01AM

Thank you to you and all other veterans on the forum for your service.

ChrisH821 · July 23, 2019 9:12AM

I assume you have some idea of what MOS you want and not going to MEPS without an idea or two. I can vouch for the technical MOS's, if you rocked your asvab GT score you should have no problem getting one. Don't let them sweet-talk you into 11B, not that there's anything wrong with going infantry.

LindeDad · July 23, 2019 9:15AM

Hope you have as good of career as I did. Twenty-Seven years in the Air Force for me.

JimTyler · July 23, 2019 9:15AM

Joined in 74 biggest mistake this stupid little kid made at the time. Without it I would have never gotten my Parole Agent job that pays me a very comfortable pension now until I suck my last breathe.

asheland · July 23, 2019 9:34AM

Thank you in advance for your service!
I wish you the very best.

Winchester1873 · July 23, 2019 12:56PM

Remember-Feet and Knees Together!! I pray you get a better assignment, but send me a message if you come to Fort Hood. I can introduce you to some coin junkies here.

mustangmanbob · July 23, 2019 2:35PM

Thank You.

113 jumps for me. I always managed to reach planet earth, never missed a single time. It is just how fast and what part of planet Earth when you land.

Jumped into Panama, at night, in the rain, with a low cloud cover. Zero light on the ground, zero light above, like jumping into black paint from a can of black paint.

In addition to the jump units already listed, there is Special Forces, and 75th Ranger BN's. I was in the 75th.

Namvet69 · July 23, 2019 3:35PM

Congrats on your decision to serve our country. I carry some powerful, rich, complicated adventures with me every day. I regret nothing and am grateful for my life today. Hope you choose a great MOS that you can advantage into a profession. Peace Roy

PTVETTER · July 23, 2019 4:39PM

@CRH4LIFE said:

@PTVETTER said:
did you enlist yet?

After mepps stay (Thursday Night) and physical next morning (Friday morning) I will be locked in. Have taken the asbab and rocked it-( to me at least) I will lock in my mos then. Then I will ship out according to how long it is until that job is shipping. Give or take a week or two

Keep us posted
Best of luck
spent over 29 years in the uniform and retired from the Army in 2006!

Next chapter of my life - Military

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