So You Served!!

[SHEEPDOG]

4 Years US Navy 1961 to 1965 Snipe
7 Years Army National Guard
12 Years Air National Guard
Just retired from Air Wyoming National Guard 6 years ago, now 66

[SCOTTGLOVER]

Served our fine country between 1987 to 1992 in the Air Force. Worked on F-15s, It's a Great Fighter platform.
Stationed at Eglin, FL. Keflavik, Iceland and Bitburg, Germany. I've seen Spain and England too.

[69941]

I served in the Air Force as a Law Enforcement Specialist and Recruiter. Assignments included: Lackland AFB, Gila Bend AFAF, MacDill AFB, Luke AFB, Sondestrom AB Greenland, Tyndall AFB, Portland, Oregon, and Mather AFB.

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Roger
1st BMW bike: 1991 K75
2nd BMW bike: 1998 R1100RT
3rd BMW bike and current: 2007 R1200GSA

[WDaigle]

U.S. Army active duty 1964-1967. Also 20 years law enforcement 1985-2005(retired).

[TANDEMGEEK]

USAF: 1978 - 1986... six active + two reserve before moving into Aerospace & Defense where I've been for 25 years.... and still lovin' it.

[jdubick]

I have enjoyed reading all the posts. Glad to know we have so many patriots in the MOA family. I served 8 years in the Air Force from 1958 to 1966 as an electronics tech. Stationed in Virginia, Korea, Germany and at Norad HQ in Colorado Springs. Learned to fly in the AF Aero clubs and have been a corporate pilot since and still to this day at age 68. See you at the rally in TN.
Jim Dubick
Progress Rail Services Corp.
Albertville Alabama
K1200LTE
F650GS
R100/7
KLX250

[Retarded Jarhead]

Retired a MSGT from the aviation community. Crew chief in CH-53 A/D/Es, CH-46D,Es and UH1Ns.

My thanks to all who served!

Remeber those that still are!

[JoeMc]

U.S. Army; Republic of Vietnam; 18 months, 12 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes. Early out for combat service > 12 months.

[AKBEEMER]

Gee Joe, you weren't counting, were you? Thanks for your service in tough one.

[AKBEEMER]

You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the La Drang Valley,
11-14-1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so
intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac
helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know
you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never
see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to
see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no Medi-Vac markings on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey
down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were told not to come.He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the waiting doctors and nurses.
And he kept coming back....... 13 more times..... and took over 30 of you and your buddies out,
who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday, in Boise, Idaho, at the age of 80.

[Fritzc]

I wasn't there but you might have saved a friend of mine.

[professor]

That war brought out the worst in some of us, but it brought out the best in some of us too. Godspeed, Ed. I'm guessing that there is a special place of honor for you, although you probably won't want it.

[147985]

I'm retired from the US air force after 20 years of service.
Retired in 2000.
I was a crew chief on F-4's from 1980-83
F-5's from 84-85 F-15's from 85-86
F-111's from 86-96 F-15's from 96-00
I have been stationed in florida twice
England twice and New Mexico once

I ride a 2001 F650GS

[JASONDEFILIPPIS]

Hi Folks, please excuse my reply to this post. I'm new on bmw moa and don't see how i am able to start a new post with some questions I have for you all. Any help?? thanks. And thanks for serving. Peace, Jason

[JASONDEFILIPPIS]

oh, i figured it out. Thanks. Jason