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BMT (RIP)
06-13-2005, 05:12
Damn!!! Time flies when you were having fun. Fifty years ago today I was at MEPPS Jacksonville, Fl. eating my last breakfast as a snot nose kid.
I think I would follow the same path that led me to SF.
BMT
NousDefionsDoc
06-13-2005, 12:05
Happy Anniversery Brother
Tex Tackleberry
06-15-2006, 17:17
I was first in the door at MEPS and the last to leave with an 11x ABN/Opt40 contract. I'll never forget the "duck walk" or the stack of papers I had to fill out. Something tells me this isn't the last I have seen of paper work.:boohoo
CONGRATS ON YOUR ANNIVERSERY! I guess this would be 51 years(been reading old forums).
Happy Anniversery Brother
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You young guys take good team pictures every year or so and write a few notes down on their backs. You'll be glad you did.
Pete
Edited to add Jump School in 74
Warrior-Mentor
06-15-2006, 17:47
Been 18 years since I went to Airborne School...damn you're old!
Congrats!
BMT (RIP)
06-15-2006, 17:50
WM is a newbie, jump school in '64.
BMT
WM is a newbie, jump school in '64.
BMT
That's gonna leave a mark, LOL.
Another newbie here. Jump School in '79.
NousDefionsDoc
06-15-2006, 18:47
July of 80
x SF med
06-15-2006, 18:56
ABN Aug 1980, SFQC Aug 1983 (start) now I feel like a youngster again!
Jack Moroney (RIP)
06-15-2006, 19:05
Jump School 65, SFQC 67- x sf med, you should now feel like a pup!
PeteyMcPete
06-15-2006, 19:07
Congrats on your 50+ years.
x SF med
06-15-2006, 19:13
COL M - thank you Sir! I'll take the pup, and fold. Lets get a few of the real FNGs to post - because each of us went through the "last hard class"
Jack Moroney (RIP)
06-15-2006, 19:16
COL M - thank you Sir! I'll take the pup, and fold. Lets get a few of the real FNGs to post - because each of us went through the "last hard class"
That's true. They didn't give us a chute until jump five, or maybe that was we didn't see the chute until we finally opened our eyes during jump five:D
jump school completed June '72,,,thirty years ago today, i was lost in Uwharrie during Phase I...i don't remember specifcally where i was lost at on this day thirty years ago, but i guarantee you i had, at best, a vague recollection of my whereabouts...
in 1964, i was a snot-nosed kid in West Berlin...
congratulations, BMT...
Happy Anniversary BMT...
Jump School Summer 1969
ObliqueApproach
06-16-2006, 00:19
Jump School '84.
I am not even in the same league!:D
Congrats!
Jump School '84.
I am not even in the same league!:D
Congrats!
LOL.... tooooooo funny. The hell you aren't OA. You just havn't hit FOG status yet. :D Then again.......... Niether have I. ;)
You just havn't hit FOG status yet. :D Then again.......... Niether have I. ;)
Sorry to pee in your cornflakes, but you were in jump school before I was even born. :p
Kyobanim
06-16-2006, 08:53
Jump School 74. Does that make me a fog?
x SF med
06-16-2006, 09:02
Kyo, the answer is..... Yes, FOG status granted. (just make sure you don't misspell it)
Warrior-Mentor
06-16-2006, 10:20
Funny thing is, so many of you have been jumping out of planes since before many on this board were born...myself included.
Then again, I've always liked being the youngest guy. Was one of the youngest in my platoon while I was a platoon leader. At 28, I was the second youngest on my ODA. Now, I'm going to the Pentagon and will be the youngest in my office again. I'm in for a wake up call when I retire and, wait no, I'll be the youngest in my retirment home. :D
I'm in for a wake up call when I retire and, wait no, I'll be the youngest in my retirment home. laugh now...that youngest stuff doesn't last very long...
I'm in for a wake up call when I retire and, wait no, I'll be the youngest in my retirment home. :D
So you'll be the youngest wearing Depends? :D
CONGRATS ON YOUR ANNIVERSERY BMT!!
I was born in 84, this is just a great reminder of how many years of knowlage are here. Thank you all for what you have done and for showing the rest of us the way.
CONGRATS ON YOUR ANNIVERSERY....
airborneFSO
06-16-2006, 19:00
As if you needed any more numbers to make you feel old, I made it out of Jump School in 2000.
Karl.Masters
06-17-2006, 18:00
ABN summer 78, SFQC Jan 83 (start).
BMT, curious, what type of aircraft you were dispatched from in your ABN course?
One of mine was C-123, which causes me to start to wonder about my own fog transition :D
V/r
Karl
BMT (RIP)
06-17-2006, 18:06
C-119
BMT
Karl.Masters
06-17-2006, 18:33
Never got a jump from a "boxcar", thanks & congrats-
V/r
Karl
NousDefionsDoc
06-17-2006, 18:35
C-119
BMT
Seen here taking off....
Karl.Masters
06-17-2006, 18:53
Give the pilot a Sharps Rifle and we can make it a gunship....
Jump School '68, SFTG '69. I get younger after every beer.
I get younger after every beer.
And better looking.:D
BAS = June 1975.
"Q" Course = Start August 1983
NousDefionsDoc
06-19-2006, 11:54
And better looking.:D
Uh, dude?
x SF med
06-19-2006, 12:23
NDD-
I was wondering myself about dennisw's comment
Jack Moroney (RIP)
06-19-2006, 12:43
And better looking.:D
You two dating?:rolleyes:
112thSOLCA
06-19-2006, 12:56
You two dating?
LOL - doesn't that question fall under the "don't ask, don't tell" category?
Back to the original thread topic...
Here is something not many people can say about BAS:
I got my wings in January 1983
My wife graduated jump school in July 1985
Our son graduated in January 2005
Here is something not many people can say about BAS:
I got my wings in January 1983
My wife graduated jump school in July 1985
Our son graduated in January 2005your dog is probably a nasty, flippin' leg...:D
your dog is probably a nasty, flippin' leg...:D
But he can fix that. All the dog needs is a few jumps. Wrape him up in an H harness and some 550 cord and tail gate a 47:D
Pete
I do get younger, better lookin'?...naw.
WOULD I DO IT AGAIN?? You damn right I would, the best men and soldiers the world has ever produced, would I misss that, hell no. Oh, by the way, we aren't biologically different we are MENTALLY different. Not necessarily smarter but tougher.
incommin
06-20-2006, 08:56
Jump school January 1966. C-119's. First jump at Bragg after jump school was from a C-46. I too would do it all over again. No regrets.
Blitzzz (RIP)
03-11-2008, 15:41
I was in the first class of '68, roster #43. One thousand....two thousand.....thrreee thousand...... Blitz
I had orders out of AIT (MP school) to be assigned to the 716th MP BN Siagon. I missed Tet for jump school and at jump school I took the SF test and the rest is history. Blitz
Might as well here C119 also, No c46s though. did Jump C47 in Taiwan. Wish I was in a time loop. I'd do it over and over again. Dave Boltz
Enlisted Airborne Infantry inn "66.
Got selected for SF in inf school.
Did SFTG, 6th 5th and 7th grps. Two tours as A Team puke. 5th grp.
What was the question?
Mosby Raider
03-11-2008, 20:48
Jump School 73, Q Course 73
Returned to 20th and on our annual training deployment to Idaho in 1974 we were supported by a California Air Guard unit flying C-119's. My teams aircraft didn't get off the ground, so we infilled by C-2.5 ton truck. One of the aircrew told me they were flying the 119's to Davis-Monthan from Idaho, and would be getting C-130's. They were pretty excited about the new airplanes they were getting.
GaretTrooper
03-12-2008, 14:56
Drafted May 1967
Took 4 yr enlistment Option for ASA Language School
Flunked out (too much partying)
Was reclassified as 11B and sent to Ft Ord
Volunteered for Airborne and SF
Graduated Airborne 28 Feb 1968 arrived Ft Bragg 29 Feb 1968
Graduated SF Dec 1968
First SF assignment - SFOB B-2 8th SFGA
DeOpresso
03-27-2008, 12:26
Junp School '62, Q course '62. Nam '63 05B4S, Nam '65 05B4S, Flight School '67, Nam '68 "Alleycat 2" Gun Driver, supported FOB 1 and 4. Direct Commission '69, Commanded B/2 7th '79-80, Commanded School Battalion, School of the Americas '83-85. Retired. Security Consultant.
greenberetTFS
06-05-2008, 11:13
Enlisted Airborne Infantry Dec 1954, Jump School April 1955, Q Course Feb 1964, Special Forces Association Nov 1978, 1st Special Forces Regiment Jan 1996...
Proudest day of my life is when I earned my Green Beret....
Teddy
ZonieDiver
06-05-2008, 13:51
Jump School - July, 1970. All five jumps from C-119, like falling out of bed, but they sure rattled and "stuff" fell off! So much for jumping out of a "perfectly good aircraft".
Damn!!! Time flies when you were having fun. Fifty years ago today. BMT
CONGRATS BMT!!
I guess I'm one of the young'ns,, 03/68,, just over 40 years..
andyggoodman
06-05-2008, 15:51
This isnt the comedy forum.
Read more, post less and dont post again until you comply with the PM you received.
Any questions? I didnt think so.
Crip
That's gonna leave a mark, LOL.
Another newbie here. Jump School in '79.
Yes, I'm also another cherry. Jump School in '80.
I remember my first day in the 82d, my SQD LDR put me on tornado watch. Guess they can't do that anymore, its not nice...jd