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Indeed! Thank you vets (and your families) for your service.

Go Vets!
 
The_Lillard_King said:
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served, and to their families. Thank you for protecting us.
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Totally agree with this.

I'll be taking my dad, a Vietnam veteran, to any restaurant of his choice tonight. He selected Long John Silver's as he wants fish and chips along with clam chowder and shrimp.
 
The_Lillard_King said:
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served, and to their families. Thank you for protecting us.
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We should mourn the passing of these posters. Haven't posted for 17 months. Could be in prison.

Kiss_My_Cheeks
Kiss_My_Darius
it's_GO_time
Treaty_of_ Batum
 
e_blazer said:
I'm equally old and I served in the US Air Force. It hasn't been the Army Air Force since 1947.
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.....my father served the Army Air Corps in WWII.....I know it was gone by the time I served in Viet Nam....like I said...our fathers served during that time
 
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Appreciate this thread....we never got thanked much when I was in uniform
 
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e_blazer said:
I'm equally old and I served in the US Air Force. It hasn't been the Army Air Force since 1947.
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Before the Army Air Force was the Army Air Corps. Before that was the CMTC. My father was in that circa late 1920s to 1930. You did 4 summers while in college or high school or something. At the end, the moron trainers screwed him out of an official graduation with some error they made. If you wanted to later join, you entered fast track as 1st Lt. I think (I doubt it would be Capt.) instead of 2nd Lt. So he was pissed off and didn't join till WW2 broke out, when an Air Force general checking in at the airline counter he was working in early 1942 said, "You have a college degree? You need to get down to the recruitment center." This was at the airport which was later torn down to build the Pentagon. (He had earlier worked at the Salt Lake City airport. He was determined to work at airports, even if the military had screwed him over.) So he joined years later than he expected...without telling them of his botched CMTC 4 years...and they still started him as a 1st Lt.! If he'd known that, he wouldn't have been mad and waited a decade. With a decade's more experience, he would have retired a rank or two above full Colonel at which he retired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Military_Training_Camp

The program established that participants could receive a reserve commission as a second lieutenant by completing four successive summer courses
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That's not what he said. I'll believe him over some young writer at Wikipedia.
 
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riverman said:
Appreciate this thread....we never got thanked much when I was in uniform
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Nobody thanked me for staying out of the war and having 9 shitty minimum wage jobs during those years. Nobody thanks you for doing any job. That's called being a grown-up.
 
jlprk said:
Before the Army Air Force was the Army Air Corps. Before that was the CMTC. My father was in that circa late 1920s to 1930. You did 4 summers while in college or high school or something. At the end, the moron trainers screwed him out of an official graduation with some error they made. If you wanted to later join, you entered fast track as 1st Lt. I think (I doubt it would be Capt.) instead of 2nd Lt. So he was pissed off and didn't join till WW2 broke out, when an Air Force general checking in at the airline counter he was working in early 1942 said, "You have a college degree? You need to get down to the recruitment center." This was at the airport which was later torn down to build the Pentagon. (He had earlier worked at the Salt Lake City airport. He was determined to work at airports, even if the military had screwed him over.) So he joined years later than he expected...without telling them of his botched CMTC 4 years...and they still started him as a 1st Lt.! If he'd known that, he wouldn't have been mad and waited a decade. With a decade's more experience, he would have retired a rank or two above full Colonel at which he retired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Military_Training_Camp
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My dad was a Master Sgt when he got out
 
jlprk said:
Nobody thanked me for staying out of the war and having 9 shitty minimum wage jobs during those years. Nobody thanks you for doing any job. That's called being a grown-up.
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Thank you for your service and the extra ketchup with the fries....I remember those...they were crispy! Thank you for hosting the Stampede threads around here for free.....making those 9 minimum jobs looks great again! ....Maybe if you were out and about during daylight hours again, people would thank you more....now you can never claim you've never been thanked again and still claim grown up status! Signed, riverman's inner child
 
riverman said:
My dad was a Master Sgt when he got out
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I'll identify with the blue collar any day. I had to eat at the Officer's Club, though. There was a noticeable difference in behavior from the NCO Club.
 
riverman said:
Thank you for your service and the extra ketchup with the fries....I remember those...they were crispy! Thank you for hosting the Stampede threads around here for free.....making those 9 minimum jobs looks great again! ....Maybe if you were out and about during daylight hours again, people would thank you more....now you can never claim you've never been thanked again and still claim grown up status! Signed, riverman's inner child
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The least you guys could do would be to hold some parades for me 50 years late. And apologize for firing me when I had just turned 16. And 17. I think I didn't get fired on the 3rd job. I was learning.
 
jlprk said:
The least you guys could do would be to hold some parades for me 50 years late. And apologize for firing me when I had just turned 16. And 17. I think I didn't get fired on the 3rd job. I was learning.
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I just walked to the kitchen and back in your honor holding my hand over my heart
 
At the parade, I want my float shaped like a giant hamburger, about 30 feet in diameter. I'll sit on top high and pretty wearing a crown. I want real pickle smell. Hold the horseradish.
 
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