Heroes to our great nations

[darth jacen]

How many ppl here have relatives or friends or have been in the military any branch or if u r going into it, put

 

person

branch

current,reserve,vet

 

so on till u get tired ill start

 

Garrett Sherwood

navy

current in naval academy preparatory school

[Red]

My Father

Army 1st Cav, Artillery and then Journalist for Stars and Stripes

Vietnam Vet. Sergeant First Class. Purple heart for taking mortar shrapnel

 

My role model

[LegalSmash]

My cousin

US Navy Reserve

Petty officer 3rd

Cook

 

Fraternity Brothers (MANY)

 

about 20 in the U.S. Army as officers various branch areas...

[darth jacen]

i forgot my 2 grand dads both 1 in ww1 one in ww2 both medals both died of cancer near same time kinda odd the alikeness but they r y i love the us arming and other braches

 

im related to a caption of the north and general lee from the south

 

Edit: sry ill just keep ading to this post i keep remembering so yeh im a little tired sry

[Repeat]

Great Uncle, WWII, Marines, Fought in the Pacific. Recipient of two Purple Hearts, and a Silver Star. His unit was seizing an air field and got ambushed by machine gun fire. One of his buddy's legs got fucked up really bad and fell down. He didn't realize he was gone until he was across the runway. He ran back into the lead storm and got his friend. And a bullet in the ass!

 

Sadly, he was killed during one of the last island invasions before the war ended.

 

 

And my other great uncle fought in the Battle of The Bulge. He only spoke of what the things he did once, and killed himself slowly with alcohol after the war.

 

 

 

A bit further back, my great-great-great-grandpa (i think that's how many greats it has been...hmm) fought for the Union against all those asshole rebels! ;-)

[LegalSmash]

Red and I have a friend whos great grand daddy was some sort of confederate officer.

[Red]

My great great Uncle was a Captain in the Army, he was also a Federal Agent that dealt with Native Americans, he killed some of them too, no joke. My White side is Old-School American, but not quite Native (except for the bit of injun blood in us).

 

Found a quick link about him:

http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/crater-lake-news/captain-applegate.htm

[LitKey]

My family has a long history of serving in the military dating back to the Revolutionary War, but I'll just say the more recent ones.

 

Grandfather

Navy, Shore Party

WW2 Vet, also fought in the Pacific. He was at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and being part of shore party was always one of the first men on the beach during the beach assaults. He survived and brought back souvenirs such a a Japanese officer's katana my marine cousin has, and his own helmet which I have. He died in 1999 of complications of a cardiac arrest.

 

Uncle

Navy, Corpsman.

Vietnam veteran and was a corpsman, so although he was a part of the Navy being a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and was a medic. After the war ended, he became a cop and was a border patrol agent for a while where he met my aunt, before becoming a San Diego police department officer with her.

 

Cousin

Marines, Infantry. 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.

Iraq/Afghanistan veteran, just got out this year after joining in 2004. picshurz

 

 

^ "Fallujah brat pack". I think you can guess who he is here.

 

 

This was taken in Afghanistan this year. He's on the left.

 

 

 

 

Two more from Afghanistan.

 

 

 

I'm extremely proud of my family.

[Modgers1]

My Father:

 

LT-USN

VP-40 Patrol Plane Commander

1951-1954

 

My Brother:

 

LT-USN

Patch Military Base

Stuttgart Germany

1998-Present (USNA Class of '02)

 

-Modgers

[SOLANUM]

I know that my grandpa and uncle are Vietnam vets, dont know anything else though.

 

But I do know:

 

Grandpa was put in the brig for three months after he called his Commanding Officer a lier after he was accused of falling asleep on gaurd duty. (He really did fall asleep, stubborn man he is.)

 

My uncle went AWAL, that war messed him up.

 

I'm sure more of my family has served, don't know who though.