What Warrior members were actual Warriors?

As an 'experienced' (code word for older) Warrior, I served in the U.S. Army in the 1965-67 time-frame, stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX

The military experience gives you structure, determination & the experience in unfamiliar situations to analyze the situation and make decisions.

Gotta respect that.

I was stuck with Afghanistan

How has the military helped? Suck it up and drive on sounds good.

I was in the Navy back in the late 70's. How that helped me with IM? Maybe in having more self-discipline. Can't think of too much else.

Edit: After reading Willie's post I felt a little bad for not giving the question more thought. I'd add to my list that traveling the world gave me a much broader perspective on life. It made me realize we have it pretty good in the USA. It taught me people are people everywhere. Actually, it taught a lot of different skills that aren't directly transferable, but that make the skills we do use more effective.

I served through the 80's in the ARMY as a combat medic and also as a nurse.


2/11 ACR Black Horse
Bad Kissingen Germany

US Navy 1987-1993

Served on the USS San Juan SSN-751 - For those of you who don't know, that's a fast attack nuclear submarine. I was a Nuke electrician.



I learned way more about myself that I have time to post here.

Hey fellas...

USAF 75-80. Electronic warfare/countermeasures.

The military has helped me in both life and IM - never giving up and no
whining. Whatever's going on, deal with it and figure out a way through it
or around it. Right?


Ken

Never been in the services myself but most my family have and many still are!

1st Team late 70s


We get more done before 9am than most people do all day.

While the others would get up between 0400 and 0600, we got up between 0 dark and oh crap.
Or as Monty Python said it in a skit, "we would get up 15 minutes before going to bed".

I would say the ability to jump out of bed and have a few reports written before I get finished with my coffee helps a lot.

Dennis, Navy explains why you have a little goat in your avatar

CTM USN 1981-87
Cryptologic Technician Maintenance


Have a Great Day!
Michael

I was in the Army for 7 years working on helicopters (CH-47s) in South Korea, Germany and in Savannah. Some of the best times of my life

I just want to say thank you to everyone above and to all those who post later for their service.

I remember when I was a private at my first duty station in Germany, my SGT told me to go to the radio room and get a box of squelch for the radios.

Rus, I remember making a brand new butter bar (Second Lieutenant for all of you civilians), go back to the armory and get a bayonet mount for his .45 before he could report to our company.

Took him 30 minutes to figure it out.

Then we sent him back for his canopy lights for his parachute for night drops.

Poor guy was a wreck by the time we got finished with him

Grab some chemlight batteries and a box of grid squares while your at it.

Hi Everyone,

All I will say is thank God you are here and not lost. My cousin who is the same age as I has served in afghanistan for the past 4 yrs he has taken shrapnel and come close to death. I appreciate the people who lay down their lives I unfortunately did not meet requirements I went to enlist at 16 and that was that. I wanted to serve my Dad served etc.I am glad each and every one of you is here and not lost
I am a warrior of a different class but it is all about the heart within.
God bless you guys
-William

20 years 10 months in the Air Force when I often had
to make split second decision that could cost millions
or lives, I think the biggest skill l developed was that
ability to make decisions... without having perfect
information.

I learned that most mistakes won't kill you, and generally
neither will being yelled at.

Traveling to 47 different countries, and learning some
of 5 different languages taught me that people are
people... and more alike than different.

Living through wars, a tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods,
really strange injections, flaming out engines, etc. taught
me that it wasn't yet my time to die, and that few things
were worth fearing :-)

Going where I was told to go, when I was told to, usually
without being asked my opinion, caused me to REALLY value
freedom of choice... which is why I could never work for
anyone else again.

I do have a deep appreciation for ALL warriors and the
sacrifices they make.

A crusty old warrior

Nothing old or crusty about you Willie.

You're still as sharp as a tack and getting better with age!
Thanks for all you contributions!

Have a Great Day!
Michael

PS. It took me three years but I finally have a site for you to review...lol
Is the offer still open?

It's a rusty tack, but still pretty sharp ;-)

Ken, FYI, I purchased a product from Willie about three years ago and the review was
a bonus of the purchase...lol

So... Go Navy! ...at least I didn't go on a drunken binge and forget...

Have a Great Day!
Michael

Marine Corps... nearly 10 years.

Saw 9 different countries, many more than once.

How did it help? Focus, discipline. I'm self-employed now for 16+ years.

Showed me lots of wonderful cultures, people, and amazing sites.

My husband was a pilot in the Air Force during the Viet Nam war; he served two tours of duty. He was spat upon by war protesters when he returned. That bites to this day. He and all of his comrades deserved much better.

I was Civilian Service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard; shop 38 machinist (marine), nuclear repair.

Our service men and women don't get the respect they deserve for what they give, in my opinion. I would like to change that.

Hats off to each of you who served. Thank you.

Canadian Infantry, Supposed to be in Afghanistan right now but was injured in training required two surgeries, still recovering.

Hoping to get into Afghanistan next year or 2012.

Brother and Cousin are also Canadian Infantry, Both in my regiment, another cousin is a supply tech (yes we rag on him).

It hasnt helped me yet as I havent been able to make any money online. Im hoping to hit even $1 a day soon.

Thanks.

Thank you for serving our country I am in awe of all of you.

XVIII Airborne
Served way back in the stone age. Before Willie got to Pope AFB but I know he was one of the guys that dropped my buddies in the woods.

I honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1985; served in Electronic Intelligence. Willie Crawford and Ken Thompson can appreciate this. Aside from what I learned in Electronic Intel, the AF taught me:

• *MAC Military Air Command
• *TAC Tactical Air Command
• *SAC Strategic Air Command

And of course, all US Armed Forces learn our Defense Readiness Condition alert system better known as DEFCON.

• DEFCON 1 = Maximum readiness
• DEFCON 2 = Further increase in force readiness, but less than maximum readiness
• DEFCON 3 = Increase in force readiness above that required for normal readiness
• DEFCON 4 = Increased intelligence watch and strengthened security measures
• DEFCON 5 = Normal readiness

Tying everything together and how it has helped me as an IMer...

I approach every website as a military campaign, meaning that I employ SAC and TAC, which allows me to obtain MAC. MAC being the first page in the SERPS, in the first spot. Once I have MAC, I throttle down to DEFCON 5, unless and until my rankings in the first spot waver.

As long as I'm in the #1 spot, I'm in DEFCON 5 for that Keyword Phrase. If my top spot rankings start to waver due to algo shifts or light competition beefing up their rankings, I'll go to DEFCON 3 and put down the IM invasion attempt.

If I Reverse Engineer my competition for that Keyword Phrase and determine that they are seriously out to knock me off the top spot, I'll quickly escalate to DEFCON 1 and pull out some of the big guns. At that point, I may go C-130 Hellfire and B-2 Bomber attack mode on that persistent IM threat until they acquiesce the top spot.

So to sum it up, the Air Force taught me how to treat each website as a military campaign, how to spy on the competition and how to attack in absolute Stealth mode; they never see me coming until I'm there! In Electronic Intel, our motto is...

We never waiver
We never flinch
To our enemy
We give not an inch
The invisible badgers

*Since the AF reorganized, MAC, TAC and SAC have become two new commands called the Air Mobility Command and the Air Combat Command.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Hey Giles,

Whoa, brought back memories. lol

I was in a SAC command and worked on B-52s, and then a TAC command
on F4C,D,E, and G's - the Wild Weasles - SAM killers.

Speaking of electronic intel, I tried to get into ELINT, but they were always
full-up. Small outfit with very high esprit de corps!

No complaints, though, ECM was very cool stuff.

Ken

I joined the Navy after high school and served from 1976 to 1982.

How it helped me in my IM career? I guess, time management, self-discipline and analyzing situations.

and a follow up,

I'm already working at 5:25am

Only in the military would you be up and working at zero dark thirty.

I did 14 years in the Royal Navy - The only way it helped my IM career was by inspiring me to want to be able to work from home instead of being away all the time - but actually since I got divorced not long after leaving the services - I've traveled even more since leaving than when I was serving - but that's where IM has helped.

I joined in 1987 and got out in 2000.

82nd Airborne Division 3/325 ABCT Ft. Bragg NC / Vicenza Italy 1984-1989

British Army from 1997 to 1987

I was with the REME as an Electrical Engineer, posted to Armoured Infantry in Germany for most of my time although I did a couple of secondments, one in 1979 to Northern Ireland as a foot soldier the other in 84 (also NI) with military intelliegence.

Have a son-inlaw to be with the Army Air Corp (Door Gunner) who has just got back from Afganistan.

Anyone still in I wish them all the best and be safe.

Interesting... most of you have pointed that the benefits of the army upon your lives have been discipline, sense of structure and focus.

I served in the Air Force in the early 1970s. That was during the Vietnam war but I was fortunate enough to serve in Montana and Germany.

I worked as a computer technician. The computer I serviced was an IBM Sage. The thing was already an antique by then having been built in 1958. It was actually twin computers. It was necessary to have two complete computers because they failed so often. The main cause of failure was due to the 58,000 vacuum tubes in each computer!

Each computer used one million watts of power to run all of those tubes and each computer had its own air conditioning plant to keep the tubes cool. Each of those used another one million watts!

For all of that you only got 64 kilobytes of memory. Another whopping 150 kilobytes was available via magnetic drum storage. It also had the old magnetic tape drives like you saw if you ever watched an old episode of "Lost in Space".

The entire complex was in a building one block square in size and the computers and AC took two stories of that space alone. A third story held radar scopes and the command center. The purpose of the whole thing was to watch for Russian missiles coming over the north pole towards the U.S. The building had six foot thick walls with steel plates within and could stand a very near miss by a nuclear missile strike but not a direct hit.

Then I got transferred to Germany and serviced one of the first computers with integrated circuits. What a change! But that's another whole story and I've already rattled on way too long.

I served aboard the USS John F Kennedy (CVA-67) as a "Plank Owner". That is what they call the sailors who were on a ship's first crew.

That was back when the USS JFK was commissioned as an "Attack" aircraft carrier and had the CVA-67 rather than todays designation of CV-67.

Jackie Kennedy was on hand to do the Christining.

Really funny to think that a few of us Plank Owners are now about to retire and this great ship has also retired!

The military has given most of us the guts, gumption and "attitude" to do whatever is necessary to succeed.

I wouldn't want to have to go through some of those times I did, but I thank God that I did, and I "WOULD" do it all over again if necessary.

FREEDOM IS "NOT" FREE!

Served from 1967-1970.

It seems appropriate to bump this thread today and wish all of my brothers and sisters that wore the uniform a Happy Veterans Day!

Hats off to you, Mogadishu circa 1993 was a hell zone