[Lurch77]

I'll be #7.

Over 8 years active so far. Currently AE2 (aviation is best ) stationed at NAS Atlanta. Previously stationed at NAS Brunswick ME, MCAS Cherry Point, and NAS Pensacola.

[surfgod04]

Originally Posted by CosmicCreeper

Your not in the navy yet but your on a good start.

actually at the prep school they consider us to be in the navy, we are called Midshipmen Candidates, or M/C's and we have the same paygrade as E-2s. We actually get payed more per month than the first class (seniors) at the academy. But next year is when it really starts counting. Im excited, I grew up around the academy and it has been my dream to go there ever since I was little.

[FlyersFan2009]

Originally Posted by surfgod04

actually at the prep school they consider us to be in the navy, we are called Midshipmen Candidates, or M/C's and we have the same paygrade as E-2s. We actually get payed more per month than the first class (seniors) at the academy. But next year is when it really starts counting. Im excited, I grew up around the academy and it has been my dream to go there ever since I was little.

Well good luck to you, hang in there.

If you can make a career out of the Military or government work, by all means do it. By the time many of us get to retirement age, most companies won't have a pension plan and we'll have to hope our 401 K's do well. Plus there's the health care cost issue.

The Navy is a blast, you'll remember the places you go and your shipmates for the rest of your life. I still look back at deployment pictures and wish at time I were still in.

[Meerkat]

Joined in 1976, retired in 2001, duty stations include:
USS Southerland DD743
USS Koelsch FF1049
FLEASWTRACENLANT Mayport, FL
USS Wainwright CG28
USS Sierra AD18
FLEASWTRACENPAC Pearl Harbor, HI
USS Champion MCM4
USS Scout MCM8
USS Patriot MCM7
RSG Ingleside, Texas
Fleet and Battle Group Training and Navy Range Office, Pentagon

I'll take #8 and a Battle E while I'm at it!

[Richmond88yj]

In

80-86
GMG1 - EOD
Rode gators, so dunno if you guys think that still qualifies are real Navy

[FlyersFan2009]

Originally Posted by richmond88yj

In

80-86
GMG1 - EOD
Rode gators, so dunno if you guys think that still qualifies are real Navy

Being EOD qualifies you in my book

You guys are nuts!

[Ritt]

Originally Posted by wvd

USS Sierra AD18

I recognize that ship!! Took their liberty boat back by mistake when I was supposed to be going back to the USS ESSEX in Lisbon, I think, 1962 .

USN 1960 to 1967
USS ESSEX
Riverine school San Diego
Task Force 116, Rung Sat & Bassac Rivers, Vietnam
MR2

I think I'm 9?

[Texas ZJ1]

Your not in the navy yet but your on a good start.
Remember Enlisted people are your friend treat them good they'll treat you good.
And welcome aboard

Too funny!

AOCS,
VT-2
HT-18
HC-3
HC-6
HT-8
USS Bataan LHD-5
HC-8
USSTRATCOM

Some of the ships:
Saturn
Concord
Santa Barbara
Inchon
Iwo Jima
Kearsarge
Wasp
Sirius
Saipan

Hunter

[Meerkat]

Originally Posted by Ritt

I recognize that ship!! Took their liberty boat back by mistake when I was supposed to be going back to the USS ESSEX in Lisbon, I think, 1962 .

USN 1960 to 1967
USS ESSEX
Riverine school San Diego
Task Force 116, Rung Sat & Bassac Rivers, Indo China
MR2

I think I'm 9?

After a particularly entertaining evening of fun in Italy, I returned to my ship, hit the pit, and slept the sleep of the innocent. In the morning, everything was normal, except all the people were different. It turned out to be our sister ship.

[FlyersFan2009]

Originally Posted by wvd

After a particularly entertaining evening of fun in Italy, I returned to my ship, hit the pit, and slept the sleep of the innocent. In the morning, everything was normal, except all the people were different. It turned out to be our sister ship.

Spoken like a true sailor

I'm not as think as you drunk I am.

I think I drank so much between 18-22 while in the Navy it's out of my system. I rarely even drank in College and my wife thinks I'm a bore sometimes. I guess I can blame the Navy for that.

[mcpenguin]

Qualify for hull #10?

1990-92 NSGA Edzell, Scotland
1992-93 NCTS Diego Garcia, BIOT
1993-96 VAQ-135 Black Ravens, Whidbey Island WA
1997-98 NCTAMS Guam
1998-2002 Fort George G Meade, MD
2002-04 Alice Springs, Australia
2004- USS Hurricane PC-3, San Diego, CA

[CosmicCreeper]

Hey I qualify for 2 military clubs,
USAF from 93 - 97
Navy now!

Ok let the beatings begin!

[FlyersFan2009]

Originally Posted by CosmicCreeper

Hey I qualify for 2 military clubs,
USAF from 93 - 97
Navy now!

Ok let the beatings begin!

No flames from me, when I lived in San Antonio after the Navy, I joined the AF Reserves, lot of fun driving those 10K and 25K ramps around.

[Grady]

Guess I'll join too. What number am I?

AM1(AW), made board for E-7
In for the last 10.

Stationed:
VS-22, Jacksonville Fl
Strike Test, Pax River Md
HC-5, Andersen Air Force Base Guam
now at
VAW-112, Pt Mugu Ca.

Presently deployed on the USS Vinson on a world/combat tour.

Ships include:
USS Eisenhower
USS Roosevelt
USS Enterprise
USNS Concord
USNS San Jose
USS Essex
USS Vinson

[CosmicCreeper]

Originally Posted by mcpenguin

Qualify for hull #10?

1990-92 NSGA Edzell, Scotland
1992-93 NCTS Diego Garcia, BIOT
1993-96 VAQ-135 Black Ravens, Whidbey Island WA
1997-98 NCTAMS Guam
1998-2002 Fort George G Meade, MD
2002-04 Alice Springs, Australia
2004- USS Hurricane PC-3, San Diego, CA

Yep your 10 and Grady is 11.
Are you in San Diego Now?

Grady your on the world tour now?
LOL, I would have been to but i'm not an the old AOE anymore.