SSgt E-5 USAF

[sunkenmetal]

Originally Posted by JJB

I introduced myself in another thread, but thought I would introduce myself to all my brothers and sisters that serve with me. My name is Joshua and I am Active Duty Air Force. I have been in for 5 years. Basic Training was at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, TX. My Technical School was at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, MD. My first duty station was Hill AFB in Layton, UT. From Hill I deployed to Balad AB, Iraq. My second duty station was at Osan AB, S. Korea. I am currently stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta, GA. I am a welder and machinist for aircraft maintenance. I just purchased my first handgun, the sub compact .40.

Wow another 2A7X1 on here, i was just medically retired from the air force i was aberdeen in 2002, was Sgt Cashen still there when you were at aberdump?

[Raptor1956]

Another former USAF E-5 here.

Lackland -> Chanute -> Seymour Johnson

Work Avionics Instruments on B-52G's and KC-135's from 1977 to 1981 so that would make me one of Lemay's SAC trained killer!

Left the service in 1981 after 4 years. I was not the most 'military rules' kind of guy so before I took the test for Staff I didn't bother with the technical stuff and concentrated on the military rules section -- turns out I did better on that section than the technical. Anyway I had gone from Senior Airman to Sgt to SSGT in less than a month. Wore SGT stripes for just a few weeks. Sewed on SSGT stripes then became a civilian a month later.

I have an older brother the served in the USAF in Viet Nam and another brother that served in Viet Nam in the Corps and was injured ending his tour -- he's OK today.

During my 4 years in the USAF I only got to fire the M-16 one day in basic during qualification. I think it was 100 rounds in total (20 sighters/80 qual). The only other weapon I used was the 38 I qualified with every year. Of course, I did work on nuke loaded bombers on many occasions and I guess that qualifies as the really big stick!


Brian