is this common ??????

[northen diver]

To be fair to those who may not be able to answer questions like that, I don't remember a single date, number, or anything from my military days. I hear people talking about how they never forget their boot camp platoon number, class date for this, roster number for that, or the date of this or that. Maybe I just suck at remembering things, I don't know, I also couldn't tell you my phone number off the top of my head. If someone said the numbers I'm sure I'd remember them, but I couldn't just pull them off the top of my head.


So again, I wouldn't use something like that as the only evidence to call someone out.

Keep in mind that I am not talking about basic training or an AIT school. I am talking about Q school, Ranger School, BUDS, HALO school, Scout sniper schools, combat diver school etc. Schools that are intense and that have high DOR rates. These are the schools the people dont typically forget when they went.

Gary D. is a mod on Military.com also and he had been in these discussion on Military.com also.

So I was just curious if he remembers his class date.

 

[Katamuki]

Just a few questions;
(1) When did the Navy have a draft?

(2) How different is that buddy check from others?

(3) Where did they train at?

(4) Have you seen any non-photo shop pics?

Maybe more later.

Gary D.

Gary

As for the draft, thats what I thought I heard him say! I was one year old in 1968 and truthfully never paid any attention to who had what draft and when. I have been in his house and seen his Navy dive memorabilia including pictures of him in the water when the plane went off the bridge over the Potomac during the 80s and he was doing the SAR work. I also know he ran the Navy Hyperbaric facility in the early 80s when the Navy still had one in Wash. D.C. at that time. His PADI number is 8624 (the entire number, not shortened) if you care to look him up. A great guy!

The Amphib Recon guy has a 10 inch tattoo across his back with the Amphib Recon logo and wears the occassional tattered Combatant Dive school shirt. Many other tattoos across his arms and one on his heart too but not as distinctive as the crossed knife and trident. Even a few under his left arm on his chest but they are just some numbers and letters. He might be faking it but sure has gone to a lot of trouble... not too mention that he is stationed with me over here in Okinawa and not on some dive boat off Florida.

The SEAL is stationed here overseas with me in Okinawa but I dont know his unit and never asked. His buddy check which was different to me was more of a complete buddy "re-check" of his equipment while it was on the deck prior to him donning the jacket. It was more than I am used to.

The army type is from here as well.

I never have and probably wont ask much beyond that. All very good guys and great to dive with. Beyond that, I dont really care. I suppose if someone really cares I can ask a direct question to one of them? :mooner:

Hmmm, a non-photo shopped picture... I think so because thats what I was told

 

[Nick_W]

Keep in mind that I am not talking about basic training or an AIT school. I am talking about Q school, Ranger School, BUDS, HALO school, Scout sniper schools, combat diver school etc. Schools that are intense and that have high DOR rates. These are the schools the people dont typically forget when they went.

Gary D. is a mod on Military.com also and he had been in these discussion on Military.com also.

So I was just curious if he remembers his class date.

I've been through several very intense schools with very high DOR rates and I couldn't tell you very much at all about them. Well, except they were kind of painful.

Like I said, I suck at remembering details, which is why I write down everything I need to remember. Some of it I even have on cards I've laminated and carry with me. I probably shouldn't admit this, but my birthday is on one of those cards. For some reason I always want to add a couple of years to my age.

All I'm saying is I hate it when I see people ask a question like that and, when the person stumbles on their answer, the asker jumps on them calling them out as a liar. I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt until they pull a "door gunner on a Cobra" moment.

 

[digndeep400]

lol, seems like we all have had to deal with this stuff

 

[Katamuki]

Gary,

BTW, I am on your military.com mailing list too...!

Just for the record, I thought I would show some not-photoshopped family pictures too...

Sai Pan Evac

And, my son, doing the door gunner thing in a Cobra at MCB Futenma...

 

[The Kraken]

Geeeeezzzzz . . . !!!

I can still tell you the grid co-ords that I reported the first time I was shot down in the Sunny Southeastern Asian War Games in 1969 !!!

I'll tell ya this, the started with Yankee Tango . . .

the K-an't Keep It In the Sky

 

[The Kraken]

Hey, Kata . . .
. . . flying front seat, still a "Peter Pilot" is he ????

the K-obra Qualified But Never Flew Them

 

[Gary D.]

Question for ya Gary....

Do you still know what your class date or roster number was for your diving school?

Ship swimmer school and Rescue swimmer schools I don't have a clue but both were in 66. In Pearl
042667 for Scuba No class number. In Pearl
080169 Class #6904 for Second Class. In San Diego

Gary D.

 

[Lake Muroc Diver]

I'm a Vet, Viet Nam Era. Spent the war down below in the abyss of a Missile Silo in Arizona.
I was a SEAL, and in the life before that an Otter, and I hope someday to be a Polar bear, if the Caps don't melt. Who give a rats patoot what we did in the WAR. What matters is that the Land of the Free still makes some damn brave warriors.
In memory of my father(WWII tank Destroyer), and those who fell in combat...
To those posers... we know you by your bad acting

 

[mempilot]

I'm a Vet, Viet Nam Era. Spent the war down below in the abyss of a Missile Silo in Arizona.
I was a SEAL, and in the life before that an Otter, and I hope someday to be a Polar bear, if the Caps don't melt. Who give a rats patoot what we did in the WAR. What matters is that the Land of the Free still makes some damn brave warriors.
In memory of my father(WWII tank Destroyer), and those who fell in combat...
To those posers... we know you by your bad acting

LCM rat? Did a tour of one in Wyoming. That job had to suck! Non-mobile 2-man sub with occassional vacations to the surface. For fun, I guess you could always pop the escape hatch and flood the place with sand and make b oob sand castings to play with or something??

I'm assuming that was the only truth in the above post??