Veteran Appreciation Thread

[Eagle1]

Every day should be Veterans Day.
The very best of us.

Not sure about that for me, it's like HS reunion. I'm not the person I was back then and don't want to be reminded......
However EVERY vet deserves respect for their choice to serve.

 

[jjeff]

Because I was USAF?

We used watch the Army in tents from our hotel rooms, when on TDY...

Air force also had the best chow hands down imo, I'd frequently go off base to a nearby AF base to eat. Meanwhile Our galley made a mre look delicious, for a period of time anyway.

 

[Hay Dude]

My brother served in the Chair Force

 

[jjeff]

Lol made me remember a line from a old cadence we sung "were not the coast guard they don't even work hard" apologize to all the coasties out there.

 

[Semper Paratus]

Dad was a WWII Army Infantry Officer. At 18, in Aug 1945 he was on a transport to the western Pacific heading for some staging area in support of the planned invasion of the Japanese homeland. The came a couple of bombs...and as they say the rest is history.
I was a Coast Guard Officer, in the 80's, and served on High Endurance Cutters well north of the Aleutian Chain and then commercial vessel safety. After 6 years I got out and started overhauling Navy CVN propulsion plants. Now retired and piddling about.

 

[masscity]

About the boats that ran the rivers in Viet Nam, my buddy was in the Coast Guard and they did the same thing as the Navy.

I posted earlier that I was in the USAF Oct 64-Dec 68. Michigan did a nice thing, gave us Viet Nam era vets $400 about 6 months after I got out. Came in handy big time, because I was broke.

I don't know what they gave to the ones who were in Viet Nam, but I'm sure it was much larger.

 

[masscity]

Desmond Doss - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There're many MOH recipients, but this guy was something else. They made a movie about him.

President Truman said when shaking his hand that he considered this a greater honor than being President.

 

[MossRoad]

Desmond Doss - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There're many MOH recipients, but this guy was something else. They made a movie about him.

President Truman said when shaking his hand that he considered this a wogreater honor than being President.

Wow! Read that citation.

 

[deserteagle71]

About the boats that ran the rivers in Viet Nam, my buddy was in the Coast Guard and they did the same thing as the Navy.

I posted earlier that I was in the USAF Oct 64-Dec 68. Michigan did a nice thing, gave us Viet Nam era vets $400 about 6 months after I got out. Came in handy big time, because I was broke.

I don't know what they gave to the ones who were in Viet Nam, but I'm sure it was much larger.

Pennsylvania did something about as nice for Vietnam vets. They had a program wherein newly released vets were given preferential treatment in getting good-paying jobs; they contacted me shortly after I was discharged and I ended up with a job with the Postal Service.

But the best benefit - though I've yet to take advantage of it - of military service in Vietnam was that now I carry a VA medical card. I had to show proof I served in-country in Vietnam and drew "Hostile Fire Pay" to qualify for the card. But I won't have to worry about paying for medical care in my later years.

 

[Eagle1]

Wow! Read that citation.

Best part of the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" are closing credits with clips of interviews of Desmond and other from his unit.