troop greeters?

[caliny]

Originally Posted by Okie

caliny--I must say I've never redeployed through a civilian airfield. I've always flown back to my home base.

I guess I should have been clearer. His first point of entry was Bangor. From there he was flown to McGuire and then shuttled and flown to a few other places before eventually ending up back at home base.

[Battleshort]

Originally Posted by caliny

I guess I should have been clearer. His first point of entry was Bangor. From there he was flown to McGuire and then shuttled and flown to a few other places before eventually ending up back at home base.

Just a snippit of info - Bangor is also an Air Guard base.

[caliny]

Hence, lots of reservists and guard guys coming through?

[Battleshort]

Originally Posted by caliny

Hence, lots of reservists and guard guys coming through?

...along with AD. It's a good place to stop for fuel and a stretch.

It's also in the flight path. One can look up in the afternoon and see a stream of civ flights coming down from the northeast. The mil transports do a pit stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_navigation

[spirit_eyes]

the reason i started this thread, was because i thought the WHOLE story should be told. yes, bangor is a tiny part of the world. but the story about the movie has made the 6:30 national dan rather (oops, showing age) type of news. and i wanted folks who didn't get credit, to know they haven't been forgotton, like cval's son.

[spirit_eyes]

"I very well could have seen more action in my short time in then you did in your entire career."

o.k. varible, you've heard here, and other forums what i did while i was in. what about you? i've been pretty honest, up front about things i did while i was in. but you never say what your job was, where you were deployed (me? quick run down, sicily x3, iceland x2, puerto rico 1.5 years. earned 5 sea service ribbons)
and i've tried to not say that i deserve more credit for things i did while in, than anyone else. i have complained (like most folks here) that i watched butt kissers get credit for my work. of course.
and yes, like most folks who served 20+ years of active duty, i do put myself in a different catagory than those who served 2 years. and anyone who knows me, has heard me say "honorable service, is honorable service, it doesn't matter how long"

[Variable Wind]

Originally Posted by spirit_eyes

"I very well could have seen more action in my short time in then you did in your entire career."

o.k. varible, you've heard here, and other forums what i did while i was in. what about you? i've been pretty honest, up front about things i did while i was in. but you never say what your job was, where you were deployed (me? quick run down, sicily x3, iceland x2, puerto rico 1.5 years. earned 5 sea service ribbons)
and i've tried to not say that i deserve more credit for things i did while in, than anyone else. i have complained (like most folks here) that i watched butt kissers get credit for my work. of course.
and yes, like most folks who served 20+ years of active duty, i do put myself in a different catagory than those who served 2 years. and anyone who knows me, has heard me say "honorable service, is honorable service, it doesn't matter how long"

I was an Virginia Army Guardsman from Jan 2001 to May of this year. During my time I was a UH-60 Blackhawk mechanic and crewchief. I was deployed to Arizona for border patrol twice for a total of 4 months, and deployed to Iraq for just over a year. My unit was deployed to the Al Anbar province with 3rd MAW as the first Army Aviation Unit to deploy under a Marine Command. We broke the sortie # and flight hour records for OIF because we operated at a USMC Op Tempo for the length of an Army deployment. Our mission was CasEvac, Angel Flight, Evacing Prisoners, and of course inserting and supporting 1st Force Recon in their missions. A friend of mine actually carried Zarkowis body back after the AF nailed his ass...I think it was the AF...wasnt it F-16s who dropped the bombs?

Honorable service is honorable service, but as a guardsman I took notice at your stereotype that reservists only stand behind the lines, when we happen to be right there mixing it up with the rest of them. We aviation folks are an overly proud bunch too so I am expected to make a point when something doesnt sit well with me.

[spirit_eyes]

you know, i have no clue what records any of the 4 squadrons i was in, did. too busy trying to do my own thing. and truthfully, being a ground pounder, i could care less. only the officers, and aircrew worried about that. although, my husband who retired with over 8,000 flight hours, could also care less, or remember. he also has 8 sea service ribbons, and did so many dets, the stack was bigger than his personel record. add on load team leader, and bear trap tech. but that was his his thing, i just know neither one of us was ever home.
going back as long as the civil war (?) active duty and reservists have never gotten along. one feels the other whines too much, etc.
my point was, and is, all i see getting credit is reservists. and i'm standing up for folks who aren't merely deployed, but actually stationed, for more than a year. and getting no credit for walking thru the blood and guts. or just even, simply doing their job, year after year.

[ramrod]

Originally Posted by Variable Wind

I was an Virginia Army Guardsman from Jan 2001 to May of this year. During my time I was a UH-60 Blackhawk mechanic and crewchief. I was deployed to Arizona for border patrol twice for a total of 4 months, and deployed to Iraq for just over a year. My unit was deployed to the Al Anbar province with 3rd MAW as the first Army Aviation Unit to deploy under a Marine Command. We broke the sortie # and flight hour records for OIF because we operated at a USMC Op Tempo for the length of an Army deployment. Our mission was CasEvac, Angel Flight, Evacing Prisoners, and of course inserting and supporting 1st Force Recon in their missions. A friend of mine actually carried Zarkowis body back after the AF nailed his ass...I think it was the AF...wasnt it F-16s who dropped the bombs?
Honorable service is honorable service, but as a guardsman I took notice at your stereotype that reservists only stand behind the lines, when we happen to be right there mixing it up with the rest of them. We aviation folks are an overly proud bunch too so I am expected to make a point when something doesnt sit well with me.

I believe it was. It defitnitely was a special mission.
His bodyguards house was absolutely destroyed. Obliterated might be a better word.

[Variable Wind]

Originally Posted by spirit_eyes

you know, i have no clue what records any of the 4 squadrons i was in, did. too busy trying to do my own thing. and truthfully, being a ground pounder, i could care less. only the officers, and aircrew worried about that. although, my husband who retired with over 8,000 flight hours, could also care less, or remember. he also has 8 sea service ribbons, and did so many dets, the stack was bigger than his personel record. add on load team leader, and bear trap tech. but that was his his thing, i just know neither one of us was ever home.
going back as long as the civil war (?) active duty and reservists have never gotten along. one feels the other whines too much, etc.
my point was, and is, all i see getting credit is reservists. and i'm standing up for folks who aren't merely deployed, but actually stationed, for more than a year. and getting no credit for walking thru the blood and guts. or just even, simply doing their job, year after year.

Well 1) it has been explained by active duty members here coming through Bangor that it is not just limited to the Reservists and
2) When AD people start getting STATIONED in Iraq like the do in Korea, then maybe you will have some room to separate yourself. As I understand it, Korea is the only hostile environment that military members are stationed...and even then I think it is considered a deployment.

And if you are a woman you arent a ground pounder. Women arent in the infantry, and unless you are a SeaBee or a Corpman, what groundpounding action do you see?