Have you been or are in the Military?

[Gen. Sandworm]

Think we had this one awhile back but was along time ago. Me personally ..... no I was never in the military. I was in Naval JROTC in High School. Which I did manage to obtain the rank of Ensign. Besides that no!

Family
Dad was in Korea during Vietnam
Grandpa was in the Pacific during WW2
Great Uncle was in France on the front lines during WW1.

[Topor]

Times have changed, so I feel safe to admit that I was a Crab some thirty years ago:-)

[Walther]

Not military, but almost 20 years in a heavy rescue and engineering unit of the German civil defense. The unit was non-combatant (though I got trained in explosives and demolitions), but in many aspects equipped like a military engineering platoon in the British Territorial Army. Rank structure was based on the military one, but with different names due to the non-combatant status.
Smallest unit was a "Gruppe" (section), 12 guys riding on one truck (divided into two teams ("Trupps") of four plus team leader ("Truppführer") each, a section leader ("Gruppenführer") and a driver. Two (respectively 3 for a reinforced platoon) rescue sections plus one heavy equipment support section ( 1 Section leader, 1 driver, 5 men in a support equipment truck) plus one platoon command team (1 platoon leader "Zugführer", 1 driver, 1 platoon command team leader ,"Zugtruppführer", equivalent of a platoon sergeant and one dispatch rider) formed one platoon ("Zug").
Service was/is voluntary. During cold war our training was aimed at rescueing people from collapsed buildings after bomb raids, NBC protection/ decontamination, reconstruction of damaged and destroyed essential infrastructure, like roads, bridges, drinking water supply, sewage disposal (to prevent diseases), repair of essential gas and electricity connections.

My highest rank was acting section leader.

Jan

[32Bravo]

I was a ‘Hitman’ for the Salvation Army for some twenty years or so, but as my voice deteriorated and I could no longer 'hit' the right notes, and my clawed hands were unable to shake the collection boxes, I was retired.

[Rising Sun*]

I was a Cut Lunch Commando, aka Weekend Warrior.

But I had to give it up because my cut lunches wouldn't last the weekend. Sometimes the nation requires sacrifices which are too great. :D

[Firefly]

Times have changed, so I feel safe to admit that I was a Crab some thirty years ago:-)

Good for you getting out of that closet. There is a support group called the CA (Crabs anonymous) that may help you come to terms with this.

[Rising Sun*]

Good for you getting out of that closet. There is a support group called the CA (Crabs anonymous) that may help you come to terms with this.

What are Crabs?

I thought it was RAF of some sort??

How did they get that name?

(Crabs here are either marine crustaceans - Gee, that's a surprise - or itchy things you get in your pubes from unclean partners. :D)

[Gen. Sandworm]

What are Crabs?

I thought it was RAF of some sort??

How did they get that name?

(Crabs here are either marine crustaceans - Gee, that's a surprise - or itchy things you get in your pubes from unclean partners. :D)

1. itchy things you get in your pubes

2. Yea

3. The whole RAF got them from the French girls during WW2. - unclean partners. :D

:mrgreen::mrgreen:

[32Bravo]

1. itchy things you get in your pubes

2. Yea

3. The whole RAF got them from the French girls during WW2. - unclean partners. :D

:mrgreen::mrgreen:

I can't quite figure if that's a slight against those heroes of the RAF, or those wonderful ladies accross the Channel? :D

[Gen. Sandworm]

I can't quite figure if that's a slight against those heroes of the RAF, or those wonderful ladies accross the Channel? :D

Its kinda like the ACDC thing! Love the band but funny they all got the clap from the same hooker and then wrote a song about it. The Jack! :D Im sure she was a classy hooker!!!

[Firefly]

There any many theories on where the term Crab comes from. Its been a term applied to the RAF for a while now.

The famous phrase

"If youve time to spare, fly Crab Air!"

[32Bravo]

Its kinda like the ACDC thing! Love the band but funny they all got the clap from the same hooker and then wrote a song about it. The Jack! :D Im sure she was a classy hooker!!!

That's far too deep for an old hippie like me - far out, man!

[32Bravo]

There any many theories on where the term Crab comes from. Its been a term applied to the RAF for a while now.

The famous phrase

"If youve time to spare, fly Crab Air!"

Never heard that one before, marra.

[tankgeezer]

Army, 71' through 74' tank commander in the 1st. Armored div. Germany.stationed at Erlangen, in Bavaria. (near Nurnberg) On my mother's side, family has been in every conflict since the French and Indian war. Father's side, WW2 pacific theater. farther back for sure, but not in the U.S.

[pdf27]

Crabs: the uniform is the colour of Crabfat grease, used by the RN on it's big guns at some point. That's the most convincing explanation I've yet heard anyway.

As for me, I'm serving TA and currently somewhere in the middle of the officer training mill. If I sort my fitness out and get my life in gear I should get my first pip some time next year.

[AllHailCesar]

U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.

[SS-Master]

1st battalion parachutists Belgian army.

[Splinter54]

I am currently rumbling with tanks and stuff :)
I think it is my favored destination to work with Armored Units - it's just like nature and Technic - i love it.

Currently i am SaZ (Soldat auf Zeit - Soldier for a certain timeperiode) for 12 years and i don't know how to proceed - perhaps i will make the Officer career or i will quit and enter the Civilian/Building Protection (they pay better, but i have to inform myself more about that) - everythings open for me at the moment, but when i continue in the Army i will get promoted with the time and a higher ranks means often more boring jobs, than being "in the field".

Four years ago i met up with a friend and he said: "I said i want to go to the Heer - and they pushed me into the Luftwaffe!" I had to laugh so hard about that - well he is now in Civil Protection. - I am no human - i am no animal - i am a Panzergrenadier ... well i sounds better in german :p Er ist kein Mensch! Er is kein Tier! er ist ein Panzergrenadier! ... and by the way, if you knock at a green stone on the ground - pay attantion - it could be one of us :D

[Nickdfresh]

Panzergrenadier has a certain ring to it in English as well.:D

[Nickdfresh]

I was an NCO in the US Army serving in the REMF division.;)

And I was also a weekend warrior and cut lunch boy for a while also, again serving as a REMF in personnel, which I hated...

I've thought about going back in recently, but the thought of being indefinitely extended in Iraq does not appeal to me, but the urge is still there...

[Drake]

A year in the Luftwaffe as conscript. If it wasn't for my glasses I would probably have checked if I could become pilot (though army then, love helicopters). :)

[Librarian]

Major in reserve – Nuclear-Biological-Chemical defense units.

A year in the Luftwaffe as conscript. If it wasn't for my glasses I would probably have checked if I could become pilot (though army then, love helicopters).

Oh, in that case we are almost colleagues, my dear Mr. Drake. I am wearing spectacles too. :)

Furthermore, we were actually very close in some other aspects too – in my time prspective officers have had some … joint east-European multinational exercises back there, in your neighborhood. Something connected with air defense, more precisely with different liquid rocket fuels. Of course, I was on the other side of the fence. :D

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/Langnasen/NVA-1Luftverteidigungsdivision.jpg

NVA - Luftverteidigung

My Lord – when was that – some 25 years ago? Well, our time is running out - we can't stop it screaming out...

Nevertheless, I still remember those beautiful moments we collectively have had back there. If I remembered that well, our motto was "Möglicherweise in Armut - aber immer mit Anmut!" Something like this old melody we were complimented by – you always have to wait patiently for something firstly… in this case some 45 seconds. But after that it really kicks you!

http://dl.marsches.ru/ddr/Im_Paradeschritt/Locken_zum_Zapfenstreich_und_Zapfenstreichmarsch.m p3

As always – all the best! :)

[Chevan]

Hello guys
Oh C-75 "Dvina" in a position, that's a great.
We are colleagues dear mst Labrarian.
I was a commander of Radiolacation Station ( system S-300 , did you hear about?)
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7701/mycombatcarfe9.th.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mycombatcarfe9.jpg)
Five years ago i served in the Far East for two years.

[Egorka]

Hello guys
Oh C-75 "Dvina" in a position, that's a great.
We are colleagues dear mst Labrarian.
I was a commander of Radiolacation Station ( system S-300 , did you hear about?)
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7701/mycombatcarfe9.th.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mycombatcarfe9.jpg)
Five years ago i served in the Far East for two years.
Chevan,
I did not know that "you" is actually two people! :shock:

:D

[Rising Sun*]

Chevan,
I did not know that "you" is actually two people! :shock:

:D

He's schizophrenic.

Good Chevan on the left, bad Chevan on the right. Or is it the other way around? :D

I like the Russian prototype for a Hummer behind Chevan 1 and Chevan 2. Needs a bit more refinement. The vehicle, not the Chevans. :D

[Chevan]

Chevan,
I did not know that "you" is actually two people! :shock:

:D
I can't say mate that is me.
Coz the FSB could caught me. I've just published the Secret Russian vearpon photo.
They could search me and find out using this photo:)

[Egorka]

I can't say mate that is me.
Coz the FSB could caught me. I've just published the Secret Russian vearpon photo.
They could search me and find out using this photo:)

Let's just say "the one on the brink is you"... :)

"Тот, что с краю - ты." :)

[Chevan]

Let's just say "the one on the brink is you"... :)

"Тот, что с краю - ты." :)
Yes my friend.
The brink is me;)
But i've forgot from a what brick: left or right:)
I just remember that man is me who dressed in green uniform.

[Firefly]

As I am due to retire from the Crabs in the next few years you will need to keep a look out for my book, the Hell of 5 Star. I intend it to be a no holds barred expose of the pitfalls that the Air Force system of choosing 5 Star hotels brings and all the things that can and do often go terribly wrong with Room Service. The 'Hell' of waiting 2 days to get your laundry washed and pressed for you. Its no joke, I lost 3 socks this year and had a tramline put in my best walking out trousers, something just has to be voiced about this shoddy way of going to war, and damned to any official secrets act....... Not to mention the paltry rates, I mean how are you supposed to have a decent meal in the US on a measley $70 a day. I nearly starved to death for that month in Aug!!!

[Nickdfresh]

Chevan,
I did not know that "you" is actually two people! :shock:

:D

I can't see anything. Stop wearing camouflage!

[Egorka]

I can't see anything. Stop wearing camouflage!
Yes! Chevan is the one in the middle! :mrgreen:

[Rising Sun*]

Yes! Chevan is the one in the middle! :mrgreen:

In the middle of what? :D

[Chevan]

In the middle of photo
:D

[Soldierboy]

"Тот, что с краю - ты." :)

What Egde?

[Egorka]

In the middle of what? :D
In the middle of the group of camuflaged people.

And by the way, it is a joke... :D

[Egorka]

OK.

It is a russian joke. When there are two girls walking in front of you you loudly say: "Look at that! The one on the side is so beautifull."

But since there are only 2 of them - each is on the side. And this creates confusion among the girls. Confusion that can be exploited by a yougman to make a first move to establish contact. ;)

Since there are 2 people on the photo, I said that Chevan is in the middle of the group of people.

[Rising Sun*]

OK.

It is a russian joke. When there are two girls walking in front of you you loudly say: "Look at that! The one on the side is so beautifull."

But since there are only 2 of them - each is on the side. And this creates confusion among the girls. Confusion that can be exploited by a yougman to make a first move to establish contact. ;)

Since there are 2 people on the photo, I said that Chevan is in the middle of the group of people.

The Australian version is if you and a mate see a couple of girls, you grab the best one for yourself by saying to your mate

"Cop [have a look at] them. Your one's ugly." :D

[Chevan]

OK.

It is a russian joke. When there are two girls walking in front of you you loudly say: "Look at that! The one on the side is so beautifull."

But since there are only 2 of them - each is on the side. And this creates confusion among the girls. Confusion that can be exploited by a yougman to make a first move to establish contact. ;)

Since there are 2 people on the photo, I said that Chevan is in the middle of the group of people.
Well mate just if you want to establish the contact with me .....:):D

[Egorka]

Well mate just if you want to establish the contact with me .....:):D

If you are easy to confuse, then ... maybe? ;)

[the_librarian]

Hi all,

Field Artillery, National Guard-Desert Storm. M-109/8-inch. I wasn't a gunbunny, just a recovery vehicle operator. I miss the comradeship the most. I don't miss the sand!

Anybody here ever work on a Gamma-goat? Ugh....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gama_Goat