Any other S2000 owners serving/served in the Armed Forces?
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From: Lake Stevens, WA
Just curious to know how many other S owners have served or are serving in the Armed Forces. If you have, what branch, what was your job and what interesting things have you done? I will start.
I will have been in the Navy for seven years on the 9th of this month. I'm an Electronics Technician Second Class in the Submarine Force and have worked primarily in communications. After completing my submarine training in New London, Connecticut, I went to my first ship, a fast-attack submarine named the USS Columbia SSN-771 (the SSN stands for "submerged ship nuclear") The Columbia was homeported in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. I served on the Columbia for four years where I worked as a radioman and as an electronic surveillance operator (hard to explain what that is, but basically monitoring for threats by watching radar activity in the area of the ship) and in that time completed two six month deployments and several smaller ones. It seemed like we were at sea all the time.
I now work as a communications supervisor at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base in Silverdale, Washington which is just east of Seattle across Puget Sound. I have been to many places while serving in the Navy, places I probably would have never seen otherwise. These places include Chicago, Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., Canada, Mexico, The islands of Maui, Oahu, Hawaii and Kauai, Guam, Australia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain and The United Arab Emirates. All were fun except the last two. There is something about the Persian Gulf that just isn't appealing. The plan is to get out of the Navy in about a year and a half so I can pursue a career in law enforcement. I do plan on staying in the active reserves however.
Oh, and that joke about submarines going down with 100 men and returning with 50 couples is untrue. And remember, there are two types of ships in the Navy. Submarines and targets!!!
I will have been in the Navy for seven years on the 9th of this month. I'm an Electronics Technician Second Class in the Submarine Force and have worked primarily in communications. After completing my submarine training in New London, Connecticut, I went to my first ship, a fast-attack submarine named the USS Columbia SSN-771 (the SSN stands for "submerged ship nuclear") The Columbia was homeported in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. I served on the Columbia for four years where I worked as a radioman and as an electronic surveillance operator (hard to explain what that is, but basically monitoring for threats by watching radar activity in the area of the ship) and in that time completed two six month deployments and several smaller ones. It seemed like we were at sea all the time.
I now work as a communications supervisor at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base in Silverdale, Washington which is just east of Seattle across Puget Sound. I have been to many places while serving in the Navy, places I probably would have never seen otherwise. These places include Chicago, Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., Canada, Mexico, The islands of Maui, Oahu, Hawaii and Kauai, Guam, Australia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain and The United Arab Emirates. All were fun except the last two. There is something about the Persian Gulf that just isn't appealing. The plan is to get out of the Navy in about a year and a half so I can pursue a career in law enforcement. I do plan on staying in the active reserves however.
Oh, and that joke about submarines going down with 100 men and returning with 50 couples is untrue. And remember, there are two types of ships in the Navy. Submarines and targets!!!
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I'm not anymore, but I did spend 10 years in the AF in Telecommunications. Spent 5 years in Florida, 3 in Panama, and 2 in Georgia, with about 6 months spent in training in Texas. Glad I'm out now, but I miss my friends I met in the AF.
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From: Sin City
I'm a 2Lt in the Air Force, just graduated from the academy, and attending the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey to get my Master's. Monterey is a sweet place to have a S2K.
After Grad school I'm going into intel.
After Grad school I'm going into intel.
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From: Ranson, WV
retired after 20, GySgt, USMC. was seeing too many hang till 30 and dying on fishing trips the following summer. thought it best to bail while still young enough to find a good paying civilian job.
and it is really 45 couples, 2 menage-a-trois and 4 people who refuse to talk to each other anymore.
keith
and it is really 45 couples, 2 menage-a-trois and 4 people who refuse to talk to each other anymore.
keith
