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On ramp click on the link in my Sig to go to the military part of m/a

 

I have to ask seeing I am a little ignorant when it comes to Army terminology, what’s ah 63Charlie? I am curious seeing you mentioned you were Armored Calvary. My Dad was with the 4th out of Fort Riley in 64’ as a tank mech. It was important to me when I started my career in the Corps that my first unit was a Tank Bn, swung it so a Tank Bn was my last unit when I retired.

 

MOS 63C
Supervises and performs organizational maintenance on wheel and track vehicles.

 

Back in the day, those were the codes for our Military Occupation Specialty or MOS. For example "67" was aviation and "N" was a UH-1 helicopter, so a mechanic on a Huey was a 67N. "95" was military police and patrol was "95B" and corrections was "95C" . I always kept as far away as I could from the MOS "11B" (eleven bush) which was a grunt. :lol:

 

You'd a never made it in the Corps, Jim. Regardless of 'MOS', every Marine is a rifleman.:biggrin5:

 

Your are right Friskie. I knew that and it is exactly why I did NOT join the Marines. :lol:

There was a questionnaire we had to complete in basic, with sneaky questions scattered through it, like "were you a Boy Scout", "do you like to go hiking", "do you like to camp out". I'm not stupid, so I said NO to everyone of them.

 

Thanks!

Very true, some more than others! I liked being in units with lots of rolling stock, can't see humping when you can roll there. :biggrin5:

LOL!

 

Easy, I resemble that 11B. Infantry!

 

Yes Rick, but you wised up and changed your MOS to 95B.

 

Good thing too because a Scout is Trustworthy and a few other sometimes inconvenient things.

I always thought Resourceful should have been the 13th point of the Scout Law. Then I was reminded that Trustworthy and Obedient would interfere with that 'pon occasion.

 

I don't remember the Obedient part, that could get you killed.

 

I'll have you know I was completely "trustworthy" Friskie. I could always be "trusted" to do something...........be it right, wrong or indifferent, which often took a degree of resourcefulness .

 

Active Army here:
1991-1995 Ft Richardson, AK
1995-2003 Reserves, Ft Meade
2003-current AGR, Maryland Army National Guard, Adelphi, MD.
MOSs:
91X. - Maintenance Supervisor and 42A - Admin NCO.

I'm staying for 20 active then relaxing.

 

I am a PPR (permanent physical reject) from all US Armed forces - and somewhere I have the appeal rejection letter from the U.S. Army Surgeon General that told me. I respect all those that can and/or would serve.

 

Boy - I went over to the Vet's forum as suggested by Rick. I posted a couple of comments and then realized most of the threads died in 2011! Wow!

Pat

 

Yea, it's kinda hard to swap sea stories from a keyboard and there's a real possibility that you could find yourself drinking alone. :beer

 

Cheers to that!

 

We could revive it if folks start posting there again.

 

I've been trying to revive it, check it out.

 

Yea, I thought the same thing, hasn't worked out that way yet.