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May 19th, 2008, 05:38 PM
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#1 | | Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Virginia
Posts: 3,165
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May 19th, 2008, 05:41 PM
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#2 | | Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NC Florida
Posts: 10,136
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Aviation Electronics Technician
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May 19th, 2008, 05:49 PM
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#3 | | Newbie
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: S.W. PA
Posts: 13
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Gunners mate Tech.
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May 19th, 2008, 09:45 PM
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#4 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MN
Posts: 1,248
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Interior Communications Electrician.
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May 19th, 2008, 10:42 PM
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#5 | | Grunt
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Mobile, Alabama
Posts: 102
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Construction Electrican (power)
aDios!
Howard
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May 20th, 2008, 05:35 AM
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#6 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 43
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Enlisted as an aviation electronics technician and crossed rated to intelligence specialist when AT's were overmanned.
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May 20th, 2008, 07:51 AM
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#7 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,336
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On the Eighth Day GOD Made Gunners. I started out as a Gunner's Mate (Guns)
Finished with a Early clonton ret as Chief Gunner's Mate.
Last edited by gunnerm1a; May 31st, 2008 at 11:13 AM.
Reason: completed sentence
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May 20th, 2008, 09:03 AM
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#8 | | Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Virginia
Posts: 3,165
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Originally Posted by gunnerm1a On the Eighth Day GOD Made Gunners. I started out as a Gunner's Mate (Guns)
Chief Gunner's Mate | Can't argue with that, Gunner! I'll drive the boat and you burn the belts. 
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May 20th, 2008, 07:13 PM
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#9 | | "DOC"
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Southeast of Disorder
Posts: 22
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I am a Hospital Corpsman
I've been called a Loblolly Boy, Surgeons Steward and Pharmacist Mate.
I've also been called a Chanker Mechanic, Pecker Checker, an Aviation Spring Mechanic and late to chow. 
But you can just call me Doc.
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May 20th, 2008, 08:05 PM
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#10 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: El Paso, TX
Posts: 1,004
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I started as a seaman in first division, striking for Boatswain's Mate. Then I discovered CIC with airconditioning. I was two points shy of being able to be a firecontrolman, so I became a radarman. After schooling for a year, including those newfangled things called computers and their programming, I was sent to school in Coronado, then 29 Palms and I ended up in some forsaken place called Quang Tri. Interesting folks. Used to wander up to the river, **** Ha River, and see what could be fished out or over it. Left in a hurry due an overabundance of hornets, wasps or somesuch buzzing thing flying past my head. Ended up with a minesweep but never could find the handle on that broom.
Came back a little disillusioned, got a degree and they offer me the world! Yup, I could be an ossifer. Limited Duty no less. Heck, I thought if they limit the duty, I won't be going anywhere and I'll be collecting all that 'O' pay. Wrong. Then they forgot to tall a bunch of us that after two years we became line officers. And they wanted us to shed our enlisted ways. I was busy in Middle Eastern countries at the time and missed that mailgram. After I had all the fun I possibly could and saw one of our own promoted to CNO (God rest ye, Mike Boorda), I left to pursue real money. When asked, I was a tour guide. Cause I sure had to provide a lot of directions and even show some of the other services around strange spots in foreign countries.
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May 21st, 2008, 07:31 AM
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#11 | | Call Sign: Bronco
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 41
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Enlisted 1970 under Electronics Tech / Nuclear Power program. ET school in Great Lakes, Nuke school in Mare Island, CA. Nuke prototype (S5G plant) in Idaho, but got picked up for the old NESEP (Naval Enlisted Scientific Ed. Program) program, the best deal ever invented for swabbies. Got a free ride at the U. of Idaho for 4 years, got commissioned as a boot Ensign, went to flight school in Pensacola, FL and Corpus Christi, TX. Designated Naval Aviator July, 1977, the proudest day of my life. Spent 3 years in Rota, Spain flying spy version of the P-3, then 2 years in lovely Kingsville, TX as a instructor pilot in the T-2C. Separated honorably March 1982. The Nav been berry berry good to me. Great times, great friends, fantastic memories. Anchors aweigh!
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May 21st, 2008, 09:17 AM
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#12 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 17
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Parachute Rigger (PR)
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May 21st, 2008, 11:31 AM
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#13 | | TFL Staff Alumni
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Blue State or Behind Enemy Lines!!
Posts: 1,387
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Started as RM (radioman)...Made 3rd class PO under this MOS, then cross rated to MA (master at arms), PCS'd out in 1991 as a MA2....
Tom 
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May 24th, 2008, 11:52 AM
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#14 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: It's Still Raining
Posts: 150
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FTG1 (UW) Submarines after 2 years of school Sub, A and C also had a stint of working as a Gunners mate in the Armory aboard Tender, I was a Range Officer performed Weapons Maintenance etc... transferred to Sub duty north pole runs, was an instructor at Subtrafac San diego in the Attack center decided 10 years where enough, Wish I had finished another 10
Last edited by subhunter; June 23rd, 2008 at 06:44 AM.
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June 2nd, 2008, 03:53 AM
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#15 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Wimberley, Texas
Posts: 625
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Started as a boot Boilerman, then up to Senior Chief select BT, commissioned 1981 and finished up CWO3 with Spec War in Little Creek. Retired in 1991.
Ken 
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