1st battalion 5th Marines 1st division. '82-'86. What did I do? That's classified. Where did I go? Lots of places. Team Spirit '83 in Korea I was there.

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1964 - 1969

Infantryman-Fort Lenardwood, MO.

First CAV Airmobile - Fort Benning, GA.

Army Boxing Team 1968 - 1869

Lt. Welterweight, Welterweight.

Middleweight Champion

Combat Engineer (12B)- Idaho ARNG -Iraq, (Kirkuk, Al Huwaijah)
Infantry (11B)-Montana ARNG-Bosnia, (Tuzla, Srebanicha)
Engineman-USNavy (Midway Is & 7th Flt-Pacific)

22 1/2 years in the Air Force. My title was Ground Radio Communications Equipment Repairman but I spent most of my time in specail duty assignment, one required I complete Ranger School. Not many Air Force pukes walking around with the Ranger rocker on their BDU's. I also spent a couple of years training with the Special Forces. This was in the developement and fielding of a mobile nuclear missle system. Then I had to help develop a training program to train other Air Force members how to field, camouflage, protect and maintain the system. Basically, I spent a lot of those 22 years playing GI Joe.

U.S. Army, '67-'70 CH-47 (Chinook mechanic) '69-'70 Dong Ba Thin Viet Nam 1st Aviation Brigade, 243rd ASHCO, CH-47 mechanic,door gunner,crew chief. Yeah, I'd do it again.................maybe, probably....... was much younger then

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Viet Nam '69-'70 U.S. Army, 1st Aviation Bde., 243rd. ASH Co.-CH-47 Chinooks

USMC 1959-1964 Avionics,Headquarters& Maintenance Squadren36, Uh34's Hmm362,363,364,365,HR2s HMH 462,Avionics Quality Control Inspector.Had to test hop a lot of Helos.flight pay and Pro pay.Took a cut in pay when I got out.

Randy

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Semper FI

Naval Security Group - Cryptologic Technician (Maintenance)
1969-1990

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"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … "
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45

Air defense officer, 1st ID (Mech); OPFOR 11th ACR; Logistics Officer and Co CDR 35th ID MOARNG; Embedded Team Trainer(combat advisory) Afghanistan; Operations Officer Kosovo; currently Regional Training Institude MOARNG

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A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

I think that might be a bit too much of a question (until I write my own book about it). LOL!
What I did does not matter so much as I was there to do it voluntarily. 1st BN 5thMarines 1st div.

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1975 to 1979 U.S. Coast Guard. Three Ships - Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic, Arctic, and North Pacific. Search And Rescue, Drug patrol, fisheries patrol, International Ice Patrol.

Army sent me to Ft. Dix after basic training in 1968 to become a radio operator. Then sent to Ft. Benning to be in the 313th Combat Engineer battalion, where I became a clerk in their S-2 section (intelligence section). Remained a clerk in S-2, assigned to 2/47th Inf. Bn, 9th Div in Vietnam and then in 100th Inf Bn, 25th Div at Schofield Barracks, Ha. S-2 work was much more interesting when in Vietnam.

1973-1976 USMC
1st Recruit Bttn. San Diego,
Combat Engineer School, CamLej, NC
2MARDIV, 2ENGBTN
1st MAW, Iwakuni, Japan
2MARDIV, 2ENGBTN, D Co.

430 TFS 474 TFW 1969 -1973
Squadron got the snot shot out of it and we can home in defeat and disgrace. a poor aircraft rushed to battle. Many of our dead were never found This one was

William Clare Coltman, Colonel, United States Air Force

US Army 72-92
Units, in numerical order, not chronological
1st Cav Division, 2nd Inf Division, 3rd Armored Division, 4th Inf Division, 7th Inf Division, 9th Inf Division, 25th Inf Division

Ist ID, Nam 1969 to 1970. Infantry squad gunner.

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SPQR

Basic and AIT at Fort Ord, Ca. AIT training in supply and small arms repair. Sent to Ft.Wainwright, Alaska and was H.Q. armorer for 172 nd Airborne Battalion, 4/9 Inf. "Manchu"., till end of my enlistment in 1978.

Currently in the 180th Airlift Squadron out of Missouri

1st ID 74th EOD Ft Riley KS

Corpsman 2007 - 2012

Bethesda Naval Hospital
2nd MARDIV, 1/10
Senior Medical Advisor, 4/1/215 Afghan Nat'l Army

USN Basic Training at Great Lakes IL - completed late 2000 (Was an old man at 29)

Air Traffic Controller “A” School at Naval Air Technical Training Center (NTTC) – completed early 2001

Transferred Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility (AFWTF) at Roosevelt Roads PR, sent TAD Naval Security on base and on Vieques island from 2001 – early 2002.

Release back to AFWTF and became fully qualified at the FACSFAC Caribbean and Inner Range – was one of the last enlisted personnel to leave after decommissioning, left in late 2003.

Was given a choice of orders for Lemoore Naval Air Station Radar Approach or TACRON 11, but was pulled for special assignment overseas until injured and medically discharged 2005. I was not wounded in combat, rather fell from a forty foot watch tower fully geared up.

All-in-all I had a wonderful time, it was better than Disneyland ;-)

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Chastised Monkey MSIT
Disabled American Veterans – Member
National Rifle Association – Member
American Radio Relay League – Member
Professional Association of Dive Instructors – Open Water Cert
FAA Airmen Certificates – ATC Radar Controller, CTO, and Private Rating.
Disabled Veteran – United States Navy, AC2 (NAM (2), MUC, NGCM, NDSM, GWOTEM, GWOTSM, MOVSM, SSDR, OSR (2), NERM, NEPM)