Posted on Jun 8, 2015
Do you have your first photograph in uniform - Share your first photograph in Uniform?
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ALL New Connections - Back by Popular Demand! I'm still receiving some great photos from all you RP Members. THANKS!
Keep them coming!
All you photogenic military personnel out there in RP Land let’s have a little photo session just to lighten it up today! Share the first photograph or the earliest photograph of yourself when you entered the military and tell us the date of the photo.
I'll start with Private Burroughs in 1975 at Fort Leonard Wood, MO & end with Colonel Mikel in 2005!
Keep them coming!
All you photogenic military personnel out there in RP Land let’s have a little photo session just to lighten it up today! Share the first photograph or the earliest photograph of yourself when you entered the military and tell us the date of the photo.
I'll start with Private Burroughs in 1975 at Fort Leonard Wood, MO & end with Colonel Mikel in 2005!
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Just for a little variety, here's my dad's first picture in the Navy, 1940. Look at the length of the bayonet on that Springfield '03
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SGT Eliyahu Rooff That is an awesome picture and probably one of the oldest so far - I'll have to double-check, but I believe it is - great - thanks for sharing!
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SPC Mark Brown
SGT Eliyahu Rooff thank you for that great WWII photo of your pop. Nice to see it. He was a member of the Greatest Generation. Bravo Zulo
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Not my first photo, couldn't find that one, but this is in 1994 while stationed at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, Hanau, Germany. I was PFC Billiot here.
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I had not yet graduated basic training but I had a pass on Thanksgiving to visit my sister. This is really Thanksgiving 1972 but developed in December. Loved the double breasted jackets made popular by Jackie Kennedy.
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MSgt Rosemary Connolly
PS: my flight graduated in December and the weather was bad so our parade got cancelled. Unfortunately we never had a flight photo taken either as a result of that. :( See if you can find your flight. http://www.bmtflightphotos.af.mil/1970s/index.asp
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MSgt Rosemary Connolly That is an awesome photo - thanks for sharing. I'm pretty far behind in my "votes up", but I will get to you I promise thank you!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MSgt Rosemary Connolly Sorry it took so long - finally got caught up to you - thanks
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Not in uniform; however this shows in what branch I served- and proudly so.
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Indeed, I do, sir. Taken at Fort Polk, BCT, June 1975.
If you look close, you'll see the sweat marks on the collar of my shirt. It was extremely hot, we were being hurried through the process, and everybody was sweating up a storm for these pictures.
If you look close, you'll see the sweat marks on the collar of my shirt. It was extremely hot, we were being hurried through the process, and everybody was sweating up a storm for these pictures.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
CW5 (Join to see) Great photo - thanks for sharing and thank for your service.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PFC David Ryba That is great and thanks for sharing and for your service. I''l catch up to you tomorrow with an "up vote" - All out this morning!
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I finally found my first picture in uniform. January 1975 at Fort Leonard Wood, MO graduation from Basic Training from D-1-3 in the aluminum-sided Quonset huts. After this we marched across post to B-2-4 for Advanced Individual Training as 12B Combat Engineer. The first set of WWII wooden barracks we marched into were soon declared unsafe after the stairs collapsed. Then we were marched to newer brick barracks.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs, CW5 (Join to see), SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas, SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL, SFC William Farrell LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon SGT Michael Thorin SPC Margaret Higgins Capt Seid Waddell SSgt (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris RamseyCPL Eric Escasio SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
COL Mikel J. Burroughs, CW5 (Join to see), SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas, SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL, SFC William Farrell LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon SGT Michael Thorin SPC Margaret Higgins Capt Seid Waddell SSgt (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris RamseyCPL Eric Escasio SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
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