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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I only recently discovered this photo, in fact, from a large collection of family portraits my elderly mother gave me in the past month or so. This was obviously one of the two shots Lackland AFB took of me in Basic in 1981, and of the two images, this was the one they forwarded to my mother. The other 'official' one that I've had all these years had a slightly different viewpoint (they'd ordered me to smile) and was in color. (Actually I prefer this one to the other!) This would very likely be the very first shot ever taken of me in my USAF uniform. Yours Truly: AB Whitmore, Bret S., 3704 BMTS, FLT 697. Photo probably taken 9 or 10 Dec 1981.
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1994. Graduation from Tennessee State University and my Commissioning. Here with my beautiful wife Shannon! Almost 22 years and still going!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Maj Dwayne Helton Great photo - thanks for sharing! I owe you a vote up - just behind by a couple of days!
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Maj Dwayne Helton
Thanks COL Burroughs...looking forward to future posts! Love seeing the old photos. Hope you have the opportunity to check out the Air Force Basic Training pics out of Lackland AFB. (http://www.bmtflightphotos.af.mil/)
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Charles Hawkinson Thanks for sharing - I owe you a vote up here in the next couple of days - I'm behind and need to get caught up - thank you again!
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Here are my first 3 photos take while in basic training. 1st photo in black and white I am in the very front with a SJ (super jock) patch on my shoulder. 2nd photo is outside the barracks at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. B-5/3 Blue Devils, 3rd photo is last day of basic back in 1979
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SSG Joseph Leckie
well looks like the first photo didn't attach, so the photos you see are photos 2 and 3.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSG Joseph Leckie Thanks for sharing the great pictures. I owe you a vote up - ran out today and I'm playing catch up - thanks again!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PO1 Meaghan Menth Great picture - thanks for sharing - I owe you a vote up tomorrow - all out today!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SPC Margaret Higgins Thanks for sharing your photo and thank you for your service!
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My first days in the Army and my very last at my retirement parade. A bunch of folks were talking in a Facebook group trying to remember their BCT company. I even remember our BCT Cheer: "Echo-3-3, Smoke & PT. Best damned company in the BCT!!" Basic Training was in 1973; retirement in 1994. Third picture is of my Dad graduating from his Signal School Course at Camp San Luis Obispo, CA, in 1952 just before shipping out to Panama. [I couldn't figure out any way to edit the picture sizes at all. The system just resized them and put them where it wanted.]
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SGT Kevin Hughes
SGM Dr. David Hatfield,
Of course you remember everything Top. That is how you become a Sergeant Major in the first place. And in less than 20 years? Way to go Soldier. You could fill a concert hall with Sergeants. You could barely fill a McDonalds with Sergeant Majors, or Command Sergeant Majors. You earned it.
SGT Kevin Hughes
Of course you remember everything Top. That is how you become a Sergeant Major in the first place. And in less than 20 years? Way to go Soldier. You could fill a concert hall with Sergeants. You could barely fill a McDonalds with Sergeant Majors, or Command Sergeant Majors. You earned it.
SGT Kevin Hughes
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Charles Williams Thanks for sharing and for your service to this country!
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SPC Woody Bullard
COL Charles Williams: Outstanding U.S. Army MOS 95B (MOS # in 1969).
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PO3 Brad Phlipot Great photos! Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service. I owe you a "vote up" tomorrow - ran out already today at 6:17 AM PST!
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SGT Kevin Hughes
PO3 Brad Philpot,
That is one of the coolest Basic Pictures I have ever seen. Like a Professional took it. Maybe back in '69 if my girl had that kind of picture she would have stayed my girl. Don't worry it turned out okay, I found another girl and she is with me now, forty years later!
SGT Kevin Hughes
That is one of the coolest Basic Pictures I have ever seen. Like a Professional took it. Maybe back in '69 if my girl had that kind of picture she would have stayed my girl. Don't worry it turned out okay, I found another girl and she is with me now, forty years later!
SGT Kevin Hughes
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1968 - 2LT at 20 years old Photo taken prior to deploying to Vietnam with the 3d Bde, 82d Airborne Division. All The Way!
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