Posted on Jun 8, 2015
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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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!
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SP5 David Cox
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Me, during BCT at Ft. Leonard Wood, Jan or Feb 78. It snowed, a lot... Due to weather restrictions, we never did a bivouac, sometimes had to do PT in the barracks with the drill at the end of the hall, one person from each bay in the doorway to relay commands to the rest of us in the bays. We didn't do the confidence/obstacle course because it was covered in snow and ice, although as they ran out of things to do near the end they walked us through it and told us what we would have done on each obstacle.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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That looks like a Horrible snowy day here in Missouri.
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SP5 David Cox
SP5 David Cox
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - That was a typical day for the entire time I was in Basic. I quickly realized that one of the best benefits of my "leadership" position was the reflective vest! It was a solid material - not mesh like so many I see now, and having that to use in the snow kept me considerably dryer on most days. For some reason, when the Army provided our field jackets, they did NOT provide any liners, so the vest also helped with the wind. Lucky me! ;)
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SP5 David Cox Great photo - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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SP5 David Cox
SP5 David Cox
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Also ran across this picture. This is in front of our housing on Ft. Huachuca, Best I can guess, this would have been taken in December, 1980. The housing there has all been renovated/updated, and this unit no longer exists. There is now a playground where this was.
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I found two of my photos, one at Basic Training in San Antonio, Texas and one as an E-3 in 1963. I have more photos, but I haven't found them yet!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Awesome photos Sgt (Join to see) - thanks for sharing Kerry!
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PO1 Donald Hammond
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Looking for mine. I have the physical boot camp grad picture and I know I've scanned it. In the mean time, this is my dad's WWII Army Air Corp picture.
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COL Jill Morgenthaler
COL Jill Morgenthaler
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I'm on the far right. This is a photo of the first women Army ROTC four year scholarship awardees ever - we're at Penn State
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PO1 Donald Hammond
PO1 Donald Hammond
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I'm trying to crop down a picture of Frank Hammond's wife, Ollie. She was in the Army Nurses Corps. It didn't dawn on me until I was reading about the ANC that all nurses were officers in the Army. So I have my grandmother as a veteran also. She and my grandfather met at Bethesda. She was a nurse and he was a patient. All I have tho is a large panorama pic of her nursing class at Camp (now Ft) Meade MD.
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SPC William Szkromiuk
SPC William Szkromiuk
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Some of the BEST Saluting EVER! Seriously!
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PO1 Donald Hammond
PO1 Donald Hammond
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I just re-read this and have to make the correction of not Bethesda but Walter Reed. duh.
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SFC Edward Sneed
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Fort Fix, NJ 1972
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SFC Edward Sneed Great photo - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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Not my first photo in uniform, but my first photo as a commissioned officer. I received my commission three years ago today.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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1LT (Join to see) Thanks for sharing the great photo and thank you for your service to this country!
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Right after graduation with my mother.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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PO2 (Join to see) Great photo - thanks for sharing - I owe you a Vote Up tomorrow morning Mathew!
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Thanksgiving 2007 first day out of AIT
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SFC Familia Gonzalez
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Not my first photo in uniform, but taken during my first year out of twenty..
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SSG (Join to see) Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service Kathryn!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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A1C (Join to see) Thanks for sharing your photo and thank you for your continued service to this country!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs - It's my pleasure sir.
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CSM Richard StCyr
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Don't have my first (Mom's got it) but here's todays, my granddaughter wanted Gramps in uniform for the veterans day program at her school. The kids did a great job.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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CSM Richard StCyr Great photo - thanks for sharing and thank you for your service to this country. Outstanding!
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CSM Richard StCyr
CSM Richard StCyr
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SGT Gregory Lawritson - Thanks Greg, I was blessed to have good Troops, leaders and a supportive family.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Sgt Wayne Wood Great photos - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service. Hooha or HooRa!
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