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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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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SPC (Join to see) Great photo and share! Thanks for your continued service Connor!
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CSM Tony Blair
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Lost all most everything in a house fire, all my pictures or from 1992 to present, smh
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SSG David Fetty
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I was fortunate. The pic was with my mother while I was out of the country. Her house burned but the pic was one of the few things that survived.
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CSM Tony Blair
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But I have this one as a young paratrooper
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TSgt Erica Claus-numsali
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so sorry to here about the fire
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SPC Robert Wray
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Ft. Dix, NJ 5/76
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SPC Robert Wray No picture is posted - let me now if you need some assistance? Thanks
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CSM Patrick Durr
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Basic Training Graduation
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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CSM Patrick Durr Great photo - thanks for sharing Patrick and thanks for your service!
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CSM Patrick Durr
CSM Patrick Durr
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My pleasure...32 years came and went in a flash. Loved every day of it.
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March 1990 at Fort Dix, NJ!
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SPC David Young Thanks for the Photo and think you for your service!
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SGT Rich Rice
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Lol that was a loooooog time ago.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SGT Rich Rice Thanks for sharing the photo Rich and thank you for your service!
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SGM Irvin Lyons Jr
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137lbs soak and wet. 1959!
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SFC Greg Bruorton
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SGM Irvin Lyons Jr - Slick sleeves were great back then! You have me by a year as I enlisted in 1960.
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I had just finished my technical school at Lackland and Camp Bullis, Texas. I was on my way to my first assignment at Büchel Air Base, Germany Fliegerhorst; Security of Special Weapons; Weapon Storage Areas, Protection of Tab V Shelters – U.S. Special Weapons attached to Germany Aircraft Entry Control, Working with Host Nation quick reaction teams.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Sgt Nathan Wilson Great photo - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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SSG Dave Rogers
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The First Photo was taken 1990 at the recruiting station in NYC, the second is in 1994 in Korea on the Signal Mountain with North Korea behind me, the Third taken 1997 in Germany as a SGT for the promotion board, the Last is this year as I was inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame class of 2017 for my work with veterans on Long Island. What changes over the years..
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SSG Dave Rogers Great photos - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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Cpl Vic Eizenga
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I was not even a Marine yet this is week 6 in boot MCRD SD April 1964 I was 17. I was with my Mother, sister and a future Marine my nephew Lance. This was my very first picture in uniform.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Cpl Vic Eizenga Great photo Vic. Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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Deborah Gregson
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Do you all see the incredible history you have preserved here? You should do other themes and post photos to memorialize different areas of military service - just a thought. This is fascinating to scroll through.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Deborah Gregson That was the whole idea - a question that just keeps on giving and that will be memorialize on the Internet as long as its around! Thanks
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SGT Kevin Hughes
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Deborah Gregson,
I agree with you! I have been scrolling and commenting to as many as I can. My wife is loving the little stories and pictures- and what time has done to some of us!
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