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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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for the photos beginning and end of service LTC Russ Smith Thanks for your service to this country!
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MCRD San Diego 1977.
There are just a few of us who switched. I switched to the Air Force thinking it would be a bit -- easier, perhaps -- and it was just different. Neither one was better or worse than the other, they were just different.
It didn't help that the Air Force gave me orders straight to Moody AFB and told me to "go to work". No orientation, nothing., Learning those odd Air Force stripes during OJT was tough.
And the entire attitude was different. First time I got in trouble in the Air Force was for working too long. It sure wasn't the last time I got in trouble, that's for sure.
There are just a few of us who switched. I switched to the Air Force thinking it would be a bit -- easier, perhaps -- and it was just different. Neither one was better or worse than the other, they were just different.
It didn't help that the Air Force gave me orders straight to Moody AFB and told me to "go to work". No orientation, nothing., Learning those odd Air Force stripes during OJT was tough.
And the entire attitude was different. First time I got in trouble in the Air Force was for working too long. It sure wasn't the last time I got in trouble, that's for sure.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
TSgt (Join to see) Thanks for the Great photo and information - thanks for your service. Have a great evening Earl!
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TSgt Erica Claus-numsali
*giggles at your comment* Yes, my dad told me going in the air force was smarter because he said it was the easiest branch (I originally wanted to go into the navy like my dad). I just liked the morale support overall, compared to what I saw and heard from my friends that enlisted in the other branches.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
How about a current one or one of your last in the military SPC Tony Means I don't make judgments Tony!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing the great photos of your entire family CPO (Join to see) Thank you for all the service your family has provided to this nation Robert!
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SSG Dale London
I have yet to meet anyone who says they like their own basic training photo at first glance. Give it 30 years and you'll think "was I ever really that steely-eyed, firm-jawed soldier? Hell, yes I was! Huah!"
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Basic Training, Ft Jackson, SC, November 1980. -- Lord but I was young then!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Great photo SSG Dale London Thanks for sharing it and thank you for your service to this country Dale!
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