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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PVT Stephanie McGirr
Basic Training, Fort Jackson, SC, c. 1991
"Rawwrrrrr!!! Git some!! Wait, where is my lipstick?" :)
Basic Training, Fort Jackson, SC, c. 1991
"Rawwrrrrr!!! Git some!! Wait, where is my lipstick?" :)
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SFC Greg Bruorton
CMSgt (Join to see) - And we good ole' boys won't let you forget either.
That's a great photogenic picture!
That's a great photogenic picture!
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1LT Peter Duston
1991 Fort Jackson, I was NCOIC of our summer BRM mission - 90 day tour. Maybe we taught you how to shoot?
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My commissioning on May 4, 1985. VP George Bush was our commencement speaker. After receiving our diplomas, the newly commissioned officers went back stage and took our gowns off. We came back out and VP Bush presented us with our commissioning certificates. A couple of months later, I received this photograph while at IOBC in Fort Benning.
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SPC Nancy Greene
OUTSTANDING Photo and post SGM David W. Carr! West Point Grad! Very Impressive! I have been to West Point twice: first was a fifth grade field trip in 1965, and second was to show my daughter the beautiful Campus in 2003! SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT
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SPC Nancy Greene
Wish I had attended West Point, but the world was in a ‘Whole Other Place’ in 1974!CPT Aaron Kletzing
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SGT Jim Hill 1988 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Military Intelligence Company, Long Range Reconnaissance.
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SPC Nancy Greene
My BDU’S were so Highly starched and pressed they could stand up by themselves; however I Was TRADOC AG Corps at Ft McClellan and we HAD to be Totally Squared Away!SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SPC Nancy Greene
Mine were not short collar as I remember using a quarter to ensure my rank was in the EXACT location in accordance to the reg!MSG Richard Medina
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My boot camp picture. I made mom a Christmas gift plate of it. She still has it. It's the only copy of this still around. My profile picture was taken about 6 years later.
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SPC Nancy Greene
You have that FEARLESS look in your eyes and your photo is OUTSTANDING SSG Eddie Royal!SSG Eddye Royal
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LIBERTY CALL, LIBERTY CALL, Xmas 1963. My Uncle in the Navy brought me a set of "Cracker Jacks". Technically I wasn't in the Navy, yet. I enlisted in 1979.
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SPC Nancy Greene
I remember being home on leave between AIT and first Permanent Party assignment to Ft McClellan. One of the first things was to go to FAYETTEVILLE and buy Jump Boots and the ‘old’ Army greens. We were authorized to wear them in 1984; however during my ‘stay’ at Ft McClellan, I was TRADOC and worked in Class B’s in an office! 0730-1630 and I wore a skirt, short-sleeved shirt and three inch black patent leather heels! Best duty Station ever!SPC Ken Harper
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SPC Nancy Greene
Totally Agree! Should have gone to sleep hours ago, but this is too much fun! LOLJenn Moynihan
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I'm the tall guy in the beret with the spot on it, 1979. I didn't want to put on the steel pot until I had to. This is after jump school, but I can't find my Jump school photo.
The other guys in the photo are the SF A team I was assigned to. The older guys were Vietnam veterans, with A team time in the jungles of VN. They had some real scary stories. The younger guys, like me, looked up to them in aw.
The other guys in the photo are the SF A team I was assigned to. The older guys were Vietnam veterans, with A team time in the jungles of VN. They had some real scary stories. The younger guys, like me, looked up to them in aw.
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Jump School circa 1982. These were likely taken within a day or two of each other. The first is the is the picture we took at a studio trailer or something in a fake "jump door". The second one is with my mom as we were prepping for our graduation jump. I'm certain she wasn't all that happy about me jumping out of airplanes, or jumping on a bus to Ft Bragg later that evening.
It looks like that at some point I lost the original 765 tape on my helmet and had to improvise.
It looks like that at some point I lost the original 765 tape on my helmet and had to improvise.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
COL Jean (John) F. B. When at Langley AFB, VA. (Now Eustis- Langley). We were issued Rapid Deployment logo patches for our Field Jacket and utility uniforms. When I retired I kept the one on my Field jacket. The other 3 I had to turn in. Another fellow Staff who retired gave me his “keeper” patch.. I put mine on a
WW II bomber style leather jacket
That I had. We had a retired CSM
That told me it had to come off.. I informed him I’m AF, he’s mess’g With the wrong service... He didn’t take kindly my retort... I was think’g
He read s’thing somewhere.. about being restricted patches or s’thing..
So I just stayed away from him when at the V.F.W. Post.. He told me they prob’ly let me keep it but in a photo album somewhere at home.. I had the jacket on and thought sure he was still in California visiting family.. He
Came back early and at the Post
When I was there.. He took out his
Little knife and I asked what was he doing and he responded saying “you didn’t take it off, looks like I’ll have to’”. I got away from him.. Our Quartermaster told him to lay off.. He didn’t take kindly to that..
I told him nice as I could thathe’s Retired now.. just sit back and enjoy it instead of making e’body’s life a
Living heck..over a deployment patch ... I don’t have any pertinent
Info anymore anyway which would of been ration strength reports at the most... and those change regularly... so good luck with that!
WW II bomber style leather jacket
That I had. We had a retired CSM
That told me it had to come off.. I informed him I’m AF, he’s mess’g With the wrong service... He didn’t take kindly my retort... I was think’g
He read s’thing somewhere.. about being restricted patches or s’thing..
So I just stayed away from him when at the V.F.W. Post.. He told me they prob’ly let me keep it but in a photo album somewhere at home.. I had the jacket on and thought sure he was still in California visiting family.. He
Came back early and at the Post
When I was there.. He took out his
Little knife and I asked what was he doing and he responded saying “you didn’t take it off, looks like I’ll have to’”. I got away from him.. Our Quartermaster told him to lay off.. He didn’t take kindly to that..
I told him nice as I could thathe’s Retired now.. just sit back and enjoy it instead of making e’body’s life a
Living heck..over a deployment patch ... I don’t have any pertinent
Info anymore anyway which would of been ration strength reports at the most... and those change regularly... so good luck with that!
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
SPC John Parmenter - It was 1972... "High and Tight" was not the thing back then, especially for officers.
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