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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SFC Familia Gonzalez
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Aco 2/508 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, 1979. Not my first, but one of my first...
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SSG Don Maggart
SSG Don Maggart
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MMMM Gamma Goat exhaust you guys were loading ammo that day Not???
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SFC Familia Gonzalez Great photo - thanks for sharing and thank you for your service!
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MSG Mechanic 2nd
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1983 honor recruit, usn, with my mom
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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MSG (Join to see) Great photo of you and your mother - thanks for sharing!
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1st Lt Marilina Nieves
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1st Lt Marilina Nieves
1st Lt Marilina Nieves
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Here I am the 1st time around I was enlisted
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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1st Lt Marilina Nieves - Thanks for sharing Marilina & thank you for your service!
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PO3 Lee Oliver
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Fire Watch at Great Lakes Boot Camp - 1962. Not quite that thin today.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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PO3 Lee Oliver Great photo - thanks for sharing!
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MAJ Alvin B.
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I am traveling and do not have access to the BCT photo from May 1975.
This is the earliest photo I have available. The photo was taken just before my 22nd birthday in December 1978.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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MAJ Alvin B. Great photo and thanks for sharing!
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MAJ Alvin B.
MAJ Alvin B.
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Truth in advertising - a photo from February 2015
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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MAJ Alvin B. - Getting younger everyday!
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SGM Mikel Dawson
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Basic Training, FT. Knox, 1983, B/13/4
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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SGM Mikel Dawson Hey thanks for sharing - anybody with a first name like that has to be a great warrior! Thanks again Sergeant Major!
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Sgt Spencer Sikder
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Sometime in the fall of 1976
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Sgt Spencer Sikder Great photo - thanks for sharing
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Sgt Jay Jones
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Marine Corps Boot Camp photo summer 1969.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Sgt Jay Jones great photo - thanks for sharing
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PO3 Mitchell Haynie
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That's me on arm swabbing duty. That character smiling won't be so cheery in a minute after he gets about 10 shots all at once! This of course was NTC San Diego boot camp, November of 79.
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PO3 Mitchell Haynie
PO3 Mitchell Haynie
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No doubt, I saw the results of guys who flenched or jerked and it actualy cut them with the air pressure! "Relax and don't move" was the constant montra in the room.
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SSG Warren Hall
SSG Warren Hall
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Yep, Got an entire series just before deployment to ODS. Had a few guys who flinched, cut some of them pretty good.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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PO3 Mitchell Haynie Great photo - I remember the cattle line and multiple shots at Fort Leanord Wood, MO too! Thanks for your service Mitchell!
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SPC William Szkromiuk
SPC William Szkromiuk
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Fort Jackson a bazillion degrees. I was watching the line in front of me and wondering why some people were falling down left and right. Then the guy right in front of freaked out! The DI had to take him aside and have a talk. I made it ok.
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CW5 Sam R. Baker
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PVT Baker was in Camp Zama Japan in this one, I think I have a basic training one somewhere, but have to find it!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Great photo CW5 Sam R. Baker Thanks for sharing with the RP Group!
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MSgt Mike Brown; MBTI-CP;  MA, Ph.D.
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MSgt Mike Brown; MBTI-CP;  MA, Ph.D.
MSgt Mike Brown; MBTI-CP; MA, Ph.D.
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Here you go Colonel -- fantastic photos from all veterans!!!
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