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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Not my first. I have lost a lot of my pictures...my dad and I the day that I was commissioned in Jul 74.
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SPC Tracy Bryant
1- Basic Training- Fort Jackson
2-Basic Training Range
3&4 Basic Training Graduation
5- AIT- Fort Lee
6- Basic Training- C Co/239- Fort Jackson
7 Collage made for Veteran's Day
SPC Tracy Bryant -
2-Basic Training Range
3&4 Basic Training Graduation
5- AIT- Fort Lee
6- Basic Training- C Co/239- Fort Jackson
7 Collage made for Veteran's Day
SPC Tracy Bryant -
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SPC Tracy Bryant - Thanks for sharing the photos Tracy and thank you for your service!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SFC Jonathan P. - Thanks for sharing the photo Jonathan & thanks for your service to this country!
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PFC Swartz, 1987, first row, fourth from the left as you look at the picture.
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Sarah Zayas
Is this the Fort Knox everyone uses as analogy to describe something that is impenetrable? Lol
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SFC William Swartz Jr
Sarah Zayas - depends on if you listen to conspiracy theorists or not!! No one other than the people who work there and the Treasury Dept know for sure...at one point it did safeguard the majority of the US gold reserves, and a "public tour" has not been conducted since 1974.
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MAJ Raúl Rovira
Yesterday (30 DEC 2015) was my final out from the Army and last Army working day. Today I look at this picture in a totally different way, with a smile. That was the beginning of a nice long chapter in life called "Army - Be all you can be".
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MAJ Raúl Rovira - Congratulations Raul - sorry for the late response. Going over responses that I've missed since beig so far behind! My apologies!
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MAJ Raúl Rovira
COL Mikel J. Burroughs - Sir, you are good in my book. I will have to make my way to Colorado one of these days.
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SFC Maury Gonzalez
No MSgt Marvin Kinderknecht there were 4 paratroopers with me, took us about 6 hrs to navigate
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SFC Maury Gonzalez
We were in the swamp all day, in a Creek, every time we heard a splash in the water we would freak
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Okay, COL Mikel J. Burroughs, here's what I think is the first photo taken of me in uniform! I was at Fort Jackson, SC for BCT in NOV69, and I was squad leader (acting corporal) of 3rd squad, 1st platoon of D-3-1 (Tank Hill).
Talk about a Sad Sack photo! SGT Robert George SP5 Mark Kuzinski
CPT (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq.
Talk about a Sad Sack photo! SGT Robert George SP5 Mark Kuzinski
CPT (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq.
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LTC Stephen C.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs, the color photo was actually the first photo and was taken with one of those Polaroid SX-70 (instant development) cameras. Here's the official BCT photo taken later. Funny how some BCT classes used the garrison cap like mine, yet other classes used the service cap like LTC Stephen F.'s!
LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq.
LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
LTC Stephen C. Service cover good when rain’g, because it had a cover.. I went out for Liberty
And had service cover and had my
R.C. Rolled in my cover. “Gee Herrst look at the sun, it’s not gonna rain. I had it anyway and we had a cloudburst and closest unlocked door maybe 50 yards..
So I had a raincoat n cover and they didn’t.... They never forgot their’s again !...
And had service cover and had my
R.C. Rolled in my cover. “Gee Herrst look at the sun, it’s not gonna rain. I had it anyway and we had a cloudburst and closest unlocked door maybe 50 yards..
So I had a raincoat n cover and they didn’t.... They never forgot their’s again !...
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04/10/2009
The day I graduated from BMT, which also happens to be my birthday.
The day I graduated from BMT, which also happens to be my birthday.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
This dates back to 2d week of Aug
‘70.. went slick sleeve right up to day before graduation and then put
on A1C .. there were 6 of us .. we took the leadership positions, and of course we were all held to a ‘higher standard’..
‘70.. went slick sleeve right up to day before graduation and then put
on A1C .. there were 6 of us .. we took the leadership positions, and of course we were all held to a ‘higher standard’..
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
SSgt Anya Arisohn
Happy belated B-day to you, SSGT.
Anya Arisohn !.. I believe we had a B-day guy in our Flight in August 1970.. It was humid and trying to rain.. you could see steam rising from the pavement.. and that was 0730 in the morning..
Happy belated B-day to you, SSGT.
Anya Arisohn !.. I believe we had a B-day guy in our Flight in August 1970.. It was humid and trying to rain.. you could see steam rising from the pavement.. and that was 0730 in the morning..
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SN Greg Wright I just remembered how much it ticked off one of my Cadre, he made it a point to tell me that directly.
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A1C Mike Simons
My favorite piece of equipment!! The M-60!!! Went to ABGD training in SP tech school, 1st week was M-60 specialist school.
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Ft Benning has seriously changed. Those buildings behind us are now the OCS barracks. And all TDY stay is at a fancy new hotel on post. Hot water works perfectly!
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SPC Woody Bullard
CPT (Join to see) - You are not joking, Fort Benning sure has changed since my eight weeks there in 1968. But then I was going through BCT at Harmony Church, D-8-2, "Bulldogs". I don't believe I saw the best side of Fort Benning as a boot trainee. We lived in old world war II wood barracks and had to red wax that floor with the buffer every day.
December was very cold that year and that barracks was like a refrigerator. The morning we graduated and marched by the reviewing stand the uniform was class A winter dress greens only, no overcoat or gloves. I was glad to get out of that place and on to MP AIT at Fort Gordon where they had the new Brems barracks that did have heat.
December was very cold that year and that barracks was like a refrigerator. The morning we graduated and marched by the reviewing stand the uniform was class A winter dress greens only, no overcoat or gloves. I was glad to get out of that place and on to MP AIT at Fort Gordon where they had the new Brems barracks that did have heat.
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CPL John C. Lynch
CPT (Join to see) - I know--went for my son's Commissioning Ceremony and didn't recognize the place (Jump School 1980). Towers still there but no longer used. Was showing the family where we did training and describing the different training "Stations" from a distance when a Black Hat came along and gave us permission to enter the Training Area so I could explain it better.
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