Posted on Jun 13, 2015
Do you have your LAST photograph in Uniform? Retirement or End of Service?
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Let's have some great picture memorabilia!
I'm really going out on a limb here with this one. There were some really great photos of RP Members in their very first uniform picture. Thanks for sharing everyone who participated - that is still going by the way!
Picture of my Dad (PFC Don Burroughs, Korean War Veteran)
Now let's get some pictures of the last days in uniform posted!
I'm really going out on a limb here with this one. There were some really great photos of RP Members in their very first uniform picture. Thanks for sharing everyone who participated - that is still going by the way!
Picture of my Dad (PFC Don Burroughs, Korean War Veteran)
Now let's get some pictures of the last days in uniform posted!
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My last photo in uniform, early January 1989. I was attached to Naval Transient Personnel Unit at Naval Base, Charleston, South Carolina and had just been medically retired from the Navy. Within three months, I will have moved to England and started my new life with my English wife. The photo is a bit of an in-joke, between my wife and I. Our dog - for some strange reason - was addicted to my white "dixie cup" hats. She didn't touch my ball caps or any other stuff. Just the white hats. And she'd always run and hide it. But right before I'm ready to head to work! So now that I was out, I gave her my "dog dishes" (slang for the white hats). For you trivia buffs, I'm wearing the old Working Blue uniform, nicknamed the "Johnny Cash" (the female variant was referred to as the "Eva Braun").
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PO3 Donald Murphy These are great pictures - very nice - thanks for sharing and for your service once again!
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These pics were taken at Fort Hood, Texas at my retirement ceremony in November 2016. My last duty station was at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MSG Antwine Marshall What a wonderful photo with your sone Antwine! Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing your last photo in uniform with your smiling son MSG Antwine Marshall and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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CMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw
Thank You So Very Much!!! I really appreciate it!!! Thank you for your Service and Sacrifice Also!!!
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing some great photos in uniform CMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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MAJ Norm Michaels
Looking good Master Chief. Any more years and you would have been running about of sleeve.
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I think this one was my last official photo about a couple of months before I retired. Major Gary Ardo, Commander 3569th Recruiting Squadron presenting me with a Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Service during Desert Storm deployment with the 511th Tactical Fighter Squadron (USAFE) attached to the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing (Provisional) (CENTAF) at King Fahd International Airport, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing your last photo MSgt Richard Rountree and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
TSgt (Join to see) Great photo - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing your last photo in uniform TSgt (Join to see) and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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Here I am in 1956 as a 17 year old PVT and at 78, I am still not retired and am serving as a Bugler with the USAF Honor Guard for Maine - 101st Refueling Wing, Bangor Air Base
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1LT Peter Duston
PS: I did have a wonderful retirement ceremony at West Point at age 60 with the Commandant, Gen Abizaid doing the honors.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
1LT Peter Duston - Great photos Peter! Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
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1LT Peter Duston
Check this one out. I recently was promoted to Polkovnik (COL - retired) of former Soviet Army by one of my Eagle Scouts who did a special role playing presentation at his university on the Cold War. While an Army Reservist during the 80's and 90's, I role played Soviet/Russian NCO's and officers at Infantry Basic in Ft. Benning and Ft. Campbell for "Threat" Orientation. As a Russian linguist and MI branch soldier, I have the accent and script down pretty well. At Husson University, my young friend, dressed as a Russian CPT and I presented the Soviet view of major Cold War events - Sputnik, Fulda Gap Plan, Berlin Wall, etc. We were a "hit" and my young friend not only got an A+++ but we are being asked to return for encore performances. The uniforms and decorations (that my young friend procured) perfectly match the biographies that he had prepared. As the Commander of his JROTC, I can see that he could have a great career in the intelligence business.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing some great photos in uniform 1LT Peter Duston and for your years of service to this nation in uniform. добрый день
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Yes.... Thanks for asking COL Mikel J. Burroughs. It was fun looking back through these photos, and hard to believe it has been 4 years. I actually I still wear a uniform, but this was from my retirement.... After 32 years, 11 months, and 20 days... It was over. This is me walking away from the mic and trying to keep it together, realize it was actually over. Then me and my best fiends. Finally me and my wife of 33 years, and now LTG David Quantock; my favorite boss ever.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing some great photos in uniform COL Charles Williams and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
TSgt David Blakley Great photo - thanks for sharing and thanks for your service to this country!
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LTC Stephen F.
Thanks for sharing your last photo TSgt David Blakley and for your years of service to this nation in uniform.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs: I had to leave the Army; because of my "disability".
So consequently I don't have the photos of me- before, during or after.
In Anger, I threw all of my Army-for lack of a better word-stuff-down at the end of some hallway.
I was so sad that I was let go; I went to the Presidio Army Base- every day-for about a year.
P.S. Mikel, here is a photograph of my face; however, I am not in my uniform.
Thanks for ALL you do, Mikel, to help us veterans!
Best Regards, Margaret
So consequently I don't have the photos of me- before, during or after.
In Anger, I threw all of my Army-for lack of a better word-stuff-down at the end of some hallway.
I was so sad that I was let go; I went to the Presidio Army Base- every day-for about a year.
P.S. Mikel, here is a photograph of my face; however, I am not in my uniform.
Thanks for ALL you do, Mikel, to help us veterans!
Best Regards, Margaret
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MSG (Join to see)
Still waiting for my last day. Might have a photo from prior to my 15 year break in service somewhere....
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PO3 Donald Murphy
That happened to me as well. I was bum-rushed out on disability and was bitter as I was wanting to make a 20 year career of it. I burned one of my uniforms in anger.
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1LT Peter Duston
Sorry to hear but thank you for the time that you did serve. Now you can still serve as a veteran visiting the veterans in nursing homes, sponsoring a wreath with Wreaths Across America, helping school children and scouts place Flags on graves, attending memorial programs like Memorial Day or 9/11 Commemoration or most importantly volunteering with a local organization raising awareness of suicide or PTSD, homeless veterans or incarcerated veterans. Your service now can be even more meaningful...ATTEN-HUT!!!
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