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Don't quite remember mine but I think they were something like Presidio of San Francisco, Vicenza, Italy and Spain or Japan. After Jump School, I received my orders to Ft Bragg ... So very not like any of my choices.
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After my time with 6th Fleet/Naval Forces Europe and Africa in Italy was up, I put in for
1-funeral honors in Hawaii
2-US Coast Guard 1st District
3-Naval Forces Korea
4-Mobile Surgical Unit (Navy) 8
5-5th Fleet/Naval Forces Central Command
6-Destroyer Squadron 21, attached to 4th Fleet
7-funeral honors Naval Region Northwest
I was offered #2 and #5, chose #2 and before I even got to D1 got deployed to Antarctica for Operation DEEP FREEZE 2017. But I’ve been enjoying D1!
Would love to go to SUBRON6 or a NATO ACT unit. One day maybe.
1-funeral honors in Hawaii
2-US Coast Guard 1st District
3-Naval Forces Korea
4-Mobile Surgical Unit (Navy) 8
5-5th Fleet/Naval Forces Central Command
6-Destroyer Squadron 21, attached to 4th Fleet
7-funeral honors Naval Region Northwest
I was offered #2 and #5, chose #2 and before I even got to D1 got deployed to Antarctica for Operation DEEP FREEZE 2017. But I’ve been enjoying D1!
Would love to go to SUBRON6 or a NATO ACT unit. One day maybe.
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A NTDS cruiser out of Pearl Harbor or a NTDS cruiser out of Charleston SC. My orders was to a NTDS cruiser (USS Biddle DLG/CG) with a home-port in Norfolk. At least I was able to get the platform I wanted.
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CDR Terry Boles
MSG Michael Davis
Fair enough...it's Naval Tactical Data System, computerized radar systems that during the day was cutting edge technology found within Combat Information Center CIC. I suppose the precursor of what one sees these days aboard ship.
Fair enough...it's Naval Tactical Data System, computerized radar systems that during the day was cutting edge technology found within Combat Information Center CIC. I suppose the precursor of what one sees these days aboard ship.
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LOL sorry, but I never got choices so specific. My "dream sheet" consisted of East Coast, West Coast, Overseas. Well I'm from the east coast, so I opted to stay on this half of the Country.
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Didn't know the Army called their assignment preference form a 'dream sheet' too. The USAF was using that term when I enlisted in 1972...don't know how far back from there it's been in use. I had 7 duty stations during my 20 years of service. I always got my first choice, or very close to my first choice of assignments. I had learned how to ski at Garmisch on the Zugspitz while at my first assignment, Spangdahlem AB, in Germany. The rest of my career I would volunteer for cold weather assignments near major ski areas. That worked for me. My first dream sheet I asked for a small radar site in St Albans VT. I was assigned, in 1974, to Plattsburgh AFB NY instead...almost directly across Lake Champlain from St Albans. The base had bought several season passes to nearby Whiteface Mountain Ski Area in Lake Placid NY. We could rent the passes for $3 a day!! Other areas close by were Jay Peak VT, Stowe VT, Smuggler's Notch VT, and many others. My next assignment, in 1976, was my first choice of Fresno CA. The ski areas near there were China Peak and Mammoth Mountain in addition to the Lake Tahoe areas. In 1979, I got another first choice: F.E. Warren AFB WY. The Colorado front range ski areas (Eldora mostly) and the Dillon County areas (Arapaho Basin, Keystone, Copper Mountain, and Breckenridge) in addition to Jackson Hole WY were my winter playgrounds. In 1981 I had volunteered to go back to Germany and was selected to go to Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart assigned to the Hq VII Corps Air Liaison Officer (ALO). I skied the Allgau areas, Steibis, Austria, Switzerland, and Garmisch. I left Stuttgart in 1987 bound for RAF Alconbury UK...no skiing there but getting to the European ski areas wasn't impossible. For my last assignment, I told my assignment guy at Randolph that I was tired of cold weather and I'd like to go anywhere warm. He sent me to Los Angeles CA in 1991...best of both worlds...Big Bear ski area was close by and Mammoth Mountain was easy to get to also. The take-away from my experiences is volunteer for unpopular (cold weather) assignments and don't ask for an assignment where your current rank and skill (AFSC, MOS, etc) is not needed. Worked for me.
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I always had one on file but never used it because I called my detailer for orders. I had broken service in 1970 when I reenlisted I was sent to the Philly Naval Station for orders (No dream sheet) anyways my orders came in for Naval Facticity Cape Hatteras, NC. Great, great, great duty..................
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Have No idea what one is...
But i did 2 years in Vicenza with the 509th...
5 1/2 years at Ft Bragg as an instructor... and
5 years in Okinawa Japan with 1/1SFG. and
6 1/2 years at Ft lewis Wa...
... awarded German... Brit... Thai... Phil and Japanese Jump wings... and senior US wings
But i did 2 years in Vicenza with the 509th...
5 1/2 years at Ft Bragg as an instructor... and
5 years in Okinawa Japan with 1/1SFG. and
6 1/2 years at Ft lewis Wa...
... awarded German... Brit... Thai... Phil and Japanese Jump wings... and senior US wings
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MSG (Join to see) I am not sure what it was called back then. When I left Vietnam, I was told to specify three possible duty stations. I put down MCRD San Diego, Camp Pendleton, and Naval Weapons Station, Pittsburg, Ca. They sent me to MCB 29 Palms, which is a terrible place to be stationed.
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GySgt Stephen Anderson - Wow. I have never heard of that trick. Sgt Major's are not known to have a sense of humor.
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