My great grandfather got sniped while on his pt boat during a patrol in the Pacific. My grandfather was a Korean and Vietnam War veteran.
I don't know much about my family history any further than a generation or so, but my Uncle was in the Royal Navy and did a few tours of Ireland on peacekeeping. I also vaguely remember someone mentioning my great grandfather having something to do with the transition from the Royal Flying Corps to the fully fledged RAF. Pretty cool I guess.
Well, both my grandfather and grandmother on father's side were high ranking officials in Yugoslav Communist Party.
My great grandfather was high ranked officer of king's army of Serbia in WW1, he was one of the officers in battle of Kolubara [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kolubara[/url] .
Great uncle was a Captain in WW1, stormed a town with just twenty or so men while severely outnumbered, and took it. He evaded German machine gun fire three times and even ran into the open to grab a wounded soldier. Awarded the Medal of Honor for it.
Grandpa was a bomber in Vietnam, saved a shit ton of green berets towards the end of the war when the VC stormed their base, got awarded the silver star. When he was doing a bombing run some AA turrets shot the shit outta his wings to the point where they were on fire and he still landed just fine...Oh yeah and a bullet went through his seat and missed his 'nads by about 2 inches.
A few things I remember from my grandfather's stories.
My grandfather was a soviet tank driver. He fought in many battles and once (or more) had his crew killed with the tank destroyed during a battle, being the only one to survive. He fought in the siege of Berlin. He is still alive.
My grandfather was in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Battle of Britain.
My grandfather was in World War 2, the Korean War, and Vietnam. I believe he was intelligence in all 3, and I don't know where he was stationed (and since he is dead I can't ask him).
My father served two tours of Vietnam. He received a Purple Heart for being stabbed in the knee by a Viet Cong who, according to him, "got his ass handed to him."
My grandfather on my father's side fought in the Korean War. Don't know what his position was. He died of liver failure before I was born.
My other grandfather fought in WW2, in Europe if I am not mistaken. He also died of liver failure before I was born.
Grandpa (Dad's Dad) was in the Coast Guard (WWII, never saw Action)
Grandpa (Mom's Dad) was in the Army (WWII, never saw Action)
Uncle (Dad's Brother) was in the Airforce (60's-70's, helped with the SR-71 Project, never saw Action)
Dad was in the Navy (60's-70's, Snapped photos of Russian Subs and Ships)
My Great Grand-Uncle was a Staff Sergeant in the First Infantry Division. He had a M1 Carbine and a clunk of a radio he had to haul while he was on one of the first boats to land on Omaha Beach. He never got specific as to what sector with in Omaha, but he got in land. I never knew how far he got in after D-Day, he had his right ring finger blown off.
He managed to recover his wedding ring though.
My other Great Grand-Uncle was a recon pilot in the Pacific Theater during WW2, he flew planes over the Aleutian Islands. He died of a heart attack a few years ago.
My family has been in the US since we came from Ireland in the 1820s.
I am related to mountain man Jim Bridger, one of the most famous figures of the old west.
Except thats not military history.
I had family on both sides of the Civil War. My great-grandpappy was a soldier in the Confederacy.
My great uncle is the very famous Uncle Billy.
This guy.
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Sometime before or after the civil war my Irish family decided to leave back to Ireland.
Well, couple years later... my great-grandfather is the person responsible for The Easter Rising.
Thomas Clarke.
Then somebody came back to America and had some children, one of which was a tank commander, who died in the battle of the bulge.
Latest military addition is my Uncle, who was in vietnam.
My grandpa died in World War 2. He fell off a guard tower in Aushwitz :downs:.
In all seriousness, my mom's uncle's dad and his brother fought in World War II and, from what I've gathered, they took personal items from each German they killed and kept them ever since.
My granddad served in WW2 and got a boatload of medals for it, I've forgotten what for though (I think he was part of the D-Day beach landing, not sure though). I'll follow it up tomorrow and see what I can find out.
OP, potential thread for a good read if you combine everyone's stories.
My grandfather was a fighter pilot in the Pacific during WW2. We have pictures of him somewhere standing next to his F4U Corsair and taking off of a carrier. He died before I was born so I never talked to him and I don't know that much about him.
My brother is a Master at Arms in the US Navy. During his service he's been to Virginia, Kuwait, Qatar, Diego Garcia and now he's living in Hawaii.
As for myself, I plan on joining the Marine Corps someday after I finish college.
My dad was in the USAF during the Persian Gulf. He did work relating to communications (line maintenance, installation, etc.). He got out after 16 years of service due to fibromyalgia.
Now, my brother is in the USAF, doing maintenance work on the KC-135's, mostly the engines. He is currently stationed at Mildenhall.
I'm not too sure about the rest, but one of my uncles was discharged from the Navy and one of my great-somethings was an MP.
My grandfather was a Marine who aided in the hunt for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_C%C3%A9sar_Sandino"]Augusto Cesar Sandino[/URL], my father was in the Navy and launched off planes to bomb Vietnam, my eldest brother is in the Marines at the moment as an embassy guard stationed in Angola.
My family doesn't exactly have the cleanest history...
In WW1 I had a great uncle who served as an officer for British Trench Raiders.
In WW2... Well here comes the nice uncleanest of the Dura family.
I had a great uncle named Ernest Dura... I won't get into details, but he was a Concentration Camp dog handler. You can search his name, because he was tried, and hanged during Numberg.
My two great Granddads, Joseph P. Dura(named after), and Thaddeus A. Dura both serverd during WW2 on the American side.
I believe Thaddeus was a Merchant Marine, but I never found out what Joseph did, but what is known is that somewhere in early 45' he became a PoW, and after the war he drinked himself to death do to the horrors he had witnessed.
During Vietnam my Grandpa Earl Poage was apart of the airforce, and I was the only person he told war stories too(he tried to tell me too stay away from joining the military). One story he told me I feel proud of. During a patrol outside of his airbase the jeep he was in got shot at by small arms fire, and the driver slinged over to the right of the road, and ended up flipping the jeep. My Grandpa Earl with a broken back from the crash, pulled the driver out from under the jeep while it was burning from small arms fire, and pulled him into another jeep. My mom remebers him recieving a medal, but we never figured out what medal it was(it wasn't a purple heart)... It had to be something special though. When he died(fairly recently) he got a twenty man gun salute, and was given honors by the present commanders of the Airforce unit.
My dad served in the Airforce till he was 22, and he got out only two weeks before the Gulf War kicked off. His Airforce Unit (Engineer Corp) was the first guys to land during the invasion, and was in forward bases helping the repair of helicopters.
My dads cousin who I know little about is an instructor at Fort Benning and Fort Darby. Was a green beret during the Gulf Conflicts. He got shot twice. Best I got.
Every male in my family has been in the military. The only one I know a lot about is my grandfather who's actually in a book called "The Shake and Bake Sergeant". He was a Platoon Sergeant in Nam and while they were ambushed he was shot giving orders, so he called in a medical helicopter to get him and the other wounded. While dragging people to the helicopter, an rpg went off about 5 feet away from him and almost blew his leg off, the guy he was dragging turned into soup. He has a bit of ptsd, and he lets you poke the shrapnel thats still in his leg and back. He has a purple heart, and a bronze and silver star, plus a crap load of unit citations and crap like that.
My great-grandmothers father owned a steel mill in the Netherlands when the Germans invaded.
He was forced to manufacture weaponry for the Germans.
A far cry from my great grandfather who was part of the Dutch resistance, he had to do alot of hiding. Anne Frank style.
My parents were in the Air Force (U.S.) and I was born on Travis AFB outside of Sacramento, California. They didn't do anything exciting, just worked on medical stuff. My great grandpa was a Seebee and was stationed in Alaska during WWII. He saw a Japanese ship once but I don't think they engaged.
And my grandpa was in the National Guard in the 60s and he beat up some hippies in New Jersey during a protest :v:
My uncle was in Vietnam, the only story I've heard from him was when he was stuck in the jungle alone and he had to play dead for three days so that he wouldn't be discovered. Mind you he wasn't just sitting there in the middle of the place alone, he was with a group who had actually been killed.
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Huh apparently my mom's dad was in the army in the 60s. He died in 1973 after being poisoned from a broken heater vent.
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I think he was born on February 2nd, too.
I'm Asian and prior to WW2, my grandfather (dad's side) was a Chinese soldier defending the Manchuria region, and my other granddad (mom's side) was a Japanese imperial soldier invading China.
Let's see. My grandfather worked for the Army (was also enlisted at one time), and he was selected with seven other people to develop, at the time, top secret weapons systems.
Those two weapons systems today: The LAV turret, and the camera on AC-130 gunships.
One cousin died in Vietnam, another served as a Marine in Baghdad and Fallujah, and another one just joined the Navy.
I have an uncle who was in the Coast Guard for 30 years.
Oh, my dad (who left before I was born) has a pretty extensive history:
[quote]Bill has over 30 years in the public and private sector Law Enforcement, Security, and Emergency Response fields, starting his career in Florida in 1980 as a corrections officer and 9-1-1 operator. Bill is a veteran of the US Army where he served for three years as an MP at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and is a graduate of the urban sniper/counter sniper course, US Army Air Assault school, Special Operations (SORT) school and the US Army Special Response Team school where he and his team took first place as the overall SRT.
Bill is a former DHS certified WMD instructor for the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) located in Anniston, Alabama where he taught the IED Awareness class for the Technical Emergency Response Team (TERT) training, the Law Enforcement Protective Actions and Law Enforcement Protective Measures (LERA and LEPM) classes as well as a number of others.
Bills last assignment was as a primary instructor for the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Awareness program for the Critical National Infrastructure Authority Security & Asset Protection Program in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In addition to the IED class Bill provided training in police/security courses to include defensive tactics, desert motor vehicle operation, Quick Reaction Force and Active Shooter response procedures, and firearms familiarization and qualification.
He is a current member of International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Assoc. (ILEETA), a NRA Certified Pistol Instructor, a graduate and instructor at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute. He has experience in various types of military and civilian firearms, firearms training and instruction, and high risk tactical operations
Bill has also taught around the country for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) delivering classes in Special Interest Terrorism and Improvised Explosive Device construction and identification. He is also a basic recruit instructor for the Northeast Alabama Regional Police Academy.[/quote]
And as for me, I'm joining the Air Force to become a TACP/JTAC.
Dad in Afghanistan as adviser to Afghanistan Customs. US Customs/Homeland Security chief before that, Air Force service before that.
Brother Served in Iraq. (heading to South Korea soon)
Another Brother was Stationed in Japan.
Grandpa on my dad's side was a B-17 crew member
Grandpa on my mothers side was in the Marines, stationed in pacific.
Not sure about my great grand fathers but I think they served in WWI either as Americans or Germans.
Uncle served in NAM
There are also tons of other family members in the Air Force.
My grandfather never served but was a radioman in the Army during World War II.
My uncle served in the Navy sometime during the Korean War and the Vietnam war.
Let's see... From as far back as I can trace
From my Granddad's family:
Jefferson Davis, served in the Mexican-American War and was president of the Confederate States during America's Civil War.
Great grandfathers:
One worked as an engineer in the German army through World War I to World War II, fought on both fronts in World War II, died of lung cancer in 1969.
Other worked in the U.S Navy on the Pacific front. Died three years ago.
Grandfathers:
My dad's served in U.S Air Force World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam, flew fighters in World War II and Korean, cargo in 'Nam.
Mom's served in the Air Force I believe served in Vietnam got stationed in the Pacific later and went MIA.
Dad signed up for the U.S Army, got his back screwed up in training and they wouldn't give him enough time for it to heal. Had he actually got back he found out he would've served in the Gulf War.
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My great uncle is the very famous Uncle Billy.
This guy.
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I respect your Great Uncle. Sherman was one of the best Generals in American history.
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