How Many Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines.......

[comiso90]

Ciao,

I was stationed at Comiso for 2 years 1990 - 91. We had Cruise missiles.... fortunately, I never saw any take off, and if they did, they wouldn't come back!

Have you been to Taormina? I had a great time in Sicilia!

My family is from Italy too. Abruzzo area.

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[lesofprimus]

I bounced around Sicily as well in my time in the Navy... Great place, wonderful people...

 

[comiso90]

I bounced around Sicily as well in my time in the Navy... Great place, wonderful people...

yes... good scuba diving, food.

I voluntarily extended for an extra year. Tons of history....

Sicily is widely disparaged by other Italians (and Europeans) as being filled with backwards hicks and mafia.

I loved it there and hope to visit again... maybe I'm a backward, mafioso hick at heart!

Never call an Sicilian a Italian and Never call an Italian a Sicilian or you will get the CORNUTO!

VIVA SICILIA!

 

[Black Magic]

Glad to meet you mates!!

I spent some time in Sicily too during the past.
I've been in Taormina, enjoyed there great time as well.

@>comiso90 one of my great grandfathers was from Abruzzo; Lucoli, near L'Aquila.

Never call an Sicilian a Italian and Never call an Italian a Sicilian of you will get the CORNUTO!
VIVA SICILIA!

definitely!!
Anyway...Viva Sicilia!!

 

[comiso90]

Glad to meet you mates!!

@>comiso90 one of my great grandfathers was from Abruzzo; Lucoli, near L'Aquila.

Hey Paisan!

My grandfather was from Alvito, Abruzzo near L'Aquila.

Family names:

Brusca, DeMartino, Defrancis, Deslover

 

[Black Magic]

Bloody little world!!!

Here: Ratini, Cusella, Bianchi, Ranaldi

 

[lesofprimus]

LOL, small world indeed... I really enjoyed the diving in Sicily, as well as Italian waters... I had a blast in Trieste especially...

 

[Black Magic]

I've spearfished in Trieste.
Love the atmosphere in the city also.

Very happy to have found something in common so quickly...
apart from the WWII kytes of course.

 

[comiso90]

Stefano... I think your grandfather owed my grandfather $1000 dollars.. It's ok for you to pay me!

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I would love to go back...

Unfortunately i only dove Sicily ... Lipari, Stromboli in the north and all over the south.

I partied on Malta... VERY cool too. I drove from Sicily to Northern Europe twice. I went through Trieste on my way to Yugoslavia

BTW, My father was in operation Husky.... He fought on the grounds I chased skirt, ate gellata and Scuba dove.

 

[Black Magic]

During the WWII my grandfathers fought in Army and Navy.
One as master at arm in the Italian Army during the campain in Russia, they were defeated by Russians and he came back to home walking from St. Petersburg...he needed a couple of months..

The other one was in the Italian Navy on board of the cruiser Fiume as machines director officer and was sunk by the brits during the "Capo Matapan" battle.
Rescued by brits he spent one year prisoner in Egypt before caming back to home.

Stefano... I think your grandfather owed my grandfather $1000 dollars.. It's ok for you to pay me!

no $... it was 1000 italian Lire (about 5 pence)

 

[Dan]

My grandmother had 5 brothers who went to the front during WWII, i don't know much about them because they all died before i was born; but from my understanding they all came back drunks.


and to keep on topic: I have considered joining the Rocky Mountain Rangers (Kamloops' reserve force) but I'm probably going to wait until I'm older. (I'm currently 16)

 

[Downwind.Maddl-Land]

RAF 1972 – 1998. Joined on my 17½th birthday – couldn't have joined a day earlier. Direct entrant occifer; commissioned 1973. Graduated as a Terminal Air Traffic Controller from RAF Shawbury.
Units:
RAF Northolt,
RAF Leuchars,
RAF Machrihanish (find that one) aka Her Majasty's Open Prison!
RAF Leeming,
Airport Camp Belize,
Area Radar Training RAF Shawbury
RAF Port Stanley 8)
London Air Traffic Control Centre RAF West Drayton (next to Heathrow)
RAF St Athan
Staff Officer HQ Mil Air Traffic Ops RAF Uxbridge
RAF Honington (that also looked after Lakenheath Mildenhall)
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
OC RAF Flight Inspection Unit
Civvie…..

 

[Eighthaf]

USAF '84-'96.

Pope AFB
Suwon AB, ROK
Loring AFB
Osan AB, ROK
RAF Bentwaters
Beale AFB


Eighth

 

[bookman_reader]

RCAF/CAF Sept.1963 to Jan. 1995, Armourer (M&W Tech / Wpn Tech A / Wpn Sys. Tech)
It WAS great, but with all the political correctness they have taken a lot of the morale and fun out of it. As for the pension, you take a big hit (mine was 26%) when you hit 65 and start to get the Old Age Pension and the Canada Pension. I retired from a civy job at 65 (No pension there) and by the time it all worked itself out I took a hit of about $250 a month. Be Careful of Any Plans The Bloody Polititions Come Up With.

 

[joy17782]

us army paratrooper, infantry , germany crete, korea, bosnia, iraq , best time germany and crete , love the beer, meet a aussie babe and went skiny dipping in the med , services dates 1986 too 1999

 

[ccheese]

Has anyone looked at the US military pay scale lately ? I just downloaded
a copy from google, and I am amazed at how much it's changed in thirty
years. You gotta remember, I retired in 1971. When I retired, an E-6 with
18 years of service made $800.00 a month, our BAQ (basic allowance for
quarters) was an additional $110.10.

As of April 1, 2007 the same E-6 makes $3,133.50 and his BAH (basic
allowance for housing) is $1,000.00. So if this E-6 retires this year with
20 years in, he gets $1,566.75 a month, before taxes.

When I first joined, an E-1 with less than four months of service made
$82.00 a month. Now, the same E-1 makes $1,203.90.....

My.... how times have changed !

Charles

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Charles as an E-5 I was brining home over $4000.00 a month after taxes. That did include my Flight Pay (Hazardous Duty Pay), Seperate Rations, Housing Allowance and Cost of Living Allowance for living in Germany however.

 

[joy17782]

yeah but is it still enough, remember guys we had alot of that comeing out for uniforms, boots and the little things the army didnt give you , and so forth , but in my mind it aint enough, when the goverment gives that too a ssi person because there a drugie or something like that , i dont think people in the miltary nomatter where there at should have too pay taxes but thats my thought ps jump pay was only 125 when i was in has it changed any?

 

[ccheese]

ps jump pay was only 125 when i was in. Has it changed any?

As of April 2007 Jump pay for all grades is $150.00. However, those
qualified for HALO it's $225.00.

Charles

 

[ToughOmbre]

Just as a point of comparison...

In June, 1971 as an E-1 recruit in basic, I was getting 134.50 a month.

Upon graduation from AIT (October '71) as an E-3....175.00 a month.

TO