Were you ever in the Armed Forces

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LOL, the grunts try and catch rides with anything they can. We would land someplace and they would run out "Hey you guys going to Mosul!?" If we were and we had space we would take them. We used to joke around about it and say we were going to put Johnny Cab signs on our doors. The call sign that the army gave us to use in Iraq (normally it is Knighthawks) was Angry Cat (example Angry Cat 21) and we said that the Cat stood for Combat Air Taxi.

Overall though we did not mind, it was a hell of lot safer to fly than drive and get hit by IED's.
 
Sorry NS, im not much of a Navy person. My relatives who were in the armed forces were always in the Army. National Guard, Regular, Army Air Corps, (Great Uncle in WWII) I dont think we have had anyone else to serve in a different branch of the military.
 
P38 Pilot said:
Sorry NS, im not much of a Navy person. My relatives who were in the armed forces were always in the Army.
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Big deal. My grandfather was in the Air Force, my great grandfather was in the Army, and my uncle and great uncle were both Army paratroopers.
I did have two cousins in the Navy though.
 
Well lets see my German Grandfather was in the Wehrmacht in WW2 but I do not know anything else about any of my other German relatives before him being in the army. I know my German Uncles served there normal time in the German Army for 18 months after they got out of school.

On the American side of my family, my father was in the Army for 22 years (not sure on that it could have been 24, I will have to ask him) and the Navy for 2 years. My American Grandfather was in the US Army and his father was in the US Army. Several of my Uncles were in the Marines but most of them were in the Army.
 
My only point was that one particular branch of service didn't become the necessity in my family. My great grandfather on the other side was actually a Mountie. He was in the old Northwest Mounted Police, before they became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He worked up in the Yukon, with a dog team and everything.
 
Well, im not really much of a Navy person still. Alder, i would call that irony for you grandfather who was in the Wermacht. His grandson being in the American Army while he was in the German army!

Twist of irony but cool!
 
I dont know. I will have to ask him. I think it is because after his stint in the Navy he decided to go to Flight School and the Navy would not let him fly but the Army would.
 
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