What's in a screen name?

Childhood nickname.

USMC6094

yeah I hear ya, I went from here ( I grew up in Havelock and thankfully NEVER got stationed here) to MALS-11 at Miramar, though we were still supporting VMFAT-101 and VMGR-352 at El Toro before it completely closed down. I'll tell ya, coming from North Carolina and landing in San Diego was a hell of a culture shock. Then I went on a WESTPAC and after than to Iwakuni with MALS-12, finally ended up at MALS-31 at Beaufort and did a boat ride on a merchant marine ship for the invasion of Iraq and I wasnt all that happy about being cooped up on a ship with MALS-14 being the ace n the hole, lol.

You sound as though you're still living in Havelock. Small town, but a very decent place to live, in my opinion.

I went on a 6-month deployment to Iwakuni back in May - November 1989, when the big San Francisco earthquake happened during the World Series that year. Supporting the Harrier detachment, but was attached to MALS-12. Loved watching the big, slow, lumbering Shinmeiwa PS-1 flying boats of the JASDF do touch-n-go's while I was there. Those things looked as though they were just hovering, they were flying so slow. I used to have the Hasegawa kit of that plane, but stupid me decided to sell it on eBay when I was going though my divorce. Wished I could get that kit back.......

wayne baker

Spent '66-'67 with 152 at Futenma.  I lucked out in that i got to fly everywhere I went in WestPac.  Loved the fact that most everything was easy to access and work on.  Friend also went to Cherry Point from 152.  He was a parachute rigger and went to the Phantom training squadron.  He eventually got 8 hours of flight time in the back seat.

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He took this picture.

Great picture of the aerial refueling! I also saw F11F Tigers for the Blue Angels in another picture. Now, that was a while back! Cool!

My oldest son was stationed at Futenma from around 2007 - 2012 as an Air Traffic Controller. That's where he met his wife.

Spent '66-'67 with 152 at Futenma.  I lucked out in that i got to fly everywhere I went in WestPac.  Loved the fact that most everything was easy to access and work on.  Friend also went to Cherry Point from 152.  He was a parachute rigger and went to the Phantom training squadron.  He eventually got 8 hours of flight time in the back seat.

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He took this picture.

yeah I hear ya, I went from here ( I grew up in Havelock and thankfully NEVER got stationed here) to MALS-11 at Miramar, though we were still supporting VMFAT-101 and VMGR-352 at El Toro before it completely closed down. I'll tell ya, coming from North Carolina and landing in San Diego was a hell of a culture shock. Then I went on a WESTPAC and after than to Iwakuni with MALS-12, finally ended up at MALS-31 at Beaufort and did a boat ride on a merchant marine ship for the invasion of Iraq and I wasnt all that happy about being cooped up on a ship with MALS-14 being the ace n the hole, lol.

wayne baker

Spent two years at Cherry Point with 252, doing hydraulics.

Ah, yes. The KC-130 squadron. Loved hearing those birds flying around. That was another sound I never got tired of hearing. Never got to ride in one of those. I did get to hitch rides in Pedro (the station's CH-46D), a UH-1N, and a CH-53D, though. And you'd think, with the entire (and only!) Harrier training squadron at Cherry Point, I could've hitched a ride in the backseat of one of the two-seaters. Nope. Seems only dignitaries and the media got rides in the back-seat. I think the retention rate would've gone up a bit if the guys that worked on them got to ride in them. Oops.... Sorry.....My rant is over.........

USMC6094

Yeah I was an airframer, Intermediate level (MALS) hydraulics and flight controls. I did my best to stick with my type/model/series which was by and large the Hornet. though I did do some C-130 and helo work from time to time. On the ship I did some work on the Tomcat, Viking, Greyhound, and Seahawk. During OIF I did some Harrier work, but that was the exception.

6492, that probably means you were here at Cherry Point................

Yep, I was stationed there from 1984 - 1995, working on the ALQ-126As & Bs on the AV-8A, AV-8B, and TAV-8B, with a two-year break for recruiting in Albertville, AL (nope, I'd never heard of it either until I was assigned there). I thought that after recruiting, I would get sent to El Toro (the only other Harrier base in the Corps), but heck no! They sent me right back to Cherry Point!! I was originally with H&MS-32, then they changed to MALS-32, and then I was assigned to MALS-14 when I got back from recruiting, as MALS-32 was absorbed into MALS-14 (because MAG-14 absorbed MAG-32) when the Corps was cutting costs in the early 1990s. Got out in July 1995. 

Spent two years at Cherry Point with 252, doing hydraulics.

Yeah I was an airframer, Intermediate level (MALS) hydraulics and flight controls. I did my best to stick with my type/model/series which was by and large the Hornet. though I did do some C-130 and helo work from time to time. On the ship I did some work on the Tomcat, Viking, Greyhound, and Seahawk. During OIF I did some Harrier work, but that was the exception.

6492, that probably means you were here at Cherry Point................

ygmodeler4

Devil Dawg

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

Gotcha, we moved down here around 97 and yeah they still had a sort of museum in some old hangars or something near OCS while they were build the current one. Im majoring in Political Science and if I can cram enough classes in before next spring Ill try to minor in Security and Conflict studies

That is definitely a very relevant major nowadays. Stay focused on it, my friend. You'll have that degree in no time. Good Luck!

Devil Dawg

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

USMC6094

I was in the Marine Corps for a little over nine years and my first MOS number was 6094, so there you have it lol

Semper Fi, Devil Dog/Leatherneck/Jar-Head! What MOS is 6094? I was a 6492 - Deceptive Electronics Countermeasures. I'm assuming that since yours starts with a 6, it is probably aviation-related. 

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

Devil Dawg

What I wouldn't give to be 23 again......... I'll be 50 in April, and have so many ailments (almost all due to me not taking care of myself when I was younger) that it's getting hard to move around some mornings. I work in many hospitals with lots of physicists, and the ones that are around 40 are looking so much younger to me. I can remember when 40 was really old...............

Anyways, keep thinking young, and you'll always be young. One word of advice - take care of your mind & body now, while you're still very young. I didn't, and I'm paying for it now. I am personally keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business............... Laying on a heart-cath table at 43 while awake and having angioplasty performed and stents inserted ain't fun. It hurts. Severely...... I'll shut up now.

By the way, where, and what university, is UMW?

University of Mary Washington, it's in Fredericksburg, VA....halfway between DC and Richmond, though I'm sure as a Marine you may at least kind of know where Fburg is....after all Quantico is the Crossroads of the Corps

Chanter

Thanks all.  

Devil Dawg - you are right, they are called bands.  Do you know any of the names of the ones on your album?  There are some amazing ones out there for sure.

We're gearing up for the Virginia International Tattoo in April at the Scope Arena in Norfolk.  It is a great show to do, plus it gives us Canadians a nice little head start on Spring. 

Allen

Hi, Allen. I have some 1st Battalion Scots Guards, The Black Watch, & The Gordon Highlanders. They're pretty darned good, especially the Scots Guards. Ever hear of any of them?

Hope you guys have a great time in Norfolk. Of course, the natives there don't pronounce it like it's spelled. It's pronounced more like "No F**k", if you get my meaning. I'm sure you'll have some of them correcting you on it's pronunciation........

What I wouldn't give to be 23 again......... I'll be 50 in April, and have so many ailments (almost all due to me not taking care of myself when I was younger) that it's getting hard to move around some mornings. I work in many hospitals with lots of physicists, and the ones that are around 40 are looking so much younger to me. I can remember when 40 was really old...............

Anyways, keep thinking young, and you'll always be young. One word of advice - take care of your mind & body now, while you're still very young. I didn't, and I'm paying for it now. I am personally keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business............... Laying on a heart-cath table at 43 while awake and having angioplasty performed and stents inserted ain't fun. It hurts. Severely...... I'll shut up now.

By the way, where, and what university, is UMW?

I was in the Marine Corps for a little over nine years and my first MOS number was 6094, so there you have it lol

Devil Dawg

ygmodeler4

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

Very young, by my standards..... and age!!

I just feel.... old though LOL well maybe not old...but definitely not young, maybe it's because I'm still in college and I see these 17/18 year old's all the time, maybe it's because I have friends from high school who have gone on and gotten married, or have gone on and done great things, most of it's because my body is just feels broken....I definitely don't have the "illusion" that I'm indestructible that most "young" people have.....oh well rant over haha

ygmodeler4

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

Very young, by my standards..... and age!!

Enlightening thread.

my name and my avatar is me in my tom clancy look.

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

Thanks all.  

Devil Dawg - you are right, they are called bands.  Do you know any of the names of the ones on your album?  There are some amazing ones out there for sure.

We're gearing up for the Virginia International Tattoo in April at the Scope Arena in Norfolk.  It is a great show to do, plus it gives us Canadians a nice little head start on Spring. 

Allen

in 94 i was the proud owner of an english mastiff...225 lbs of pure joy.he was my four legged kid. he went everywhere with me and was heartbroken if i left him home. his nickname was BubbaDog. one day my wife commented if you looked quick you couldn't tell us apart.one of my girls yelled..he's BubbaDog and thats BubbJjoe..it stuck and i've used it as my handle since then

Mine comes from the fact that I'm a former Marine - I guess that much is pretty easy to figure out. But Devil Dog was already taken, along with the many sequential numbers that could've come after it (Devil Dog01, etc.). So, I tried Devil Dawg (to give it a slight Southern flair, as I grew up in Memphis), and it was actually available. Real name is Gary Mason, and that is my picture in the avatar. The photo was taken in April 2008 in Naha, Okinawa, during the wedding of my oldest Marine son and his Okinawan wife.

Chanter

One of my other passtimes is bagpipes.  The chanter is the part of the pipes that the melody notes are played on.  I have played all over, but by far the most memorable was when I was part of the Canadian Forces Pipes & Drums contigent that went to Moscow to take part in Russia's first ever tattoo, the Kremlin Zoria. 

 

In my opinion, you have just surpassed everybody else's screen name story. Bagpipe player! That is very cool! Love the sound of those things. I actually have an entire album of nothing but bagpipe music of many different bagpipe bands from around the world (I'm assuming that they're called bands - is that the correct name?).  

the doog

My fiancee, Jenn had a particularly bad day and week, and came home from work from her old job as a hostess at a big Italian restaurant where she'd had some rude, disconsolate patrons. She came in in a bad mood, but then her two dogs (whom she calls her "doogs")  ran up to her -- as they always did--and started kissing her and begging for her attention. She brightened up and smiled and said "Ya know, you can have the worst day in the world, and yet when you come home, nobody loves you like your doogs"

Naurally, being her fiancee, I became a "doog" on the spot,.

Now THAT is a great story! I love it!

stikpusher

Once upon a time I used to exit perfectly good (debatably) aircraft in flight for Uncle Sam. The last man out the door of a group of jumpers (stick) was call a stick pusher, and I was often assigned this position. When I first went online and needed a handle (and was still on jump status) I chose it. I left out the "c" to make it mine. My avatar photo here is a close up from a pre jump team photo taken a few weeks before 9/11.

Cool, stik. I've often wondered if that was really you in your avatar photo. Kinda wished everyone would use an actual photo of themselves, as I like to see who I'm conversing with....

My name 'minimagneto' is pretty random.  I like things that are 'mini', and I think magnetos are neat...that's about it, lol.

-Blake