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10 hours ago, KathyLauren said:

LOL!

"Clandestine HUMINT collection" = good guys.

"Spies" = bad guys.

Same job description.

Got it!  😄:devil:

Well, TBH, I don't know what the current MOS designation is. It's changed at least 3 times since I retired and twice before that.  Technically, I was an interrogator with a couple special designations, but the Army decided that "interrogator" was too scary and kept changing the name and the MOS code. I could barely keep up and after I retired, I quit trying to follow the changes.  Mostly, I was in civilian clothes and worked out of various embassies in the Middle East. Loved the work, but I admit I got kinda spoiled and pretty lax in terms of military discipline and appearance...🤭 Wish I got that guitar riff though.

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I really wanted to serve, and to make the military my life. So, when I was 18, I tried to enlist. Back then, the german military allowed women only to serve as nurses, or in the music corps. As I had no training in any such field, I got rejected. Later I was quite glad they didn`t take me, as I really wanted no job at all as a woman. 

 

Nowadays women can enter any field in the german military, except submarines. I tried my luck, again, 2 years ago, I was to become a military trucker with the army. Being an ftm-guy didn`t matter to them, they were understanding and respectful. 

Unfortunately I got rejected due to some old, but fully healed, injuries. They said, that I might have issues due to that, somwhere in the future, and that was the reason to reject me. 

 

There is an mtf woman, think she is a colonel, who helps LGBT+ soldiers. I contacted her, but she said, that there is nothing she could do to help me, as the rejection is not based on me being trans. Still sad, I really wanted to be a soldier.

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On 10/3/2022 at 7:04 AM, Marcie Jensen said:

I'd say it was confusing for us all.

What I found maddening was purging and re-outfitting myself, purging and re-outfitting, purging and re-outfitting –– over and over, with every change of duty-station. I can remember, in the days just before I was enter the service and leave for my first stateside assignment, thinking, "well, I guess I'll never get to wear my 'pretty things' again," and dumping everything at midnight into a half dozen waste barrels in the empty parking lot at the local beach.  First overseas assignment? No problem; I didn't need any "pretty things." Then, returning stateside and longing to dress, having to do a dozen catalogue orders to re-outfit myself. (No online ordering back then.) And that's the way it went, between stateside and overseas, over and over again: purging and re-outfitting, purging and re-outfitting. I tell you: that got darn expensive! 🤣 ––Rianon

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i did not serve, and it is one of my biggest regrets. Not that it looks fun or anything; indeed, it looks grueling and the folks that put on those uniforms and say NOT ON MY WATCH, all deserve whatever this Country can give them as a serious THANK YOU.

 

Others like me get to gripe about sports or theatre, or sales at the malls, because others like you brave folks picked up the tab with your courage. THANK YOU. I and the rest of the Country owe you and your fellow soldiers/sailors, and airmen/women a debt that can never be repaid. 

 

The more former military people i meet, the more i realize they acquire a certain confidence and grace that simply cannot be acquired anywhere else. THANK YOU ALL. 

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Congratulations, Hannah Renee, both on your 50th anniversary and on your updated DD214! Enjoy those happy tears!

 

Rianon

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US Air Force 2008-10. F-15 and A-10 weapons troop.

Ended up getting med boarded.

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Welcome @Claire Heshi. Thank you for serving. The A-10 is one of my favorite airplanes. Every time we needed air support and called, the A-10s came. And quickly. 

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On 4/24/2023 at 8:28 AM, Marcie Jensen said:

Welcome @Claire Heshi. Thank you for serving. The A-10 is one of my favorite airplanes. Every time we needed air support and called, the A-10s came. And quickly. 

Glad they were helpful, Eglin's leaked hydraulic fluid so much I've got stuff the still smells like the stuff. Got a 30mil casing as a memento, loading the gau always scared the -crap- outta me >.<  

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Hannah 

congrats darling on the anniversary n that correct dd214. I'm guessing that brought the happy tears

 good for you girl. enjoy it. you inspire us.

hugs 

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On 4/22/2023 at 3:41 PM, Hannah Renee said:

I received my updated DD214 with my new legal name

Is this hard to do?

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Renee

I don't know how hard but it sounds wonderful the government recognizes you as your authentic self. good for you dear

 

hugs

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US Air Force Security Forces September 9 2003-September 10 2014

Duty Stations

RAF Mildenhall England 2003-2007

McConnell AFB Wichita, KS 2007-2014

 

Deployments/TDY

Albania 2004 (TDY)

Tallil AB Iraq 2005

Camp Bucca Compound 8 2007

Balad AB 2008

Al Udied 2010

Al Udied 2013

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I enlisted in the air force, but I never passed the physical (bad knees, diabetes, flat feet, etc...). They wouldn't take me.

 

I did work on a couple bases doing "engineering work" as a civilian, Nelis AFB near Vegas, and Fort Riley in Kansas. Also 10 years with the USDA/NRCS as a private consultant. 

 

Nope, I didn't serve. 😐

 

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US Army mos 96B Military Intelligence Analyst as in the S-2 clerk I join two day after high school June 14, 1979 I stay in until July 9, 2000 I had a TS SBIG SCI TK clearnese four years later I reup for 96F Psychological Operations Specialist made SP5/E-5  I stay in until July 9, 2000 with the mos of 96Z Intelligence Seniuor Sergeant During the total time in the Total Ban of the 1980s and Do Not Tell Do Not Ask the Govt had a escape deal with that under National Security they could ask me and I had to tell under the 1947 Nation Security Act I could not hide anything about me to the Govt. So this part of me stay in the closet the whole 21 years and didnt come out until my ex outed me on May 12, 2005 to everyone. So I didnt care after that 

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