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How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?

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disputeone

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How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« on: April 10, 2026, 10:23:28 PM »
I was going to ask the question in reverse, but I figured this list will be much shorter.

Ill start, me. I'm the son of school teachers. I've never served, I dont have a security clearance.
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Quote from: Crouton on July 15, 2024, 05:37:14 AM
Why would that be inciting terrorism?  Lorddave was merely describing a type of shop we have here in the US, a bomb-gun shop.  A shop that sells bomb-guns.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2026, 11:46:11 PM »
Not me either, my uncles served in WW2 though, and my great great granddaddy fought in the Civil War
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2026, 06:45:56 AM »
My dad, an uncle, and a couple cousins served in Vietnam. None of them made a career in the military, though.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2026, 01:28:51 AM »
Grandfather fought in the 1st War, twice. Invalided out in the first year with trench foot, re-enlisted the next year, the Somme, Ypres, Messines, Passchendaele, northern Italy, DCM 7 days before the end of the war storming a machinegun post at Second Battle of the Sambre, a couple of hundred yards from where the Poet Wilfred Owen fell, Dad conscripted, Aden in 54, 17th/21st Lancers, radio operator in Cromwell’s and Ferret’s.

I signed up for 9 years in the RAF at 18, lasted 3 months, destroyed knee and a realisation I didn’t like being told what to do.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2026, 04:55:46 AM »
Quote from: Jura-Glenlivet II on April 13, 2026, 01:28:51 AM
I signed up for 9 years in the RAF at 18

Did you want to fly the fighter jets? I always wanted to but at the time I could have tried Bush was carpet bombing the middle east and I wanted to dogfight through narrow canyons, not bomb civilians.

I always felt like I would have been good, given training but whos to say, the closest I've ever come to flying a fighter jet was racing motorcycles.
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Quote from: Crouton on July 15, 2024, 05:37:14 AM
Why would that be inciting terrorism?  Lorddave was merely describing a type of shop we have here in the US, a bomb-gun shop.  A shop that sells bomb-guns.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2026, 05:09:08 AM »
My dad went from working on people's farms to factory's in succession. My mom was and is disabled. No one in my family was ever in the military. Everyone's been a farmer.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2026, 05:40:56 AM »
Not me but Greece has mandatory military service which sucks.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2026, 06:30:00 AM »
Quote from: disputeone on April 13, 2026, 04:55:46 AM
Quote from: Jura-Glenlivet II on April 13, 2026, 01:28:51 AM
I signed up for 9 years in the RAF at 18

Did you want to fly the fighter jets? I always wanted to but at the time I could have tried Bush was carpet bombing the middle east and I wanted to dogfight through narrow canyons, not bomb civilians.

I always felt like I would have been good, given training but whos to say, the closest I've ever come to flying a fighter jet was racing motorcycles.


Not really, went for a barrage of tests and they said I was a shoe-in for instrument tech, but because the length of training was so long, you had to sign on for 9 years(!), seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2026, 04:04:38 PM »
I worked with a bunch of instrument technicians for a while they are pretty clever.
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Quote from: Crouton on July 15, 2024, 05:37:14 AM
Why would that be inciting terrorism?  Lorddave was merely describing a type of shop we have here in the US, a bomb-gun shop.  A shop that sells bomb-guns.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2026, 11:00:21 PM »
I'm not from military background.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2026, 04:28:07 AM »
afaik same, my parents and probably even grandparents, didn't serve in wars (tho maybe great-grandparent's may have?)
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2026, 02:51:25 AM »
I don't, though all the males on my mum's side of the family will have done their national service and three great-uncles died in WWII. Mum comes from a farming family (dairy farm) and my dad's a Reverend.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2026, 12:39:15 PM »
I am a civil servant's child (Service sector (not military or police). I did my mandatory military service because it is compulsory in my country. I don't have a mobilization order. That means if a war breaks out, I won't be drafted into the army. This profile is standard for those who have nothing to do with being a soldier in my country.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2026, 03:05:44 PM »
My oldest brother and I are both US Marine Corps vets.  We each served one 4 year enlistment during peacetime.  My father also did some (what I'm assuming was) compulsory military service in the post WWII Polish army.
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Re: How many posters here don't come from a military background / family?
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2026, 03:23:35 PM »
My grandpa one of two people that raised me retired a CMSAF after serving in WW2, Korea and Vietnam.

He was in the worst areas imaginable for WW2, Korea and for about a year in Vietnam. He then got moved to a relaxed supporting position in France and let him serve a few more years before he could retire with full benefits.

I never served, was going to enlist when I was 19 in hopes of making him proud. After his response on doing so I did not finalize the paper work
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