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Post by rovchanin on Nov 2, 2007 22:53:08 GMT -5
Tell my about your stories in the army..
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Post by Lonevolk on Nov 5, 2007 7:02:31 GMT -5
As far as I'm aware, only myself and 'Kuboslav' have served
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Post by slavfighter91 on Nov 5, 2007 12:06:18 GMT -5
well share your knowledge..where have you been and what did you experience brother?
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Post by Lonevolk on Nov 5, 2007 18:08:17 GMT -5
well share your knowledge..where have you been and what did you experience brother? I wrote about it a while ago and posted some pics. But your new here so you probably missed it. Here's a quick summary: * 1987-88: national service in the then JNA * 1989-90: in the Australian Army Reserve (part-time) * 1991-92: spent some time in Eastern Slavonia (Vukovar) and then later on the coast near Zadar |
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Post by Kuboslav on Nov 6, 2007 9:48:22 GMT -5
Wow! You have much more to say than I  ... I was 9 months in Polish Navy, but not on vessel (only two weeks at vessel museum ORP Lightning), only in boundary navial troops... From 5th December 2006 to 28th September 2007... First two months in Center of Polish Navy Training in Ustka, then in 11th Regiment of Communication Polish Navy's... But Serve in the Regiment was in two places - first in the woods of Gdynia - 3km to closest way. There were only 40 soldiers, and we had to serve guard so often like it was possible... then after another 2 months to the centre of this military unit, in Wejherowo... I was a medic, but in Wejherowo man had fear to go to the doctor, because I hated the simmulants  ... I don't know what more i can write about it... Of course it was one of best times in my short life... Even when it wasn't easy... |
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Post by slavfighter91 on Nov 7, 2007 9:37:08 GMT -5
thats some good spirit and lonevolk you been to JNA?...great i still have my military service ahaed but i hope ill serve as well as you guys did. btw you wrote you have been in vukovar..you mean the battle of vukovar or just been there like visiting the place? |
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Post by Lonevolk on Nov 7, 2007 18:30:42 GMT -5
thats some good spirit you mean the battle of vukovar or just been there like visiting the place? Yep, a tourist with a gun and in uniform |
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Post by Boleslaw on Nov 23, 2007 16:34:23 GMT -5
I tried to volunteer but was rejected because of my asthma.
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Post by vara on Dec 9, 2007 20:27:01 GMT -5
I think I have all you fellows beat! Yes, not all veterans are men! (Remember the "Night Witches?")  I am a former US Navy officer who specialised in what country... gee, you knew already... was it that obvious? I served during the Cold War, (1976-1989) in the days when it looked as though the USSR was not only a going concern, but a permanent one at that! I served in interesting places doing interesting things with interesting people. That being said, I can report that "Mission: Impossible" is all wet. You spend most of your time in an office cubicle with a computer terminal being a "civilian in uniform". My abilities in Russian, French, and German were in demand during the Cold War. Most of us were RIF'd after the fall of the Berlin Wall. America was being its usual self... it mortgaged its future for short-term immediate gain (as certain unnamed sorts are doing in Slavdom now... America is waning and its imitators in E Europe had best watch out). Bog blagoslovit. Vara (ex-LCDR USNR) |
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Post by Jarovit on Dec 10, 2007 0:33:23 GMT -5
I was in the Slovene territorial Defense during 1988-1991, during the tan-day war I've fought with the 14. Odred, from Ljubljana to Cerklje.
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Post by Lonevolk on Dec 10, 2007 5:20:07 GMT -5
I was in the Slovene territorial Defense during 1988-1991, during the tan-day war I've fought with the 14. Odred, from Ljubljana to Cerklje. Looks like we just missed each other in 1991...except I was on the opposite side Did you serve in the JNA? (before the breakup) ......... I think I have all you fellows beat! Yes, not all veterans are men! Interesting.....so you worked for the opposition?  |
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Post by Srbopol on Dec 10, 2007 5:26:53 GMT -5
Hopfully she was acing in full love of bringing down communist regieme and not Russia ah..... Us navy..... something i wasnt expecting
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Post by vara on Dec 10, 2007 7:16:49 GMT -5
Dear Lonevolk, Did you see (ex-LCDR USNR)? It meant I served in the US Navy as an officer. It is simple, truly. My family is of White Guard émigré background. So, one spoke Russian and French as a matter of course. Such linguistic ability was in demand during the Cold War. Vara (in a puckish mood) |
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Post by Jarovit on Dec 10, 2007 12:11:29 GMT -5
I was in the Slovene territorial Defense during 1988-1991, during the tan-day war I've fought with the 14. Odred, from Ljubljana to Cerklje. Looks like we just missed each other in 1991...except I was on the opposite side Did you serve in the JNA? (before the breakup) I was drafted to JLA in 1986 and spend one year in an infantry brigade in Beograd before I was reassigned back home to Slovenska Teritorialna Obramba. |
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Post by jaropolk on Dec 10, 2007 18:24:23 GMT -5
I think I have all you fellows beat! Yes, not all veterans are men! (Remember the "Night Witches?") I am a former US Navy officer who specialised in what country... gee, you knew already... was it that obvious? I served during the Cold War, (1976-1989) in the days when it looked as though the USSR was not only a going concern, but a permanent one at that! I served in interesting places doing interesting things with interesting people. That being said, I can report that "Mission: Impossible" is all wet. You spend most of your time in an office cubicle with a computer terminal being a "civilian in uniform". My abilities in Russian, French, and German were in demand during the Cold War. Most of us were RIF'd after the fall of the Berlin Wall. America was being its usual self... it mortgaged its future for short-term immediate gain (as certain unnamed sorts are doing in Slavdom now... America is waning and its imitators in E Europe had best watch out). Bog blagoslovit. Vara (ex-LCDR USNR) Stierlitz?   |
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