# What military branches are represented on the SD? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118 "2007-02-14T00:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/81 "2007-02-19T00:27:39Z")
Canadian Forces 2000-present [Hawk](http://www.flickr.com/photos/45226122@N00/394681400/) pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/82 "2007-02-19T03:19:46Z")
United States Navy EM3 1986-92 _USS LaMoure County LST-1194_ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/83 "2007-02-19T03:30:05Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] United States Navy EM3 1986-92 _USS LaMoure County LST-1194_ [/QUOTE] Did you do A-school in Great Mistakes? ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/84 "2007-02-19T11:52:32Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Did all the Air Force types fly or did anyone sit in any bunkers waiting to turn keys? [/QUOTE] Air Force O-3, 2000-2005 (ballistic missiles / weather satellites) I was a rocket scientist for the Air Force. I never saw the numbers, but we were told as a rule of thumb that fewer than 10% of officers were pilots, and that officers comprised roughly 25% of the Air Force. At only 2.5% of the total, it’s unlikely that you’ll have very many pilots on here, but **Airman Doors** is aircrew: an enlisted man who makes the plan do its mission (vice driving the bus). S&M (space and missiles) is another growing field; “Ops” officers do their four years in a silo waiting to turn the key, but acquisition guys with engineering degrees skip that crap and do an operational tour in technical intelligence or aircraft maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/85 "2007-02-19T15:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Crimmsy] Canadian Forces 2000-present [Hawk](http://www.flickr.com/photos/45226122@N00/394681400/) pilot. [/QUOTE] Hey Crimmsy, where are you currently posted (if you don’t mind answering)? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/86 "2007-02-19T15:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Royal Signals then Special Forces. [/QUOTE] Training at Catterick then transferred to Cardington RAF? From Cardington to ?? ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/87 "2007-02-19T16:05:25Z")
[QUOTE=LSLGuy] USAF Capt (O-3) 1981 - 1989 Ground Forward Air Controller / Air FAC O-2 pilot F-16 pilot [/QUOTE] USAF 1971-1975 Sgt/ and I was a ROMAD in Korea. I’ve got 6 hours right seat in an Oscar Deuce. 😃 three of them throwing up ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/88 "2007-02-19T17:48:26Z")
US Army 89-93 NJ National Guard 93-present Have held MOSs in aviation and armor. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/89 "2007-02-19T18:03:35Z")
Thank you all. For my part, I vote early and often and shipped a deck of plastic cards for poker playing in Iraq. I did make a customers day when I asked about his hat, he wouldn’t tell me so I looked it up. I then told him what I learned. He said he wanted to marry me. He was a member of the Silent Drill team the 2nd year it existed. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/90 "2007-02-19T18:58:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by \*\*What Exit ? \*\* > Did you do A-school in Great Mistakes? No, through the nuclear program in Orlando, FL (Basic was there, too- :)). Made it through the A-school and some of Power School before my brain melted. There seems to be a few EM’s on the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/91 "2007-02-19T19:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] No, through the nuclear program in Orlando, FL (Basic was there, too- :)). Made it through the A-school and some of Power School before my brain melted. There seems to be a few EM’s on the SDMB [/QUOTE] I opted out of nukes. When they said I was an EM, I said I would not serve 6 years. So I got to go to fleet as an E3. I really thought I was guaranteed Nuke ET, I was very unhappy about it at the time. I think it worked out much better this way. I do not think I would really want to work in a Nuke power plant anyway. I was just a gullible 18 year old that got fast talked. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/92 "2007-02-19T20:38:42Z")
Same here. I nailed the ASVABs, and they started hounding me. I had no $$ for college, so off I went, rocked out of Power school, and ended up on an LST, then in a damned war where I didn’t do jack (we were the “amphibious fake” in Desert Storm - although if we HAD gone in, Lady Lamoure would have led the assault, with yours truly at the Bow Ramp Controls!). My best friend went in at the same time - he got ET - I think he’s an ETC now, if he’s still in - went the undersea route. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118/93 "2007-02-20T01:34:03Z")
USAF Major (O-4) Active duty 1990-2000. Reserves 2000-2003 Pilot - C27, C-141 (duh), T-1 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-military-branches-are-represented-on-the-sd/392118.md?page=4)