U.S. Marine Corps 1980-1984
10th Marines (Artillery)
Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Two six month Med Cruises:
USS Spartanburg County 1981
USS Saginaw 1982 (ended up in Beirut)
A couple short cruises later aboard the USS Nassau. One to Vieques, near Puerto Rico and the second to Honduras.
Also a short trip (flight) to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base just before I got out.
Trained at Parris Island, South Carolina (boot camp), Twenty Nine Palms, California (CAX), Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Pickett, Virginia.
Mississippi Air National Guard 1991-1997
186th Medical Squadron
Meridian ANGB, Mississippi
Trained at Sheppard AFB, Texas (tech school), Lackland AFB, Texas (clinical at Wilford Hall Medical Center), the Air Guard base at Alpena, Michigan (annual training), Keesler AFB, Mississippi (annual training) and Fort Hood, Texas (ORI).
Also visited Honduras to give immunizations and provide some medical care to rural Hondurans in 1996.