Please Answer This Poll!!

[Buffy]

Yes, my Father was a Paratrooper.

I still think he was mad, who the hell in their right mind would jump out of planes.

Buffy

[BeverlyAnn]

I still think he was mad, who the hell in their right mind would jump out of planes.

My 4x great grandfather was in the Continental Army, my great great grandfather was in the Confederate Army, my great grandfather was US Army during the Spanish-American war, grandfather was US Army during WWI, my father was career army 1942-45 and 1947-1967.  My brother was career army 82nd Airborne (Panama, Grenada, Iraq the first time).  So not only my father but darn near all my ancestors.  FWIW, I ducked during 'Nam and spent my time floating around on a B1rd Farm.

Buffy, I always told my brother only a fool jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft.  His reply was the Air Force took them everywhere and they didn't have any perfectly good aircraft.

Beverly

[Hypatia]

My Dad became a 1st lieutenant in the Army through ROTC, and after graduation served two years during peacetime, during the Eisenhower administration. He did his 2-year tour of service in San Francisco. Not bad, huh. His father had fought in WWI. His older brothers fought in WWII, but my Dad was just a kid then. He lucked out, coming of age in the years between Korea and Vietnam. His service was over and done with before I was born, so absentee parenting wasn't an issue.

On my mother's side of the family, I'm descended from a Revolutionary War officer. Wouldn't it be a hoot if I joined the DAR...

I, on the other hand, grew up a civilian peacenik hippie. I've worked for the Defense Department, but only as a civilian contractor. No way could anyone ever have gotten me into a uniform.

What's any of that got to do with transgender?

Posted on: May 26, 2008, 01:11:18 AM

A friend of mine retired from the Navy as a chief petty officer and he and his wife have three children.  He tells me that his home is run like the military.  There is a definite schedule for waking, baths, meals, and lights out.  He and his like it that way.

This reminds me of Commander Von Trapp regulating his kids' every action with that navy whistle.

[Pica Pica]

no. but my grandad was one of the first members of the refounded SAS in the 50s.

[Lisbeth]

On my mother's side of the family, I'm descended from a Revolutionary War officer. Wouldn't it be a hoot if I joined the DAR...

I thought about that at one time.  Even wrote them a letter.  Never heard back.

[Hypatia]

I thought about that at one time.  Even wrote them a letter.  Never heard back.

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[Bumpkin]

I don't think there's any more correlation here than if your father was a preacher, cop, CEO, or anything else. Seems like fishing for cause and effect where this is none.

[MeghanAndrews]

Lol, it's funny how many people took this poll to mean more than it did. I wasn't "fishing" for anything, just curious how many other people grew up in a military family. That's it. Poll dead.

[Aiden]

Both my parents were in the army.  They met and married there, and my father was still serving when I was born on an army base.

[Ciarquin]

My dad has. The draft, I think.

[Jay]

Did Your Father Have Military Experience?  No he didn't

[JennJenn]

Just like, my great grandfather...long long time ago. he's dead now though.

[TamTam]

My great grandfather on my dad's side, yes.  My mom's dad, yes.  Anyone other than that, I honestly have no idea.  But my dad never served.

[Dante]

My father wasn't in the military, but almost everyone else in my family was. All my grandfathers, and quite a few uncles. Some grandmothers, too.

[Goldy]

My father reluctantly did national service in the 1950s.

He had just started up is own business when he was notified he had to signup for it.

[The Bri Girl]

my dad was a combat medic in viet nam.  joined as a private.  rtd. as a flight surgeon and major.  his dad was stationed on uss missouri in ww2.  my uncle was marine in nam.  2great great grandads in civil war, one at rest on lookout mountain.  ane ggrandpa a southern baptist minister, 1 a deacon.  sev great uncles in france in ww1 and ww2.
     srry for bad typing. doing nails.

[RebeccaFog]

My father had no military experience.  My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed.  He told me about it.

[JakeGrimm]

*raises paw* My daddy was. He got honourably(sp?) discharged though. Cause of differences between his moral and the army's moral. But, he was still an army man. I've been in school branches of the military myself. First Cadet Corps and then ROTC.

[Miniar]

Again.. Iceland.. no military here what so ever..

Dad was a sailor though, from the day he turned 16. Before that he worked with boat-repair in dry-dock.
Old fashioned system.
He worked every day of his life and is built like a tank for it.