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Rank Question

Hope you fine Vets can help me out here.  My wife served in the Navy as a Corpsman who served at Oakland Naval Hospital and with the Marines at MCAS El Toro.  She died recently and I want to put a plaque on her urn honoring her military service.  She

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Obamas Navy

Admiral Michelle Howard

Disturbing!
 
How does one get 7 rows of ribbons, without any combat? Oh, she showed up for work most of the time (4 rows), is female (2.5 rows), and possibly a minority (.5 rows). Did I get that right? Admiral Michelle Howard, U

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My Navy Career

 As an interesting aside note, when I applied for Medical Laboratory School, I did not have enough time left in the service to get the school.  I needed to extend my enlistment for a year.  However, through a series of screw ups, the extension was ne

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My Navy Career

On April 1959, I joined the Navy in Corpus Christi, Texas.  I was sent to boot camp at San Diego.  From there, I went to Hospital Corps school at USNH Balboa.  I was there from July 1959 through November 1959.  I was then sent to USNH Portsmouth, VA

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