A little about me

[Ron Smith 7]

Hello,

 

My name is Ron Smith. There are more than a few of us out there with that name, but I'm not any of the well knowns. I was born and raised in West Virginia, left for about 30 years, now I'm back. I joined the Army after high school, trained as a 64C Truck Driver and then went to VIP Driver Training. I switched to the National Guard for college (officer's candidate), but they cancelled the program so I switched to the Air Force for a Computer/Communication Systems job (I tell everyone that I loved basic training so much, I just had to do it again). I've been an avid shooter since I was a teenager. I worked in the armory when I was in the guard and learned some basic gunsmithing that I have kept up with over the years and I have recently started reloading. I went to a few meetings with a militia group when I was living in Texas but, with things going the way they are right now, I'm ready to get more seriously involved with a group here in West Virginia.

[Saiga308snipe 676]

Hey I was a 64c to did you go to fort Leonard Wood for training as I did in the early 80s 🤠

[LetFreedomRing 5,754]

WELCOME!  Check the state militia forums link on the landing page for your state, area code militia link  or tab and click on the Map tab to find people near you to connect with. 

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https://www.mymilitia.com/area-code-militias/

 

https://www.mymilitia.com/membermap/

 

Or start your own group:

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[Ron Smith 7]

Just now, Saiga308snipe said:

Hey I was a 64c to did you go to fort Leonard Wood for training as I did in the early 80s 🤠

I did! Summer of 1985, Fort Lost in the Woods, Misery 😄

[Saiga308snipe 676]

I went through hell it's was mid summer tooreally really humid and sticky yuck😫

Edited July 29 by Saiga308snipe

[Saiga308snipe 676]

After I came back from Germany went to fort Polk then fort Irwin was with great it was a bivouac training site in the desert of California we spent about three weeks out there that was it was fun my truck broke down and the convoy left me stranded smack in the middle of the desert they left me some water and a case of c rations but I survived lol the sergeant stashed a bunch of hard liquor I think I drank more there than I did in any of the barracks

Edited July 29 by Saiga308snipe

[Saiga308snipe 676]

In Germany up on at our missile site where I was stationed at I was  doing security. At a guard post alone at night come early in the morning a ranger showed up and pulled his rifle out of his trunk I guess to hunt some deer I freakout ending up jumping out of the shack and lock and loaded he just stared at me and wonder what what I was doing I 🙄had to call the sergeant on duty to have me have them unload my rifle that's that was a procedure

Edited July 29 by Saiga308snipe

[Ron Smith 7]

1 minute ago, Saiga308snipe said:

After I came back from Germany went to fort Polk but fort Irwin was with great it was a bivouac training site in the desert of California we spent about three weeks out there that was it was fun my truck broke down and the convoy left me stranded smack in the middle of the desert they left me some water and a case of c rations but I survived lol

I spent my first year in the Army at Fort Leonard Wood because they didn't want to assign me out to another unit for the short time before I switch to the guard so I could do college. Once I switched to the Air Force, I was in Lackland for Basic, Keesler for training, and then I spent the next six years at Rhein Main AB in Germany. I loved it there. Since I had a TS/SCI clearance I was assigned to a comm center for Desert Storm and the Berlin Wall came down while I was there so I got to go and chip a little piece off the wall personally.