What was your grandfather's job?

What was your grandfather's job?

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Rant every thanksgiving about how the negro ruins this country

Engineer, like actually driving trains.

he drove a bus and was a customs inspector

yes he was white...it was a long time ago

He was a mobster/gangster so i guess being a crook was his job

Photo reconnaissance pilot for the Royal Air Force. Pretty bamf, bruh.

Aerial gunner in WWII and then carpenter
If I get old enough that I cant enjoy my physical activities Im going to take up woodworking like he did
Wish he was still around to have seen me become a Marine

Oil field hand
Vietnam
Some computer shit at IBM
Oil change place proprieter
Retired

A carpenter. Owned an antique shop at one point where he fixed wooden antiques.

He was Kommandant of Auswich

SEAL Team Two plankowner, meaning he was one of the original members or some shit. He was very proud about it. We lost him three years ago. RIP in peace grandpop.

mums side was a hard working millworker, grinded his arse off for 20 years, but it all ended up as shit because he was a sexist who gave all his money to his son and neglected his 5 daughters who took care of him and his wife until his end.

Dads side was a doctor in India, he had 2 degrees, but he specialised in homeopathy so I don't think he was a real medical doc. Yet he still ran a clinic and helped many poor people, eventually dying in poverty himself.

I wish I knew what my older ancestors did.

Air force fighter pilot during WW2

Master electrician after working through apprentice and journeyman. Helped build some bridges that raise and lower that I've driven across, pretty cool stuff.

Died of cancer from asbestos because, as an electrician, he was surrounded by the stuff on a near daily basis. He died before I was born, fuck you asbestos.

He was a famous footballer

Navigator in 1942 USAF. European theater. Flew in a B-17. 27 missions under his belt, lucky bastards club. Became a chemist after the war.

Flew UH-1 and AH-1s in Vietnam

Other grandfather did some service in Korea after the war, then moved on to be a farmer in Kansas and made quite a bit of money

Both of my grandfathers were alcoholics with shitty relationships with their kids

A gunner for the RAF, was in Africa and Europe, worked as a bar man then retired, mad bastard from the stories I heard after his passing.

Never knew my grandfather or grandmother from my motherside, which is quite sad as I have been told that they were amazing people

Farmer, both sides. I work part time in IT. Every time I sit at that desk I feel like their spirits are watching me and shaking their heads. And if they're not, then at least I'm disappointed with myself.

My grandpa on my mothers side was born during the war. His dad was crew on an escort carrier that pilots learned to land and take off on.
Dads dad was a mechanic on state side bombers that patrolled the coast for submarines, claimed they bombed alot of whales by accident. Was stationed in london for a short time after the war. He died long before I was born. His brother, my great uncle was a huge source of pride for our family. He enlisted in the navy as a corpsman. Not tough enough for him, reenlisted as a marine. Took a bullet in the ass on Iwo Jima. It was still in him when he was buried in '04. Kindest most gentle man you could ever know, had a hollowed out hand grenade full of gold teeth dead japanese soldiers donated to him with the use of a rifle butt.

I have a book on my desk at work with a picture of him in a fox hole and a shell going off in the background. He found the book one day in a bookstore and was flipping threw it and found himself. There was a photographer attached to his unit so the beginning of the book talking about how the soldiers passed time aboard the ships shows alot of guys in his unit playing cards etc.

Miss that guy

Fisheries biologist

My grandfather was a electrician.

t. German

One was drafted in the army during Korean War, had bad eye sight so he was put in intelligence. Claimed that there was very little intelligence to go around. After the war he was a physics teacher.

The other first joined the Air Force right at the tail end of the Korean War, but the war ended when got out of basic training. He spent his enlistment fixing B-52 bombers. Afterwards he did basic car maintenance and owned a gas station at one time.

>his grandfather fought in America's most uninteresting colonial war

He chugged dick and shat nickels

>WWII
>Joined at 15, his father lied for him
>Navy Sea Bee
>Built runways while under Jap fire
>Never let anyone talk shit about Marines because they saved Sea Bee asses many times
>Built runway for Bockscar
>Watched it take off and make crispy sushi out of Nagasaki
>Turned 18 4 days later.

Lol, didn't even fight. He was stationed in Japan for the duration of the war. He said that they would keep track of all the numbers of planes, ships, guns, ammunition etc. that went to Korea. He wasn't a military man at all.

Doctor for a mining company. There were no specializations - it was him and his nurse. Somebody came with a job site injury, he patched him together. Surgery needed, he was the surgeon. Miners wife having a baby, he delivered. Miner's kid needed something, he was the pediatrician. He had an office in his house so people could drop in when the clinic was closed, and had a separate phone line in his bedroom in case there was an emergency in the night.

Grandfather joined the Wehrmacht in 1940 and participated in the Invasion of Greece

he was a ww2 vet and became a mechanic after that.

My moms dad was a gangster in chicago, served time in alcatraz when he was in his 20s, got out and moved to oklahoma to be a farmer.
My dads dad was in nam but nobody knows at all what he did because he never talked about it, was a mongol until he died.

Army
Police officer
New york state trooper
Secret service agent

Some shit my mother has from him is pretty fucking cool

Hell, I can't even remember it all. Trapper, hunter, fisher, bush pilot, guide, trucker, millwright, heavy equipment operator, I'm sure I'm missing some.

Passed away in October, two days after my birthday. If I even live half as accomplished as that man, I'd be happy.

Train Driver

One of the first US NAVY SEALS in Vietnam. Not even kidding.
Got recruited out of UDT.

My grand dad toured in Europe during the Vietnam War. And my great grand dad was part of the CCC before becoming a coal miner

Officer in the Polish army as far as I know (dads side), all I know about my grandfather on my moms side is that he was good at carving wooden statues

Stockbroker by day, town drunk by night.

Navy in WWI, then crane operator. Worked on the Empire State Building, The UN building and Through Neck Bridge, to name a few

Surveyor

he was a freedom fighter

he was high level illumnati he ran many countires with a fair but iron fist
he owns all of the words dna labs
he will bank roll the first town in mars
rothchilds bow down to him
he wons all of the worlds banks
he has an iq of +215

He was in the Army in WW2, fighting in Europe vs the Nazis. He had a general store back then when he got out, but he sold it to be a farmer because a farmer made more money back then. Go figure.

I always find it odd how devestated people are when their grandparent dies.

Both grandfather's died well before I was born. One grandmother lived in Asia. I met her once when 10 and neither of us spoke the same language so she was nothing more than an old foreign lady to me, she died a few yeas later. Other grandmother I met 2 or 3 times but she died before I was 5 and showed no interest in my family.

mom went insane when grandma died

weired thing is my grand ma raised me went through some tough times so didn't really feel sad she died i hope she is well in the other side she had a really hard life

>>I have a book on my desk at work with a picture of him in a fox hole and a shell going off in the background. He found the book one day in a bookstore and was flipping threw it and found himself. There was a photographer attached to his unit so the beginning of the book talking about how the soldiers passed time aboard the ships shows alot of guys in his unit playing cards etc
nice

One grandfather rode around in tanks in WW2 and then came home to be pastry chef in Boston.

The other was a transport driver during WW2 and then came home to drive the Green Line trolley in Boston and run a driving school.

Yeah I'm a fair bit older than a lot of you faggots.

dads side
carpenter.
when he died my family fought like hell over who got some of his work especially a set of dining room chairs. they still fight over those chairs to this day.

moms side
and im not fucking joking he was a nazi who fought in WW2 he showed me his helmet from the war one time (he NEVER talks about it) and showed me where a bullet impacted and deflected from it. no he was never running camps or gassing jews he was on the front lines.

WWII and Korean war Vet, after that he was a firefighter and ascended to the rank of firechief before retiring in 1965 due to health complications, lived to be 97.

vietnam draft dodger

Farmers.

He developed subdivisions in Greensboro, NC

I wish I knew the name of it. Id snap some pics of it.
His copy has all sorts of notes that he wrote in it, mine I just bought on amazon a year or two ago. When I was younger he was just some old dude ya know, moved away from my town (he and my great aunt were the only extended family we had within a half hour or so) about 4 years before he died. I think I was in 6th grade when he passed, maybe just before then because it was around the 4th of July. Now days Id love to have his advice being a bit older now and getting going with my life, people from my home town still ask about him, his wife, his daughter etc.

I had a teacher whose uncle legally changed his name to the name everyone new my great uncle by. He was really the perfect replacement for the grandpa I never knew.

I remember it being odd to me how much of my mothers family showed up to his funeral, but looking back it wasnt really odd. He was just that kind of guy, lucky to have known him.

Didnt feel like crying tonight thanks dick

that's pretty badass

Maternal grandfather was a welder, and before that he was a farmer and blacksmith...he did a fair bit of moonshining when he was growing up too.

Paternal grandpa was a machinist and electrician. He worked extensively at both over the years, but in the early 70s he started his own machine shop, which I work in today.

farmer. farmer/scrap for the war effort collector

When he wasn't drunk and savagely beating his family, he was a safety inspector on construction sites. Well, he was drunk then as well.

One day a gust blew him off a sky scraper but it also blew a piece of the tyvek wrapping out so he ended up falling into that and sliding safely back inside the building a couple stories below.

He ended up walking up behind everyone who saw him fall like in that Indiana Jones movie with Sean Connery. Pretty sure he went home that night and beat the shit out of my dad and uncles.

He was sober by the time I got to meet him though, so I love the guy.

The other one drove an ambulance in Korea, came back to drive one at home, till he got frustrated with not being able to help people like he could in Korea. He became a firefighter after. He was also a drunk, but much more distant with his family, so not as abusive.

>tl;Dr: both drunks
>explains the shakes my hand was doing this morning.

My grandfather merged General Telephone & Electric and Bell Atlantic into Verizon.

Your mom's pimp

Tank gunner in the US 1st Armored Division during WW2

>Mom's side
Military. Don't remember what branch. Don't know his role except some paperwork that said "marksman" something. Figure it's too glamorous to assume he was a sniper.

>Dad's side
Toy store owner. Jew.
Incidentally, dropped out of college to join the army, then contracted pneumonia and they wouldn't take him. College wouldn't take him back, so he opened a toy store.

For what its worth, not trying to tear your image of your grandfather down, but marksman is the minimum qualification for your rifle. It goes marksman, sharpshooter, expert. He could've been a squad designated marksman, don't know if they were around then. Kind of like snipers, best shot in the squad got a special rifle or a scope, but didn't go through all the rigorous survival training of a sniper.

Neh, it's fine. He wasn't a war hero. Just a Texan, patriotic. He was a scientist and veterinarian. Which made it confusing because he was a vet and also a vet.

A real-estate agent.

His father before him was a soldier for many years in both World Wars.

nigger wrangler

What's up with half of you only having one grandpa?

My maternal grandfather was a tail gunner in WW2 then a factory worker.

My paternal grandfather was a farmer.

My maternal was in the German Army in WW2.

My paternal was in the British Army in WW2.

Both were at Tobruk on the same section of line so they tend not to talk about it.

German one opened a deli and Scottish one stayed in the Army.

paternal worked at ford his whole life
maternal is a schizophrenic and has spent most of his life in a ward.

Gun smith, had a line of rifles they sold in the general store but sadly when he passsd away due to natural causes it was the Great Depression and all so the family had to sell things and the first ones went wee the rifles that had been made so my family never had a single one to pass down and pretty much everything went

Maternal grandfather was in the army during WW2. Not sure what he did. He never spoke about it. Retired after 35 years of being a chemical engineer. Passed away last year. Paternal grandfather was a paratrooper. Actually parachuted into Nazi German during WWII. Got a couple purple heart medals. Spent 30 or so years as a master electrician. Blew a couple of fingers off and retired. Passed away late 90s.

My grandfather was a computer operator for Remington Rand. This was back in the mainframe days with reel to reel tape drives in computers the size of a fridge. He said the computers had 16kilobytes of RAM. I can't wrap my mind around that.

Navy Sea Bee in Vietnam, Arizona Security Guard, farmer, EMT, Firefighter, so many other jobs I don't know. He passed away last month, unfortunately, due to a brief but voracious battle with lung cancer.

My paw paw was a fluffer for gay German Soilders, he kept their dicks hard for the Jew woman before they got gassed.

So he was a veteran veteran veterinarian.

Chief master at Arms on the USA Saratoga

Later he was the captain of the presidential yachts.

Marine in Korea, Train conductor afterwards.

From my father side: he scaped from franco's goverment to América and run a few hotels.
From mom side: he was manager in a power plant untill one day decide it would be awesome to steal everyone salary and run off.

Served in the navy during Korean War for some time after, then was a Forman for Paint Department at GM in SoCal before retiring

SS-Sturmann in 36th SS-Dirlewanger, shot a bunch of jews and commies

Fixing and flying in B29's before they were flown by faggots.

Yeah. Or a veteran veterinarian veteran.

Famous quote from him was to my mom, any time she tried to talk to him while he was staring into the distance: "Can't you see I'm THINKING?!"

he had big ears. but fuck, he was an iron worker and a damn good mechanic.

Not my grandfather, but my great uncle. He came back from WWII married his girl and owned a shoe store for far too long. Not until the rat trap burned down, did he actually retire and relax.

But in WWII, he was a captain in the U.S. Army. He didn't talk too much about it. He was in Europe and his unit saw a lot of action. He did tell one story, and it makes me smile to this day.

>Unit was on some high alert for days.
>A young private comes up to my uncle and says "Captain, I've been up for 2 days. Could I please just get a quick nap?"
>My uncle says "Find some dark corner and take 20 minutes."
>Unbeknownst to my uncle, General MacArthur showed up to do a surprise inspection.
>As he was touring the unit, he sees this young private asleep in a dark corner.
>General MacArthur kicks the private, waking him up.
>He screams at him "WHY ARE YOU ASLEEP WHEN THIS UNIT IS ON ALERT?!?!?"
>The private said his captain gave him permission.
>General MacArthur drags the private to his feet and orders him to go find the captain and bring him back.
And, in my uncle's words...
"Aaaand THAT was how I met General MacArthur."

Hell of a great guy. I miss him every day.

Both of them were farmers

airplane mechanic in WWII

he brought back some sexy shots.

i never met him. i know from my father that he was smaller than me... as small as my oldest brother (5'9"), but he was fit. 24" waist. trying to live up to his legacy is tough. 6'4" here and working to cut my shit down. proud to say i can turn a wrench and fix just about anything someone throws me from a shit carburetor to a fucked up *nix box with a floundering service.

Had one that I never met because he died of cancer, he was in the Navy.
Another was just a carpenter
And another that was a trapper/cabin builder that also died of cancer.

>Three grandpas
what

same person here btw.

imgur.com/a/jf7mX for an album of his pics that i digitized.

wonder what the camels mean

weren't supply planes called camels or something?

maybe they're a tally of successful flights or something

The hump. It means they made it back over the Himalayas.

They would bomb Japan and Japanese occupied China from China/Burma/India.

No. Nice guess though!

transgrand

why not with all these other fake words for made up bullshit.

going to bed now. enjoy the album i posted earlier. my grandfather was pretty awesome.

>Dad's side
Ranger that hunts commies in the jungle
>Mom's side
Mechanic for the army, opened his own workshop later on

raping children

Went to Purdue,Scientist for GMC,Chemist, Manager for the Development Sector, Helped create the first airbag, died from a heart attack in work parking lot

He was a gunners mate on a ship during the korean conflict, then he came home and worked on oilfields until he retired. Hard motherfucker.

Scene at 3:12 Alex Jones on tv background dancing with naked cute girls.
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