my father, my grandfathers and my great grandfathers served in the army, and most of their forefathers too...
WWII, WWI, german - french war in 1870-71, the napoleonic wars...

Ok now we're thalking

My Father was/is in the Merchant Marine, so he didn't join the military.
My Grandfather was very active in the Norwegian resistance during ww2, and in the Army the rest of his life.
His Brother was a Wing Commander Flying in RAF during WW2, but got shot down at the end of the war.. (was ready to go home, but volunteered for one last mission. Shot down over Holland..)
And their father was in the Army as well, but not his whole life..
And before that??? Don't really know..

Ive had three uncles fight in the vietnam war, but thats about it.

My grand-dad was a surgeon in WWII fighting with the Americans. My other grand-dad (British) was in the RAF during WWII My dad never enlisted nor was he drafted for Vietnam because for one he was a British Citizen (now American) and wasn't living in America at the time :P

You asked for it....We have a compolsery service here so this will take a while...Ilol jsut do my grandfathers and close family....

My grandfather on dads side was in the ETZEL(Irgoon), one of the undergrounds during the mandate(basically a terrorist group...).

My grandfather on moms side was in the British army(A low rank officer in the transportation core) during WWII, then he Joined the Hagana(another underground, not so violent as thwe Irgoon). In 48 he joined the IDF, reached the rank of LTC in the Ammuinition core.

My father was a Radio-Operator, eventually was a commnder of a radio bettalion, at the rank of LTC.

My Mother did alsorts of things, reached rank of LTC.

My parents are divorced, my mommarried a man who was a Colonel in the Armour corps.

Out of my 6 brothers and sisters(5 of them from the step father, and my fathers second marriege), 4 were officers,2 Computer men, 1 MP investigator, 1 Tank instructor).....

Well, this was redicules...

My grandfather served in the Army along with my dad. All of my dad's brothers (four of them) served as well. Three in the Army, and one in the Marine Corps. We still tease him about being the lone marine in the family.

Father was a lifer, 3 tours in Vietnam
Several Uncles in Vietnam.
Both Grandfathers served, one army, one marine(who sailed with admiral Byrd to the Antarctic).
Great Grandfather was a POW in china during ww1
Several ancestors took part in the defense of the Jefferson Barracks Arsenal during the first weeks of the Civil War.
Stepfather served stateside during vietnam. One brother went to West Point, one served in Desert storm, one is a marine who just got back from Iraq, one is an Army Reserve 0-3 who shipped to Iraq in january. I did 5 years in the army. You could say I'm from a military family....

We've had men in the service at least back to the War of 1812, including the American Civil War, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War so far. They've served in the Army, Navy, Air Force (back when it was Army Air Corps), Marine Corps, and even the Merchant Marines. Most however were in the Army.

my grand father, now dead, fought with McArthur in Battan, and later took part in the island hoping campiagns, koria, and Viatnam