It is helpful to provide name, rank at the time, unit assigned or attached to, job function, location and year when and where you served along with a short message (looking for someone, have a question, or other) in the Identifier portion. You can simply be a friend but we do ask so that we have enough information to make an intelligent decision about giving you access to the message board. (We have had a lot of spammers - so that is why we are doing this.)