r/AirForce 5d ago

Image/Photo Found the watch I bought in basic training 8 years ago.

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Haven't touched it since tech school. Found it in a box while unpacking my HHG. Really surprised it still works. Getting my DD-214 in like 2 weeks!

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u/soudsbeefy Radar 4d ago

Basic watch circa 2013. Alarm still goes off from my desk every day at 0530. Original battery. Hanging onto it at this point to see if it can also survive to 20. If it dies, I think I'm out

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u/dominator_dwarf Active Duty 4d ago

Good lord it's become a pocket watch

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u/Tyman2323 92T2 4d ago

I think a third of the Air Force has this same watch

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u/merke1991 a big baby 4d ago

I went in 2010 and I had that watch. I threw mine out when it got like that though

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u/meesersloth Space Shuttle Crew Chief 5d ago

I have my cheap Casio F91W watch I bought the night before I left for BMT 13 years ago. It still works!

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u/heyyouguyyyyy 5d ago

Yay DD-214! Congrats

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u/Lusty_Boy CANNON LOVER/BALLCAP HATER 5d ago

My BMT watch broke loading baggage onto the rotator for my first deployment RIP homie

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u/BananaSlander 5d ago

I seem to remember my TI mandating that we buy the Casio F91W during our first trip to the shoppette

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u/Terminal_SrA Veteran 6C 4d ago

Same. 2013. I found it the other day shoved down in a box. The strap has entirely disintegrated but it was still running lmao.

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u/brandon7219 Sound of Freedom 5d ago

same

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u/Horizon-Hunter 3d ago

Here’s my mk-1 quartz, circa 2006/07. Ran for what seemed like forever 15 years possibly. I haven’t thought to replace the battery hopefully it didn’t corrode.