Funniest Ft. Irwin story you have?

2014-12-09T16:48:12-05:00

Anything will do; it's a funny place.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 9 at 2014 4:52 PM

2014-12-09T16:52:11-05:00

Three:

1. Setting my M113's engine on fire and then having to work on it for the rest of the rotation in the box.

2. My team leader jumping on top of his vehicle after they got to their first stop and singing "I think we're alone now" as loud as possible.

3. Falling asleep right before a movement and having our PSG have to come back and get us.

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made May 9 at 2015 9:55 PM

2015-05-09T21:55:58-04:00

SSG Steve Small, N of main post, Bde Hill on left, turn left at next road. Go to "Doughnut" at end of road. There used to be a skoshi telephone pole there, until I ran over it w/blackout lites on while trying to stay in the middle of the road.

Response by SGT Anthony Bussing made May 9 at 2015 10:18 PM

2015-05-09T22:18:08-04:00

going to NTC as a Marine tanker from 29 Palms...being given liberty the first night we were there, going to the NCO club, getting trashed...and going to the field the next morning...holy smokes...I was hanging out of the loaders hatch on that vismod all damn day...I loved my tours at NTC...and I loved 29 Palms...I want to move out to that area eventually...

Response by SSG Paul Setterholm made May 10 at 2015 8:39 AM

2015-05-10T08:39:15-04:00

Officers came into the TOC (tactical operations center) and were hungry. I had to go to mess hall at midnight to get them food. I couldn't see(ft. Irwin is blacker than at night) I made it to mess tent,woke the cooks and got a marmite can of pork chops. As I was returning to the TOC I stepped on a rattle snake. The snake struck my boots and I ran like a young Jesse Owens to the TOC. Luckily, the snake didn't pierce the boot.

Sgt major got made at me for something(I forget why) made me did a foxtrot. Irwin is all rock under that sand. It sucked.

We got really old beer cans in a cave. There was a note that said," don't tell sgt Johnson about the beer in one of those tin pull top cans.

Response by SSG Paul Setterholm made May 10 at 2015 8:49 AM

2015-05-10T08:49:58-04:00

We were on a jeep ex. I was driver for a major that was reconing sites. He telling me to drive the cuc-v faster. Driving across the desert for hours it can get hard to see changes in elevation. The ground dropped down and the cuc-v was airborne. The officer calmly said ok let's slow it down a bit.

A convoy was moving fast at night, lead vehicle had headlights on the rest had just the cateyes. An m.p. Major stepped out in the road and tried to stop the convoy. They nearly ran her over.

A tragic story from Irwin. A marine unit was training and left a road guard. He died waiting for someone to come get him.

Response by SPC John Williams made Nov 14 at 2019 6:51 AM

2019-11-14T06:51:21-05:00

1. We were in a convoy and a M1A1 threw a track. In passing I saw two skirts open and in between the the two skirts I saw a soldier sitting on two MRE boxes, one under each butt cheek taking a dump!! Lol!!!!

Response by MAJ Fred Hinton made Nov 14 at 2019 8:48 AM

2019-11-14T08:48:38-05:00

As a brand new Airborne lieutenant, I fell for the Sky Hook story. The XO sent me down to the S4 and told me to bring him a sky hook back, the Supply Sgt sent me back to the Xo told me to tell him that we were all out and when he find one to get him one too. Well needless to say this conversation went back and forward until the Supply Sgt finally told me there is no such thing as a Sky Hook.

Response by SFC Douglas Morrow made Nov 14 at 2019 10:05 AM

2019-11-14T10:05:05-05:00

FT IRWIN
ONE HOT SEPTEMBER DAY CLOSE TO 102 DEGREES OR MORE GO TO BED AT NGHT AND WAKE UP TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW THE NEXT DAY.

Response by Col Mitzi Manning made Nov 14 at 2019 10:14 AM

2019-11-14T10:14:01-05:00

We took a Marine LAAM Battalion to Ft Irwin to shoot 12 HAWK missiles. Long days...hot days...and a quonset hut O club with a juke box. 40 songs...39 twang country songs by very few artists anyone had ever heard of. The 40th song was "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Segar. The S-4 and I dumped every coin we had into the juke box and played Bob Segar about 20 times in a row....until the battalion commander got up, screamed "ENOUGH" and pulled the plug on our music.

Response by SGT Edward Cornett made Nov 17 at 2019 3:02 PM

2019-11-17T15:02:16-05:00

Went to Camp Irwin in Jan. 1951 with 40th Infantry Div for anti-aircraft training. Quarters were left over WW2 squad tents with canvas roof and wood sides. Large chains were attached to each corner of the tents and anchored to the ground. Bright & sunny day at noon, by nightfall it was snowing and 50 mph gusts would left the tents about 6 in. off the ground and then drop them back down suddenly. Chain anchors kept the tents from disappearing into the desert! Didn't get much sleep that night! Tried to fly spotter a mission for artillery practice, but the Cessna would take off vertically due to high winds, so scratched the mission. We were told that the 1st Atom bomb test would occur north of Las Vegas end of January, so a four of us drove our jeep about 30 miles across the desert east of Irwin to a mountain top and saw the brightest light, more than you can imagine, light up the whole Death Vally area when that bomb went off.

Response by 1SG Bill Hardy made Jan 2 at 2020 12:10 AM

2020-01-02T00:10:37-05:00

During our Brigade deployment a .45 Pistol went missing. The order went out to dump all duffel bags and rucksacks. A female MP in my platoon refused to dump her bag or take the lock off. She became loud an belligerent in her protest. The female Platoon Leader took out a Buck knife and cut open a hugh gash. When we shook out her bag a large 12" florescent green dildo fell out in front of God and the Platoon. She was so upset and crying so hard she vomited all over her stuff.

Response by CPL David Thiessen made Jan 2 at 2020 1:03 AM

2020-01-02T01:03:14-05:00

When I was stationed there as a FIST team person, we were told to pick a target for the artillery to fire at. If you have been there, then you know that it is just rocks and sand. And no targets to fire at. So we were told to call in anything so that would something to fire at. We were a little imaginative in ours targets. We called in a aircraft carrier, a tiger tank and a Volkswagen beetle.