Funniest Ft. Irwin story you have?

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.