In honor of Halloween, what are your best military horror stories?

2016-10-27T13:36:26-04:00

Maybe from boot camp or basic training, maybe from a time out in the field, maybe even in the barracks. What's the military horror story that you can never forget?

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2016 1:37 PM

2016-10-27T13:37:41-04:00

The first time I heard "Repeat after me ... I, state your name ..."

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Oct 27 at 2016 1:42 PM

2016-10-27T13:42:06-04:00

Sadly, all my horror stories are best left buried. They come from my first three months in Vietnam administering battle casualties. However, the funniest story I can remember, one that was a "horror" in a sense, was a film of the first tests of Ford's first prototype "Jeep". They claimed it could be air dropped without a pallet. Simply hook four parachute straps to the eye bolts on each wheel hub and kick it out the door. When it hit the ground, the four wheels and axles quickly departed the landing zone, in four different directions, without the Jeep. I guess the engineers at Ford were horrified. We all had a good laugh

Response by SPC Erich Guenther made Oct 27 at 2016 2:05 PM

2016-10-27T14:05:04-04:00

It wasn't really my horror story it was more a comedy for me to watch. It was my 1SG horror story though. So at the 101st Chapter Cases were kind of weird in that they were still treated with some respect because they did their job and pulled their weight when a deployment came along, the commeraderie of the unit during a emergency pulled them back into acting like Soldiers. Never saw this with any other Army unit only the 101st Airborne. Anyways dealing with them in garrison when nothing was going on was murder for the 1SG. They were always getting in trouble and being placed on Extra Duty So the Chapter cases kind of banded together in my Company and called themselves the Low-Lifes and would leave their mark "LL" everywhere. Kind of like a gang. They all had about 4-5 months to go before getting kicked out but they got busy.

So you put them on a detail to paint the 3rd Brigade Commanders Jeep, you would see him drive up after the repaint then drive away and on the back of his jeep trailer worked into the camoflage was a large black "LL". Be cleaning the 1SG office while on CQ and say you bumped into a hanging picture and it fell........behind it, painted on the wall was an "LL". Lift a Container onto a trunk chasis with a forklift. Underneath was a large "LL" painted on the pavement. We were finding "LL"'s everywhere long after they were chaptered and they were still finding them every once in a while when I ETS'd. Some of the locations, like under the Container we really had no clue how they got the mark where they did. That's what happens when you partially trust folks that are up to no good. So if your on Ft. Campbell now and serving with the Rakkasans and see an "LL" somewhere.......thats the story behind it. Still feel bad for the 1SG.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Oct 27 at 2016 2:10 PM

2016-10-27T14:10:11-04:00

Not fit to print here - still bothers me.

Response by PFC Jim Wheeler made Oct 27 at 2016 2:12 PM

2016-10-27T14:12:05-04:00

Once upon a time, a Battalion CSM was walking towards the HQ building on a beautiful spring morning.

Before he ever made it to the door, he saw something that almost caused a heart attack. His jaw dropped as he saw an E4 on the other side of the battalion area WALKING ON HIS GRASS!

Response by CSM Richard StCyr made Oct 27 at 2016 2:31 PM

2016-10-27T14:31:00-04:00

Fort Benning, while acting as OPFOR and having wreaked havoc, devastation and general mayhem upon our sister unit, had the great misfortune of being the slowest guy in the group and getting caught on the exfiltration (run like hell to the pick up point). Was subsequently stripped to my boxers and T shirt and duct taped to a tree where I remained for the rest of the night. While they didn't take my rifle they did take my uniform as proof I had been captured. Very humbling having to walk out of the woods and then across base camp in Kpot, LBE and skivvies. Ah the fun we had........

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2016 3:53 PM

2016-10-27T15:53:51-04:00

I was stationed at Portsmouth naval hospital in Virginia, bldg. 1 used to be the main hosp back during civil war, have been many stories about people hearing the sounds of rattling chains down the hallways, and what looks like blood stains on the walls of the old operating room, there are even wall shackles left over in the holding area

Response by SGT Philip Roncari made Oct 27 at 2016 5:07 PM

2016-10-27T17:07:59-04:00

Getting off the bus 2am pouring rain pitch black night still air sick from prop flight that left Ft. Dix Nov.1965,welcomed by the the most foul mouthed screaming insane cadre ever produced by Uncle Sam and then it got worse ,SFC Smith showed up!

Response by SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth made Oct 27 at 2016 5:29 PM

2016-10-27T17:29:12-04:00

Better left unsaid.

Response by 1SG Al Brown made Oct 27 at 2016 7:02 PM

2016-10-27T19:02:19-04:00

OC duty (Sidewinder Team) at the NTC. Late Halloween night in the box during Force on Force IVO Brown Pass. One of our Platoon OCs was seriously troubled by the thought of ghosts and demons. This particular OC was tasked to get his NVGs on and get in front of the BLUFOR by going around and ahead of them on Alpine Pass. However.....another OC had already gone ahead on that one lane trail, got on top of a big rock in the bend of a corner, striped naked and poured chem light juice all over his body. It took half the night to chase "the victim" down and convince him that he hadn't really seen God.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 28 at 2016 7:35 PM

2016-10-28T19:35:04-04:00

When I was stationed at Camp Schwab in Okinawa, we got finished with a field mission and I was TCing my driver down hill (There was a 5 foot deep split in the middle of the road and our tires for the HMMVW were driving on about maybe half the width of ground on both sides).. The driver in front of us was a notorious for being very reckless and made it down this hill with no problem. When it was our turn we made it about halfway before the road caved in and the truck did a handstand! I looked to the back of the truck (which is now vertical) and quickly realize that a nice big metal chop block is on a course for my head. I quickly move my head just in time and see the chop block hit the windshield, shattering it.

Response by MSgt Richard Randall made Oct 29 at 2016 1:24 PM

2016-10-29T13:24:22-04:00

In the spirit of Halloween…
Middle of the night my teammate, Ken, and I were stringing electronic cabling underneath the Auxiliary Launch Control Support Building at 01-Alpha and 01-Bravo Minuteman ICBM Launch Control Facilities. This was in preparation for E&B (equalization and balance) electronic tests between launch control facilities and the launch facilities (silos) at Vandenberg AFB. I’m under the suspended floor laying on a cable rack with perhaps 14” of clearance above me. All I had was a droplight and flashlight. While Ken, my teammate, was fishing a cable down through the tray I looked over and saw two little beady red eyes looking at me perhaps 18” from my face.

In a very low voice I said, "Ken."

What?

There's a rat down here big as a football.

He laughed and asked, "Does he have a name?"

I dunno, but if he comes any closer I'm going to shit my pants, then I'm going to die, then I'm going to come back and haunt you.

Thankfully, the rat scampered off to wherever rats scamper off too and Ken finally stopped laughing.

Response by SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL made Aug 5 at 2021 10:40 PM

2021-08-05T22:40:28-04:00

Thanks for sharing