SFC Private RallyPoint Member 173136 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Horror Stories: We all have them. Most are myth, a few are fact, and a few get repeated so often that we know the person who is telling the story is full of it - because while they claim it was a story they personally witnessed, we all know it was us who really "witnessed" it - like the story about the guy who ties the wrong end of the power cord to a buffer around his neck, and then throws it out the window of the third floor of the barracks... Yeah - I saw it... I swear! <br /><br />So, here is where you can post those stories that are just too whacked out to not be true. Have at it (My first one will follow below). <br /><br />Also, if possible, provide a lesson learned from your story! 2014-07-08T12:13:45-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 173136

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Horror Stories: We all have them. Most are myth, a few are fact, and a few get repeated so often that we know the person who is telling the story is full of it - because while they claim it was a story they personally witnessed, we all know it was us who really "witnessed" it - like the story about the guy who ties the wrong end of the power cord to a buffer around his neck, and then throws it out the window of the third floor of the barracks... Yeah - I saw it... I swear! <br /><br />So, here is where you can post those stories that are just too whacked out to not be true. Have at it (My first one will follow below). <br /><br />Also, if possible, provide a lesson learned from your story!

2014-07-08T12:13:45-04:00 2014-07-08T12:13:45-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 173156

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Here's mine: During a hot July sometime in the 90's, we went to the field for a 2x week FTX (Field Training Exercise). We had a guy (a SGT) in the company who figured he could go the whole two weeks without bathing or changing his underwear (he liked to wear briefs - it will become clear how I know this shortly). <br /><br />As we head into the 2nd week, I am woken up at about 5 am to the sounds of the most horrible screaming I'd ever heard - it sounded like someone was being murdered.<br /><br />The entire company comes running out, and we discover the above mentioned Sergeant, lying on the ground outside the door of a porta-john, with his pants and underwear around his ankles, holding his bloody crotch.<br /><br />It seems that what happened is this: He had gone a whole week without needing to take a crap - thanks to our wonderful MREs (and I especially suspect the cheese - since this particular individual would trade anything for the cheese in the MREs). Anyway, he never dropped or changed his underwear that whole week. <br /><br />Because of the heat, he basically was stewing his scrotum (trying to be polite here) in salty sweat. When he finally went to the porta-john to actually go #2, his scrotum had stuck to his underwear, and when he pulled the briefs down, most of the outer layer of skin and hair pulled off... <br /><br />Lesson Learned: Wear boxers or go commando, if you wear underwear, change it daily, and lastly: wash your private parts daily - especially areas that don't get exposed to air a lot.

2014-07-08T12:31:18-04:00 2014-07-08T12:31:18-04:00 1LT Nick Kidwell 211662

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I served under the only Field Grade to be accused of aiding the enemy in the duration of OIF. True story.

2014-08-21T14:14:57-04:00 2014-08-21T14:14:57-04:00 SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member 213364

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was recently talking to a MAJ in my shop about our family history in the military. He proudly showed me a pair off ID TAGS that where given to him by his father. I noticed the edge of the tags had a corner cut away. I asked him about this and he proudly schooled me on how it was used on deceased soldiers on the battlefield to lodge between there teeth for identification or something to that effect. <br /><br />After being mortified by his story, I decided to look into it. Turns out that it was just a part of the older production process and the story was an old wise tale. I pointed out what I found and he was super disappointed. He looked like he just found out there was no Santa Claus. He then started second guessing everything his dad ever told him.Yikes!

2014-08-22T17:17:52-04:00 2014-08-22T17:17:52-04:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 213770

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="206248" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/206248-37f-psychological-operations-specialist">SFC Private RallyPoint Member</a> I saw bigfoot on a UFO!!!

2014-08-22T22:52:01-04:00 2014-08-22T22:52:01-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 316666

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not really a "horror" story, but more like a classic initiation story.<br /><br />When I first got to the platoon I was in the motorpool for one of my first maintenance Mondays. One of the E-5's told the brand new Privates to check the diesel. You know, to make sure it hadn't gone bad from us not using our Strykers for so long.<br /><br />How do I do that, sergeant?<br /><br />Just open the gas cap and smell it, dumbass. Does it smell normal or expired? If it smells shitty we may have to drain it.<br /><br />So naturally they smelled the diesel and it smelled normal. Some of us had trouble keeping a straight face.<br /><br />Fast forward about 3 months and one of the same privates was told to take an exhaust sample to the mechanics. He actually did it... big plastic garbage bag and all. Never thought I'd see the day.

2014-11-08T06:41:28-05:00 2014-11-08T06:41:28-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 318477

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A story from one of my former NCOs, as a lesson on the importance of Barracks Inspections:<br /><br />"So it had been about a month since I had a married Soldier moved into the barracks in Germany. He and his spouse were having marital issues, and we put him in the barracks until she can move back to the States. We noticed that, since the split happened, he had become more and more distant, his BDUs were less-than-standard, etc. So, we go check his room out and it is a disaster area. The bathroom was disgusting, there was moldy food in the fridge, and laundry obviously wasn't getting done. The whole time my battle and I were in there, we kept smelling something awful, but we couldn't put our finger on it. When we asked him if there were any problems with the room, he said, 'the toilet doesn't work.' We are checking around all over to find the source of the smell, knowing that dirty laundry and moldy food can't be the sole source of this nastiness. Finally, we check the drawers under his bed and find PX bags filled with defecation*. Yes, this guy was pooping into bags rather than calling in a work order on the toilet. A GI party ensued, we got his toilet fixed, and we checked on him twice a day until he PCSd 3 months later."<br /><br />*he did not use the word defecation, but I used that in place of the other word.

2014-11-09T12:35:38-05:00 2014-11-09T12:35:38-05:00 SSG(P) Matthew Bisbee 411218

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>While out in the field at Camp Ripley, a LTC stopped by our site and used the porta-potty. When she came out, she complimented the thoughtfulness of the designer of the porta-potty for installing a cradle to hold her LBE while she used the facilities. We couldn't figure out what she was talking about and asked her to show us this cradle. She rolled her eyes and pointed to the urinal basin. It took a lot of professionalism not to laugh in her face when we told her what the "cradle" was really for.

2015-01-10T13:00:43-05:00 2015-01-10T13:00:43-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 478777

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It has been years. My friend who was a MP told me about all these haunted spots at Schofield. People would hear strange noises in the barracks and doors would be opened on their own. When he was doing patrol at night, he would see shadowy figures and weird occurrences around the abandoned stable and elementary school up on a hill. Since I have not been to the base, I don&#39;t really know where he was talking about.

2015-02-16T00:18:12-05:00 2015-02-16T00:18:12-05:00 2014-07-08T12:13:45-04:00