Posted on Dec 16, 2013
MSgt Ryan Tanner
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Regardless of whether you smoke, at some point in your career you've been vectored into the smoke-pit for a discussion. Keeping OPSEC and personal information protected, what's the craziest discussion/topic you've heard at the smoke pit?
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CSM Mike Maynard
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As a brand new PSG, first day on the job and supervising an extra duty SPC, he thought it pertinent to inform me (he was worried someone else would tell me first) that his wife had two uterus'.

Yep, TMI.
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
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Nice!
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
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My daddy told me of encountering a woman with the same situation. CSM Mike Maynard
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SSG Instructor/Writer
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any story that starts with: 'So there I was, no $h!t....'
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
12 y
Wow! I'm glad this tradition is getting passed on to the younger crowd! HOOAH!
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WO1 Senior Drill Sergeant
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Those are the best ones...
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SSG Instructor/Writer
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I had my fair of those stories while lurking around the smoke pit or BS'ing around the motor pool as a private. Always made for a good laugh and helped pass the time
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SSG Jason Deters
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During the late 90's I was in AIT at Fort Gordon GA, there was an incident during the Sunday morning accountability formation after our first "phase" where we were allowed to go off post. During opening formation my battle buddy is nowhere to be found. A short time later a GSA vehicle drives up on the sidewalk and onto the concrete pad directly in front of our Battalion formation. A full-bird Colonel steps out of the passenger side and opens the rear door. *Pvt Snuffy* steps out in nothing but boxers, white tee, socks and his dog tags carrying his shoes and jeans.
Later that day as I walk out of the barracks, I see my battle buddy smoking with our Drill Sergeant. Obviously curious, since trainees are not allowed to smoke, I walked over to them. As I get close, I hear my battle buddy telling the story from the events of opening formation. Long story short, my battle buddy went home with a woman from the bar on Saturday night. Early Sunday morning, as he gets out of the woman's bed, he walks into the latrine only to find the earlier mentioned Colonel shaving. The woman he went home with turned out to be the Colonel's daughter who was home from college for the summer. As Pvt Snuffy told it, the Col. made Pvt Snuffy stay in his current state of undress at the position of attention while the Col. finished getting ready. He then escorted Pvt Snuffy back to the Company Area, dropping Pvt Snuffy off for formation.
The Drill Sgt apparently thought *Pvt Snuffy* deserved a smoke in exchange for his story.
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
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That is excellent! There are certain levels of respect you just need to give in a non-traditional manner.
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PO2 Josh Taylor
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What is the craziest discussion you've heard/held at the smoke-pit? (Deployed and/or Home-Station)
LTC Program Manager
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I may or may not have known Soldiers that have done the following:

 Shot and ate several geese on the Tikrit palace complex.

Loaded a mess of live chickens in to a HMMWV

Took a combat patrol to a lake just to go swimming




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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
12 y
Those are awesome..... I may have recommended our Sniper teams to shoot stray dogs across the FOB in Iraq to give our guys extra practice AND save our sensor fiber optics they kept chewing up at $900+ a splice....
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In Kirkuk in 03 my MP platoon had the only shotguns so the air force security guys let us use their ATVs to go hunt the dogs on the FOB.
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
12 y
Ha ha! Same place and folks! Just years later! Small world...
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MSG Sr Maintenance Supervisor
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A few drunk Soldiers (while stationed in Germany) boarded a train to Belgium in search of waffles. I may or may not have been one of those Soldiers.
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
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Ok, I'll share one of many. I can't remember the year but I was on a Law Enforcement patrol one night in the Washington D.C. region and there was a Lt General's spouse who was physically indisposed in a compromising position by a Doberman whom she'd apparently felt the need to love a little extra special. They were apparently locked up tighter than a pair of Chinese thumb cuffs and the dog kept biting her neck. We had to bring them to the hospital on a stretcher with a couple blankets over them, they had to put the dog down to "remove the obstruction". All in the line of duty...
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SFC Gene Estep
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No way that sounds like sum B's u made up or jacked off to in your fav Sox!
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Sgt Administrative Clerk
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We nearly got into a fist fight over who would win between Santa Clause and his elves vs Willie Wonka and his Oompa Loompas
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SGT Public Affairs Broadcast Specialist
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Well... I've been party to quite a few conversations that would shock some...

Let's just say I've worked with some folks who were VERY forthcoming about their sex lives...

But just today at the water cooler, our discussion was RISK strategy...
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MSgt Ryan Tanner
MSgt Ryan Tanner
12 y
I hear ya. That always  seems to be a favorite....sometimes discretion IS the better part of valor... RISK strategy...sounds bout as exciting as the wonderful sport of Curling...
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SGT Public Affairs Broadcast Specialist
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it was actually pretty intriguing... especially due to the fact that there have been at least 3 different versions of the game...
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SSgt Michael Cox
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We normally just played Spades or Bones and bitched about the aircrew while doing so.
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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Edited >1 y ago
Field smoke pit at Ft Irwin. We were gathered around and somehow or another the conversation came about on which celebrity you would most want to have sex with. One guy said his big crush and dream was the old 90's talk show host jenny jones. then somehow said convo reared an ugly head and started covering sexual desires and fetishes. Lets just say that the same guy about Jenny Jones won hands down with (and I will leaver certain particulars alone) brought up him and jenny with a very cold clear glass plate. I walked away from that pit right after that.
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