What is the funniest or most remarkable thing you saw at a unit function?

CPT Joseph K Murdock — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:13:18 -0400

I had a rather large company at 200. We executed our company party in a fine dining room. The last event of the evening was karaoke gong. Each platoon and individuals were asked to perform. It got so vicious that they were booing performers before they even started. First place was $200 to the only who could sing worth a damn.

Response by SGT Paul Mackay made Apr 22 at 2016 8:03 PM

SGT Paul Mackay — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:03:05 -0400

we wasn't to have party,s or any two people alone because co thought we were planning something against him and would punish anyone who talked to another unit member.

Response by CSM Darieus ZaGara made Apr 23 at 2016 5:01 AM

CSM Darieus ZaGara — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 05:01:06 -0400

(1981) Tossing Buffalo Chips at an organizational day (athletic event).

Response by SGT Larry Prentice made Apr 23 at 2016 5:39 AM

SGT Larry Prentice — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 05:39:59 -0400

We had the CG come to a company Christmas party...we had a Yankee swap...one of the "gifts" was a XXLARGE pair of female underwear that he got stuck with. We all had a pretty good laugh at the CGs expense.

Response by CPT Joseph K Murdock made Apr 23 at 2016 3:00 PM

CPT Joseph K Murdock — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:00:43 -0400

At one of the Christmas Parties a young Specialist read a poem for us. It was about a boy and his father. Then the poem went dark as the son watched his father get killed, blood splattered everywhere, his soul escaping from the earth. We looked at him speechless and you could hear a pin drop. I pulled his NCO and the SPC4 aside and told them there are appropriate times for somethings, but it was not appropriate for a Christmas party. I took some of the blame for not screening the Christmas Poem.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2016 4:38 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:38:06 -0400

The Regimental Commander get funny drunk at a Regimental Call.

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2016 4:53 PM

Capt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:53:22 -0400

At a going away dinner the commander introduced the guest of honor by saying he had missed the activities the night before because his wife was having their baby. George responded by saying "I didn't have anything to do with that." The room bust out in laughter before he realized what he had just said.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2016 7:21 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:21:21 -0400

I think the best I've seen was too recent to air publicly

Response by MCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2016 3:45 AM

MCPO Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 03:45:45 -0400

I recall a "Donate to Pie a Sergeant" event - raffle off a chance to push a cream pie into the face of your "favorite" NCO. This guy jumps up and screams, "TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!" He chose his target (a real butt-head of an E-5), who sat in a chair to be pied. The guy reared back and BLASTED the Sergeant in the face. Ended up breaking his nose, knocked out a tooth, and embedded whipped cream so far up the guy's sinuses that he got one hell of an infection. The Specialist was taken away by the MPs...

And that night, two of my buddies died in a DWI car wreck - after drinking beer provided by kegs bought by the CO.

Not a good event.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Apr 27 at 2016 12:33 PM

Cpl Justin Goolsby — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:33:51 -0400

Well at the Mess Night I just attended, I did have the pleasure of seeing a Marine sing the "I'm a little teapot" song.

Response by Cpl Glynis Sakowicz made May 26 at 2016 9:17 AM

Cpl Glynis Sakowicz — Thu, 26 May 2016 09:17:04 -0400

Unit parties were always the bane of my existence. Once, many, many years ago, after a really good result on an IG, our CO decided we should have a PARTY, in true North Carolina Style. This of course, meant a barbacue with pork.
Since a whole pig takes at least a day to cook for the best taste apparently, some of us were assigned to pig duty, in the middle of a park... in a forest... in the middle of the night. Insert annoyed Lance Corporal muttering bad words and sitting beside sizzling pig in the darkness, ignoring the wildlife that kept coming out to investigate the smell.
Somewhere around three in the morning, said pig exploded. I mean, blew open the smoker, creating a little mushroom cloud of pork, rice and sparks that had yours truly diving for cover like a well trained Marine.
Picture it... four hours until the CO shows up, there is pig and rice raining down from the sky, creating a happy, loud, and shockingly large group of birds that descended upon me like a bad remake of a horror film, causing me to squeal like a girl and hide in my car. In these days of Pre-cell-phone, I had no options but to stay there and take what was coming... which I did.
Apparently, I must have looked like I'd been thru something horrible, because no one asked about the pig, they put blankets round me, kept shoving coffee mugs into my hands, and demanding I sit before I collapse. Amazing what explosive food will do to a person's nerves...
Turns out, the pig was "prepped" by other Marines who'd been told to fill the body cavity with rice and sew it up. No one thought to explain to them to soak the rice first, or that each tiny grain would expand to four times its size... or the use of para cord for sewing the pig back together once they had stuffed it.
End result was a pizza party in the middle of the forest, with seagulls, owls, and countless other birds swooping in to gather up pieces of pig and rice that festooned the trees around us, and a good time was had by all.
I still hate 'command attendance' but I have to admit, that was one for the record book.