SSG Kenneth Lanning 628936 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> 2015-04-29T13:55:38-04:00 SSG Kenneth Lanning 628936

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2015-04-29T13:55:38-04:00 2015-04-29T13:55:38-04:00 SSG Kenneth Lanning 628942

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We had a guy try to go a full week without using a cat hole...he was eating three MRE's a day-do the math. By day three we heard him screaming at the woodline, and had to get MEDEVAC'd...good times heh.

2015-04-29T13:56:42-04:00 2015-04-29T13:56:42-04:00 SPC Private RallyPoint Member 628965

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We were at the range down at Indiantown Gap... someone was parking a Humvee near where we grounded our gear. In short, the nameless Soldier parked right on top of my camel back.

2015-04-29T14:03:29-04:00 2015-04-29T14:03:29-04:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 629034

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Was at FT Irwin. There is a snake there, the Green Mojave....very territorial, will chase you. Dude was running with his pants at his knees trying to tug them up to run faster since he was being chased by one. Apparently, he chose the wrong spot to perform his Class 1 download.

2015-04-29T14:22:02-04:00 2015-04-29T14:22:02-04:00 LTJG Private RallyPoint Member 629044

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I wasn't in the field, but I did see a bunch of guys destroy a $300,000 RDSAT dish during a comms training class.

2015-04-29T14:23:43-04:00 2015-04-29T14:23:43-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 629725

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I saw an M1 rolling down the hill crushing trees as the only person on the tank jumped off.

2015-04-29T18:06:40-04:00 2015-04-29T18:06:40-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 629729

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was a spotter tank at night. I watched a cow and the target went up. The target stayed up and the cow went missing.

2015-04-29T18:07:22-04:00 2015-04-29T18:07:22-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 629738

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A Bradley crew was sleeping inside the vehicle when a longhorn inspected the Bradley and had his head stuck in the vehicle. Infantry guys screaming like girls.

2015-04-29T18:10:12-04:00 2015-04-29T18:10:12-04:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 629781

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A big WTF happened when of the of guys in my unit (FT Irwin again) was assigned to field KP. One night, he decided to take a HMMVW back to base in the middle of the night, apparently to hit the shopette or something. He drove away at around Zero Dark 30 whilst the rest of the area were asleep. On his way back, he lost his way, and since he wasn&#39;t driving with lights on, no full illume from the moon, and no NVG, he ended up crashing the vehicle in a waddie. He then hiked it back to the KP area. He must have been close enough because he got back just in the nick of time, since the others were starting to rise up for the day. Needless to say, his collars got lighter in rank and his check got lighter in numbers.

2015-04-29T18:23:01-04:00 2015-04-29T18:23:01-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 629878

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We were in the field for three weeks and we were down to our last two days. Due to moochers and beggars I ran out of cigarettes earlier than I had planned. It was to the point I had turned into a moocher and beggar and was literally having nicotine withdraws bad. As I stood outside our trusted steed, the M113A3, I could smell the taste of nicotine from across the field. I yelled at one of our ace drivers to give me some smokes. He told me that if I got naked and ran to him he would give me a whole pack. I one upped him and maid a loin cloth out of some mine signs and bright ass orange tape, put on my boots and ran the 300 meters over to him to grab my prize. As I am running naked with mine signs covering my man parts I thought to myself, &quot; this is so worth the smoke session that is about to happen&quot;!! As I am about half way the whole company AA is laughing and hollering which grabs the attention of a certain someone wearing the diamond and our OC. I grab the pack of smokes and haul ass back to the 113 as I am freezing. I jump in put my BDUs back on, jump out and light a smoke. As I am basking in my glory and sharing my prize, 1SG and the OC come strolling up. I realize I am about to endure the worse possible pain ever. Instead, 1SG says he is speechless and the OC says that if he ever catches me without my miles gear on again he will kick me out of the Box!!! I said roger and went back to my victory smoke!!!!

2015-04-29T18:55:43-04:00 2015-04-29T18:55:43-04:00 SMSgt Dan Powell 631874

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It had been snowing pretty heavily on Hill AFB, UT and I sent a couple of my troops with paperwork up to the orderly room. On the way back, they took a short cut and they decided to run the six-pack through a nice pile of snow. Problem was, it was actually a pile of gravel! OOPS! The really messed up the truck and our Chief got himself a big chunk of their butts, plus paying for the damage.

2015-04-30T13:42:04-04:00 2015-04-30T13:42:04-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 632675

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We were coming into our AO and off in the distance a was a shithook delivering a 1000lb. water bladder. Our out house was close by, and as the Chinook was coming in, it blew down the tent serving as the out house. A few seconds later, one of our cooks came crawling out from under the tent. He had his white cookie uniform on, but it wasn't white anymore. It had changed to brown. We laughed our butts off.

2015-04-30T19:01:55-04:00 2015-04-30T19:01:55-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 632690

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One afternoon as we're going home(AO) close to the Hong Da river and I saw a pink elephant. I yelled at the pilots to look. When they saw the pink elephant they were laughing. The area we were in has red dirt. So when the elephants roll around in it, they turn pink.

2015-04-30T19:10:43-04:00 2015-04-30T19:10:43-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 632706

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One morning we flew out early. As the sun was rising, way off I could see what looked like a flying rainbow. I thought, what the hell. As we got closer I could see thousands of parakeets, and as they banked right or left, the colors were bouncing off the rising sun. It was one of the most beautiful things I saw in Nam.

2015-04-30T19:15:10-04:00 2015-04-30T19:15:10-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 632746

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One night at Fort Bragg, myself and some friends were visiting with each other, off post, at their home. One of the wives asked us if we wanted some homemade bread. It sounded really good. She didn't know how to make it, so she called her mom to ask her. She put together all the ingredients and put it in the oven. When she thought it was ready, she served it to us. (That's the way wives used to be). One of the buddies was Japanese and we called him Jap. Jap scarfed up most of the bread and after about 30 min. He began groaning and his belly was getting larger and larger like he was pregnant. We took him to the ER on post. Turns out she hadn't let the dough rise long enough so it was rising in Japs tummy. Can you say, pump?

2015-04-30T19:29:25-04:00 2015-04-30T19:29:25-04:00 SPC Christopher Perrien 1164685

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Capt. Shaw( Hohenfels) pulls up in his jeep behind his tank in our company AO and climbs up on it, his jeep driver walks off, and then a few minutes later, tank fires up and the Capt., guiding from the TC position, backs his own tank over his own jeep.

2015-12-10T06:16:14-05:00 2015-12-10T06:16:14-05:00 SPC Christopher Perrien 1164691

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We had a frigate propeller ( big brass thing, 10-12 ft.across, x$100K chunk of metal) delivered on a flatbed to our armor unit in Germany. We were a few 100 miles from the ocean (Mannheim). Anyway, it sat outside our motor pool for a couple weeks.

2015-12-10T06:25:43-05:00 2015-12-10T06:25:43-05:00 Cpl Benjamin Long 1164699

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When I was in Iraq I saw two mules pulling a Datsun pick up truck with 12 Iraqis in the bed...

2015-12-10T06:35:37-05:00 2015-12-10T06:35:37-05:00 SSG Arvel Perry 1331232

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Light humor: Field training in Germany in the late '80s. Me and a soldier are going forward to scope out a spot for an LPOP, and as we near this deadfall, a wild boar charges out and goes right between us. We about pissed ourselves on the spot, and as it's running up the hill toward the platoon, we laugh and start yelling "Wild boar!" to warn them, and everyone ends up standing on top of the Humvees as it acts all rutty and angry, then charges off down the other side. About 10 seconds after it's gone, the LT comes tearing our of his tent with his 9mm yelling "Where is he!?" Too late, sir.<br /><br />One of the weirdest things was during down time while on patrol in Saudi (this after Desert Storm as declared won) we chased a desert fox in our Humvee. It crested a ridge and out of sight for a few seconds, and as we came over the ridge, a large bird flew away from the exact spot the fox had been. No sign of the fox, no holes, nothing. Spookedy.

2016-02-25T14:07:38-05:00 2016-02-25T14:07:38-05:00 CW2 Carl Swanson 1331377

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When we were in Albania, had a Captain from another area sneak into our TOC, he took a shit in the piss tube, but when he left, he dropped his 9mm. The TOC NCO found it and ran the serial number with S4 and found out who it belonged to. The Asst S3 and the FSO about killed the guy.

2016-02-25T14:46:50-05:00 2016-02-25T14:46:50-05:00 SSG Adam Winters 1331908

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was on the QRF team one night in Afghanistan. We received a call from one of the engineer platoons that they got a Buffalo stuck. We were able to get a Hemmit but unfortunately the only operators available were 2 female mechanics that had never been outside the wire. In route, the drivers were instructed MULTIPLE times that they needed to keep pace/distance because they kept loosing the convoy ahead. All of a sudden, the CO yells over the coms that they had detoured off route and were now sitting smack dab in the center of a small village that we purposely avoid and drive by in blackout due to multiple ticks in the past that we had in the area. Realizing their mistake, both females turn the headlights on and start sounding the air horn thinking it will show us where they are at...... All turned out ok with no issues, but SERIOUSLY!? This is how Jessica Lynch incidents happen.......

2016-02-25T17:33:39-05:00 2016-02-25T17:33:39-05:00 TSgt Larry Abernathy 1332987

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have been in the guard/reserves all my military career. One of the funniest and WTF moments I remember was during one of our 2 week training camps at Camp Shelby, MS, back in the late 90's. Our unit had been reorganized from armor to chemical decon, so we were doing training on that. We were able to stay in the barracks every night. The barracks there had no AC, so it was normal for all the windows and doors to be open. Each evening, 2 guys would be sitting at the door drinking beers, and many of us would be playing nickel poker or doing other things. One evening, the guys left to go out for dinner or get more beer, don't remember exactly why. The rest of us were there doing what we normally do, with the door left open. Someone looks up just in time to see a visitor walk in, black and white striped skunk. We all jump up and run out the other end of the barracks, giving him/her complete access to our building. After a minute or 2, one of the guys goes back in and starts yelling at it, but keeping his distance. The skunk eventually walks back out the door, and luckily never sprays anything. After that, we kept the door closed if our 2 guards weren't there.

2016-02-26T01:59:19-05:00 2016-02-26T01:59:19-05:00 PO2 Seth Carron 1333102

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Had a couple runins with flashbangs at camp Shelby, first time I was on watch at the armory sometime around 0100, with an M2 mounted on a Humvee right next to our wire, I'm approaching them from around the corner and all I hear is someone yell "incoming RPG!" and just as I round the corner of the armory truck the flashbag that got dropped next to them went off about 15 feet in front of me, blinding me for a bit. Couple days later I watched an instructor wait for a guy to go into the shitter, wait until he heard him sit down, and drop a flashbangsright next to him. Poor guy come busting out midshit with his pants around his ankles trying to get his vest back in until the instructor told him he was dead, and ended up playing dead with his pants down.

2016-02-26T06:10:00-05:00 2016-02-26T06:10:00-05:00 SSG Jason Cherry 1393420

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My CSM magically disappeared after running around the TOC with no shirt on and howling at the moon like he was a werewolf.

2016-03-21T13:41:47-04:00 2016-03-21T13:41:47-04:00 1SG Harold Piet 1555552

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We deployed from Fort Campbell to play with the marines at camp something in North Carolina. After the occupation, I was set up in the S-4 (BDE) decided to slip down the road and get us a pizza. back without a hitch. next morning the SSG went to do morning maintenance on the truck and the wheel fell off within 5 foot of where I parked it. Imagine if it would have fallen off at the pizza shop lol.

2016-05-24T09:03:10-04:00 2016-05-24T09:03:10-04:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 1556969

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My last deployment I was the BN S4. I got a call one morning from the supply SGT at one of our companies located on FOB Garry Owen. He had "lost" 5 empty conex boxes overnight. I asked him what happened and he said, "Well, sir. They were there last night and when I got up this morning they just weren't there no more." Turns out he was sure they were still there the night before because he had been "entertaining" a female in one of them until 0200 and then when he got up at 0600 they were gone. I still have no idea what happened to them. We're talking 40 foot long, 8'x8' metal conexes, it's not like someone could just pick them up and walk off with them. It would take a crane to load them onto a flatbed and you would have to have 5 trucks, or make 5 trips and it would make a helluva lot of noise. We checked serial numbers on every conex on the FOB in the event they had somehow been moved and nada. The whole FOB was surrounded by T-walls and triple-stacked HESCO with only one entrance/exit. I had been there the day before and seen these conexes so I knew they were there. Multiple witnesses gave sworn statements that the conexes had been there the night before. No breaches in the walls, no one on night shift saw/heard any trucks, the guys at the gate swore no one had entered or left the FOB. 5 conexes simply vanished into thin air. Definitely a WTF moment

2016-05-24T15:15:10-04:00 2016-05-24T15:15:10-04:00 LTC Tim Ellis 1849340

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>During an FTX, our BN S-4 got his meds screwed up by the TMC and we found him that night doing donuts on the parade field in the S-4 Humvee. That guy didn&#39;t know what planet he was on.

2016-08-30T14:12:24-04:00 2016-08-30T14:12:24-04:00 Cpl Benjamin Weston 2690579

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hookers. ( porcupines)...knowing right where we were...for training..... showing up in the night with pop, smokes,beer, and of course sex , and with that sex, so many got the gift that keeps on giving.... showed up on mopeds.... and they knew with in 10 feet where we were.....( going to show you they never changed the training or the location for years)... bahahahahahaha...<br /> And the answer is no......NO way.... did I partake in porcupine meat... did buy a couple packs of cigarettes though....

2017-06-30T12:04:17-04:00 2017-06-30T12:04:17-04:00 SSgt Dee O'Connor 5064606

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Summer camp in middle of night, I accidentally shot my supervisor. Fake bullets. Went over big

2019-09-27T01:56:53-04:00 2019-09-27T01:56:53-04:00 CSM Richard StCyr 5066377

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Female commander shaving

2019-09-27T12:41:15-04:00 2019-09-27T12:41:15-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 6524904

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My first field problem as a tanker at Ft Hood. I found a NVG on the ground. It was one of my tank commanders. I rue the thought if I had not found the NVG.

2020-11-23T18:04:57-05:00 2020-11-23T18:04:57-05:00 CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member 6524947

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A CO expecting to pull a D9 Cat buried to cab out of a sopka. With a 900 series 5 ton wrecker winch. Luckily we consulted, and used our AAVR7 and another AAV with a snatch block. Only after hours of shovel work to break vacuum. Engrs up!

2020-11-23T18:16:56-05:00 2020-11-23T18:16:56-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6526846

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>At Camp Wainwright our Butter Bar, against the advise of our Plt Sgt, took a 113 across a flat swamp valley about a mile across. As soon as he turned a bit (a few hundred yards in) to come around and tell the rest of us it was ok... he sunk in to the belly plate. We tried getting him out for 5 days before an 88 could come to our rescue.

2020-11-24T12:22:39-05:00 2020-11-24T12:22:39-05:00 2015-04-29T13:55:38-04:00