What's the most uncomfortable situation you've experienced in the military?

Not me personally, but my husband is a retired JAG sergeant. In Fort Ord in 1990 a soldier was being court-martialed over a child abuse case in his two-year-old daughter didn't want to take a bath, so the father duct taped her mouth shut and tossed her into the bath water, which was way too hot for her. She was scalded on nearly half her body. The guy simply got a BCD (bad conduct discharge) instead of Fort Leavenworth where he belonged. My husband had to be left alone for about a week after that. It somehow made local news and it's a small wonder people didn't think soldiers are ghouls.

The MOST uncomfortable thing I ever had to do was a JAGMAN investigation for a young LTJG who got himself killed by a BART train, where he got off at the wrong station on the way to see a friend while on liberty, and instead of going back down the stairs and over and up to the other side , jumped down and tried to cross the tracks to jump onto the train, and got caught between the train and the platform.(The BART trains are automated-no conductor/driver>.) I was the SLJO at this command, and I had to identify the body at the coroner's, and investigate what happened, who saw and/or heard anything, etc. and then write statements of fact per the JAG Manual. I know EVERYTHING about the last 20 minutes of this young guy's life. The capper was that while the Navy told the family that the guy died instantly, one of the ladies at the BART office called me at home, anonymously, and told me that the poor kid DIDN'T die right away. He was crushed, but she and her co-workers heard him CRYING. (That still sits with me. A lousy way to die.) I couldn't WAIT to be done with that duty.

A guy from my unit that I went to dive school with embolized on the first day of pool week. He was immediately rushed to the re-compression chamber where the dive docs worked on him until he was stable about 12 hours later. Then they moved him to the hospital. It was about 8pm and I had the duty desk that night. His wife called and asked where he was probably since it was so late. I said "He's stable now and they just moved him to the hospital." She said "hospital?. Oh my God. Kalani, what happened?" I said "Nobody called you when he drowned today?". She started freaking out on the phone so I yelled down the hall, "Senior Chief, you have an urgent call." and handed him the phone. I've never heard so many desperate "Yes Ma'am"s in my life as she chewed him out for not informing her.

All things said, the most uncomfortable situation was being in the pre-"DADT" Navy, and being asked if I was gay. Anyone other than the CPO that asked it, I would have denied it immediately. Unfortunately the CPO that asked was someone that I, out of honor and respect for the man, could not lie to.

Given my performance record and the point that I when I was on Base, or on Ship, I was on duty and I was discreet and circumspect about who I went home or on a date with. At Captain's Mast, they decided that an Honorable Discharge would be appropriate, mostly because I had been truthful about things and had very good evals.

Back when we were first getting widespread networked computers (no CAC) and it was still the wild west when it came to security. I left my terminal open and went to heat up some chow. Came back and started working and I get a call from the 1st Shirt saying that I needed to be in his office "now!". Went in and he started asking me forcefully why I was surfing porn on a government computer. I told him I had no idea what he was taking about. Went back and forth along these lines for a half hour before he let me go. I was pretty pissed about being threatened with an Art 15 for something I had no knowledge of. Found out that while I was gone, a couple of guys had been talking about going to a concert and decided to look it up online. We were in Germany, and instead of the .de at the end of the url they put .com. One was a concert site and one was porn. Go figure. Asshats didn't own up to it till weeks after the incident.

During my first initial interview with a new join from SOI: asked him when he got married, he tells me the day, and then when "they consummated their marriage"

Playing D&D with the unit welcome party, sadly half way thru the game I asked what the acronym ment.
The reply I got was from a bi female PFC, Dungeon's & Dido's.

I was in tech school for the Air Force and on my day off (not in uniform) and I was holding my wife's walking her around were I train. A Tech Sgt screamed that I was not allowed show PDA in public. I shot back that we were married. The then replied, " I do not care." He walked off and I continued to hold my wife's hand. Never saw that NCO again.

Met a young lady at my first duty station and we had gone out a few times. Got a call one morning to report to the Post IG at 1, hurried to the barracks and threw on a clean pressed uniform and my parade boots and reported......seems I was dating his underage daughter, he politely asked me to refrain from coming by again....Thank god for Desert shield....we were gone in a few days after.

Hate to admit this but maybe it will purge it from my memory. Demonstrating firing a LAW to a General and being so nervous i picked up one that had already been fired; it went great till i attempted to fire it! Seriously Awkward moment. I will say the General was very understanding, my teammates not so much.