What's the weirdest thing you've seen while on CQ/Duty?

2016-09-22T00:52:43-04:00

Response by Capt Richard I P. made Sep 22 at 2016 1:04 AM

2016-09-22T01:04:08-04:00

A three way fight between drunk Marines over who owed who for the cab. And a motivated Corporal of the Guard flying past me in his Charlies trying to calm them down 'cause I was about to get to his Marines before he did.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Sep 22 at 2016 1:07 AM

2016-09-22T01:07:45-04:00

When I was the Officer of the Day at Eglin AFB the OD at Pensacola NAS called and said that a civilian brought in a crippled pigeon with a government leg band, and he wanted to know if it was an Air Force bird.

I checked with a couple of projects that I knew about and confirmed that it was indeed an Air Force bird, but the project didn't want it back. They said the civilian could keep it.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 22 at 2016 1:15 AM

2016-09-22T01:15:24-04:00

A drunk drill Sergeant in basic told me not to write letters on my 1 hour fire guard. He snuck up on me and said ' had this been war I could have had my throat cut'. This was when I was a E-4 22 years ago.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 22 at 2016 1:30 AM

2016-09-22T01:30:34-04:00

Well I wasn't on CQ rather I was called by CQ because two of my Soldiers decided to eat a bunch of "magic" mushrooms and wonder around Fort Drum. One of them stripped down to his underwear, wondered through the woods and came out by the main gate where he proceeded to climb onto a girl's car, do some "karate" and then do a flip through her windshield. I had to pick him up in the ER before he went to the MP station.

Response by SPC Christopher Perrien made Sep 22 at 2016 2:14 AM

2016-09-22T02:14:39-04:00

Came back from being downrange (bars in Mannheim,Germany) sitting at CQ Desk(C Co 5/77th Ar Bn Sullivan Barracks 1980's ) talking the CQ Sergeant(Harris) and runner. Up the stairs comes Cpl. Dinova(name change, kind of an odd-ball). Face covered in blood, clumped up in his mustache, but all happy and smiling. We were all puzzled because he looked like he had been beat up;

Well anyway Harris got him talking. And Dinova had just took his re- enlistment bonus and bought a Porsche and finally managed to pick up a chick that night. (Bar Slut from our "Battalion' Bar downtown, Not ugly , but deaf German girl who was there alot). So anyway Dinova being drunk and with Harris egging him on , he gave us all the "juciy" details and we were laughing along with him. Turned out he had eaten this girl out while she was on the rag, but being dark in his car he never noticed and all the blood and stuff caked on his face and moustache. So after he 'bragged" enough, he said "Well I gotta go to bed , C'you all later!" Anyway he headed into the latrine down the hall, by then we were all rolling, and then we heard him puking , I imagine when he saw the mirrors in our latrine. which really had us all rolling worse, think I fell out of the chair I was sitting in laughing so hard. Let's just say, he did not ever liive that one down after that. Classic Dinova

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Sep 22 at 2016 2:30 AM

2016-09-22T02:30:15-04:00

I had to duct tape a drunk POS down to an Army cot. CSM said if he read about one more alcohol incident he would ban drinking in the barracks. After his pissing in the hallways, fighting, puking, and lip to my OIC, I had him go to dinner to not be around for what was about to go down. I called his 1SG and requested a little latitude and was given the green light. Things were a little different back then. His 1SG commended me for not throwing him off the roof, which is what he would have probably done.

Response by SN Kevin Neff made Sep 22 at 2016 5:34 AM

2016-09-22T05:34:41-04:00

Sitting outside the Sub in Jville one day. It's between 2330 and 0000 when one cab pulled up and two sailors came out dragging a 3rd with them. He's being all sailor-like, cursing and whatnot and everyone up top(outside the sub) asked what happened. They said he got too drunk and punched a guy in the face. They take him below and not even 5 minutes later another cab pulls up carrying a few of our officers. One of the officers was holding a makeshift icepack to his jaw and everyone immediately knew who got punched. He was MAD the whole time he was up top he was talking about how he's going to make his life a complete hell until he leaves the command and other stuff. His officer friends were just laughing at him, along with us up top even though we didn't laugh out loud. Guy got NJP'd but he was able to stay in and he cleaned up his act.

Response by SPC Erich Guenther made Sep 22 at 2016 5:56 AM

2016-09-22T05:56:17-04:00

Ha-ha, well actually a humorous and wierd thing. It was West Germany, MP's showed up in their issued OD Green VW Vanagon van. Sliding door opens and they have my soon to be Chaptered roomie in back completely drunk, who had issues with drinking. They bring him in and tell the SGT that was CG, "I believe he belongs to this unit and you need to take care of him, we found him stumbling around just outside the posts front gate". The CQ responds "OK we'll take it from here, thanks for bringing him back". MP is still standing there. CQ says "Well, is there something else I can help you with?". MP says "Well I don't know how to put this but your Soldier relieved himself in the back of my van and I need someone to clean it up". CQ SGT says: "Ohhhhh Noooo, thats part of being an MP, you need to clean that up yourself, I'm not sending any of my men out to clean the inside of your van". So that was probably the most unexpected thing because up until then I felt there wasn't any work detail too dirty for the Infantry MOS to get involved with.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 22 at 2016 8:31 AM

2016-09-22T08:31:31-04:00

Back in the 90's at Knox I was a corporal pulling CQ for a basic training company they were short drill sergeants. When the last fire guard reported in I thought I was pretty much done for the night, but one of the privates came back and asked me if he could go outside and pat the kitty cat????? I get up and walk out to the door and there was a skunk running around outside, asked the young man if he knew what that was, he said a cat, turns out he was from New York City and this was his first time out of the city. I asked him if he watched cartoons, you know Peppie Lu Pew. Got a blank stare, told him that was definitely not a cat but a skunk and you did not want to mess with that.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Sep 22 at 2016 9:31 AM

2016-09-22T09:31:05-04:00

Well personally, I've had people pissing off the roof of the barracks. I've also had the pleasure of being on duty during health and comfort inspections. It's hilarious watching rooms getting tossed.

My absolute favorite though is when the SgtMaj caught the SOG jerking it at the duty desk. So the SgtMaj grabbed the Duty Logbook and wrote in it that he caught the Sgt jerking it on post. You know how much we love our paperwork, so it was hilarious being able to read it in official documentation.

Response by PO3 Sandra Gomke made Sep 22 at 2016 9:47 AM

2016-09-22T09:47:08-04:00

While on Dockmaster Duty at Norfolk Naval Base, a storm had come up. I was enjoying a really good dinner on one of the tugboats in the small craft basin (some how they always had great chow), we got a call about a loose barge. It was swinging around on its one remaining line and bashing one of the civilian boats into the rock sea wall. So, out we went. I manned the radios while the pilot got into position. The only way to reach the camel was from the water. But it was so rough, thanks to the storm, that we were all bobbing around. One minute we could see the barge, the next we couldn't. Well, one of the tugboat crew grabbed a line and jumped off the bow onto the barge. He just disappeared from sight. Then the next wave brought the barge back up and there he was! Crazy SOB, if you ask me. He was still wearing his civvies since he was supposed to be leaving for a date.

Response by SSG Steven Mangus made Sep 22 at 2016 10:11 AM

2016-09-22T10:11:06-04:00

Ack in Hawaii in 1994, when females were newly allowed to come into the barracks, I was making my security checks and came across a line of guys outside one particular room. Well I asked what was going on and the door was opened and low and behold amtrack had made a stop..let's just say the female was well used prior to me getting up there.

Response by CSM Darieus ZaGara made Sep 22 at 2016 10:40 AM

2016-09-22T10:40:45-04:00

I have many, but this photo tells the story, and the crest on the door just sank them all. I expect the CSM will have fun with this.

Response by TSgt George Rogers made Sep 22 at 2016 11:28 AM

2016-09-22T11:28:35-04:00

About 3AM a very VERY well built young female airman in a very VERY tiny bikini came down the stairs passed the dayroom with a 1" rope crisscrossing her chest, wrapping around her waist and trailing back up the stairs. I asked if she was okay and she replied that it was her rope and kept going. About 30' behind her 3 guys were hanging on to the other end of the rope for all they were worth!

Response by Jordan Gaudard made Sep 22 at 2016 1:39 PM

2016-09-22T13:39:43-04:00

I took a CQ shift for someone else in my Company so I could study for the promotion board with my NCO. It was around 9pm and a Soldier walks down to us at the desk and says that the engineers are playing tag with the fire extinguishers. So my NCO calls Bn SD and I go upstairs. Come to find out a 6' man has a 5'5 man pinned up against the wall with a knife to his throat saying he is going to cut him. That's when my NCO called the MPs and BDe SD. BDe SD NCO shows up first, gets everyone out of the barracks and has them take off their shoes and stand in the rocks to tell him the story. One of the boys were crying because this will be his second underage incident. The MPs finally show up and surround the building needing the key to go through all of the rooms. Found a Soldier in the barracks with her 4 year old(Don't remember the exact age, but young) Son living there. It was a pretty great night, I didn't get much studying done after that. However, I did pass the board.

Response by SGT Sean Depuydt made Sep 22 at 2016 1:53 PM

2016-09-22T13:53:25-04:00

Coleman barracks, a slow Sunday, I'm watching traffic (non existent) from my mean green MP van. Out of nowhere comes a smaller hatchback type vehicle driven by some engineer types. No biggie except for the six foot chicken sticking out the back of the hatch. The same six foot chicken a popular chicken shack used for advertising located right outside the front gate. I generally tried to stay on the good side of the 8ID so I just turned them over to their squad leader. A good laugh was had by all after the chicken was returned.

Response by CSM Richard StCyr made Sep 22 at 2016 3:35 PM

2016-09-22T15:35:03-04:00

1982, FT Hunter Liggett, Commanders M151 Jeep on edge in the space between the stairwell and the barracks wall. Not a good night, not a good night at all. Gotta love construction units.

Response by 1SG Bill Farmerie made Sep 22 at 2016 5:38 PM

2016-09-22T17:38:41-04:00

Pulled CQ at Ft Carson. One of the soldiers took a very very large woman into his room after signing her in. About 30 mins later there was a large crashing noise that came from the room. I used the keys and open up the door as I heard help and saw the wooden military bunk broken with the woman on top of the guy looking on in bewilderment

Response by SSG Mark Franzen made Sep 22 at 2016 6:59 PM

2016-09-22T18:59:12-04:00

I was On BN Staff Duty and I had a CQ call me to inform me someone was trying to bite someone so I went over there and it was someone who had been drink mad dog wine so I talked to him and brought him back to the BN and put him on a drunk bunk with no mattress and Face down so if got sick he could throw up in a mop Bucket. SSG MARK A FRANZEN

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 22 at 2016 7:33 PM

2016-09-22T19:33:48-04:00

Seen a Soldier Sleep walk perfectly from her room to the front door and back to her room without waking up, this happened when I was in AIT in FT Lee, VA

Response by PO1 Brian Czarnik made Sep 22 at 2016 9:31 PM

2016-09-22T21:31:53-04:00

While working the Chief of the Day's desk at Charleston Naval Hospital we received a call from the Air Force base in Myrtle Beach. We were told that one of our ambulances had been involved in a minor accident and that when they investigated they found a lot of fireworks in the back. We had not dispatched any ambulances that day. It seems like a couple of young Corpsmen decided it would be a good idea to borrow an ambulance for the day to go to the beach.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 23 at 2016 2:24 PM

2016-09-23T14:24:47-04:00

I found a Soldier's complete medical file in a cabinet when I got bored and cleaned the space. His unit had long been moved out of the building, and ours had been there a few months. The TMC staff looked at me very suspiciously when I turned it into them the next morning.

Response by SSG Kyle Stromgren made Sep 24 at 2016 11:54 PM

2016-09-24T23:54:28-04:00

My son in law was telling me about going and telling one of chapter pending guys to quite down one night when his girlfriend said he should leave them alone or she would call her father LTC so and so. He asked her how he would fell about her being in druggie chapter's room she hammered at him.

Response by Col David Couvillon made Sep 27 at 2016 9:52 AM

2016-09-27T09:52:46-04:00

1. Standing duty in 1975 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the barracks (21 Area, Camp Pendleton) was fraught with anxiety - Tuesdays the KKK held their weekly meeting back of the squad bay; Thursdays the Black Panthers held their weekly meeting...
2. Payday weekends in the same barracks (above) if you caught the duty - despite the rowdiness, drunks, and fights - came with perks; PFC P-----, who ran hookers up from Tijuana and sectioned off part of the squad bay with blankets, gave the duty NCO a freebie.
3. 1st duty weekend at Casual Company, MCRD San Diego, I'm sounding reveille on Monday morning - one guy wasn't stirring, so I went to shake him awake. He was stiff as a board and been dead from overdose all weekend.

Response by PO1 Edward Spencer made Sep 27 at 2016 10:03 AM

2016-09-27T10:03:47-04:00

A female on restriction aboard the ship decided one Friday night that she wanted to go out instead of being stuck on the ship. After the last muster at 2200, she went to her berthing and changed into civilian clothes. I was walking across the hangar bay having just gotten off watch when we all heard a loud, "HEY! STOP!" from one of the pier watches. We all looked to where he was pointing, and there she was, shimmying down a mooring line.
Now, a Nimitz-class carrier is moored to the pier with 12 lines, and she chose the longest and best lit to try and escape from the ship. Of course, security quickly had people at both ends of the line, and she ended up going in the water as she couldn't decide whether to try and continue down the line or go back to the ship.
Her restriction was extended a bit longer...

Response by MSgt Jeff Greene made Sep 27 at 2016 11:06 AM

2016-09-27T11:06:49-04:00

It wasn't CQ duty but while I was a First Sergeant (USAF) I was called one evening by the Security Police to get one of my troops. I asked what he had done and was told we will tell you when you get here. Upon arriving I was told my troop was having his leg put in a cast and would be here shortly. Apparently he and he friend were up on the 3rd floor of my dorm (the ladies floor) and had locked the doors so they could shower with their girl friends. Some of the ladies were not pleased that they couldn't get into the bathroom so they called the SPs. My troop went out the window and dropped to the ground, breaking his ankle. That wasn't bad enough. He hobbled across the street and was in the process of hot wiring a government bus to pull under the window so his buddy didn't have to drop all the way to the ground when he was caught. It took the Commander 30 minutes to stop laughing before I could bring the troop into the office. This was in 1991.

Response by SSG Bob Bravo made Sep 27 at 2016 11:41 AM

2016-09-27T11:41:36-04:00

Sitting at our outdoor CQ desk at about 0245 on I Saturday night I head a scream of Airborne from the third floor balcony and a few seconds later a white rat appeared floating down under a GI Joe parachute

Response by SrA Alvin Cook made Sep 27 at 2016 11:42 AM

2016-09-27T11:42:06-04:00

An airman wlking into the building and urinating in the corner because he thaought he was in the bathroom

Response by SSG Bob Bravo made Sep 27 at 2016 11:55 AM

2016-09-27T11:55:44-04:00

Once on CQ at 0246 on our outside CQ desk I heard a shout of "Airborne" from the 3rd floor balcony just a second later a white rat came floating down under a GI Joe parachute

Response by SrA Alvin Cook made Sep 27 at 2016 11:59 AM

2016-09-27T11:59:17-04:00

This story was not when I was in the Service but a few years ago I was working as a Security Officer in Alaska when I noticed a 6"4' 300lb transvestite making out with a ship Captain. When the "woman" went to the bathroom I said excuse me but do you know that is not a real woman you are being intimate with. His reply was I have been at sea for the last six months, "Don't mess with my fantasy "

Response by SGT James Murphy made Sep 27 at 2016 12:14 PM

2016-09-27T12:14:32-04:00

Ok, this was in 1968 so bear that in mind. Our CO was a first Lt. He just made Capt. came in and requisitioned two trucks to go to the village and pick up party girls.... Ok Top that one!

Response by SPC Wanda Vergara-Yates made Sep 27 at 2016 1:23 PM

2016-09-27T13:23:07-04:00

Halloween time on EAC duty (as a single soldier mom with two daughters under 10), I was making "spiders" with yarn. Since I was at the HQ at COrps, the duty was in the Corps AG's conference room. My "spiders" were spread all around the conference table. The EAC officer was our S-2 that evening and she was commenting and admiring my creativity on a low budget. Wasn't Germany a hoot? Yeahhhhhh. It had its moments.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2016 3:58 PM

2016-09-27T15:58:13-04:00

Had two SPC and a SGT come strolling down the stairs of the barracks building, naked as a jay bird. They were clearly FUBAR, and so the CQNCO asked them what in the hell they were thinking. The only response that we could get from them as we ushered them back to their rooms was "We're off to Battle!! We gotta go kill the hajis!!"

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2016 4:03 PM

2016-09-27T16:03:44-04:00

The airfield I was on in Korea had new IR cameras installed at the duty office in 98. Had ADNCO duty one night and was scrolling thru the cameras and caught a couple doing what couples do when they think they are out of view. Made for some awkward moments the next day or so. But, it was Korea, so like Vegas, it pretty much stayed there.

Response by LTC Trent Klug made Sep 27 at 2016 4:27 PM

2016-09-27T16:27:14-04:00

A newly reported soldier didn't care for the Army (insert shocked face here), and was told he wasnt getting out of his contract.

One night, he determined he would commit suicide using the cord of the floor buffer. He tied the cord around his neck, threw the buffer out the window (his room was on the third floor), sat down facing away from the window. The cord went tight but did not cut off his breathing, and the buffer broke into several pieces after impacting the ground.

Response by SPC Sheila Lewis made Sep 27 at 2016 4:35 PM

2016-09-27T16:35:13-04:00

This is definitely wrong.

Response by SPC Tom Walsh made Sep 27 at 2016 5:30 PM

2016-09-27T17:30:09-04:00

Once found myself copying down a Red Cross message for one of the soldiers in our barracks.

Response by Sgt David Hutchinson made Sep 27 at 2016 6:24 PM

2016-09-27T18:24:11-04:00

I was on duty at Lejeune during hurricane Fran or Bertha, in the CG's building and I had to run the comm O and batteries to the hospital in the armored hummer.... on the way there was this moron running down the main drag in his flack jacket and helmet along with the rest of his PT gear. The Captain made him get in and while he was yelling at the Marine the guy said po was just trying to get my PT in. Keep in mind the wind was gusting at times at that point up to 60 mph

We dropped him at his barracks and the captain gave him a lawful order to stay inside until all clear was given by the duty NCO..... 2 hours later we hear about an ambulance being sent out near those barracks to pick up an unconscious jogger in a flack jacket and helmet

Response by SSG Trevor S. made Sep 28 at 2016 3:38 PM

2016-09-28T15:38:02-04:00

A guy wearing a neck gaiter as a mini skirt, and an LBV as a bustier.

Response by SPC Kenneth Koerperich made Sep 29 at 2016 7:01 AM

2016-09-29T07:01:53-04:00

Late 80's Infantry Units, and before women allowed past DayRoom. Caught SM using a rappel rope to hoist a hooker up to his 3rd floor room.

Another, caught an SM trying to sneak in his future wife, past the HHC CQ, opposite of us, A co.

Many times go out for a smoke & smell that funky weed burning & have to pull H&W's w/ an MP present.

Batt CQ, watching the POG's try & buff the CSM's office. They tore it up...just to piss him off more.

Regt CQ, receiving all the Blotter reports of DD's, drugs, speeding, and fighting. Worst of all knowing over 65% of the names on the list & having to call the Co CO's/1Sgt's to go get their troops.

Response by CWO2 Shelby DuBois made Sep 29 at 2016 12:19 PM

2016-09-29T12:19:34-04:00

While OOD late on a Saturday night...DNCO handed me the phone and said, "Sir, I think you oughta take this.". I wound up talking to a lady who was complaining about hearing so much pilot/tower talk that she couldn't get to sleep. First of all, I explained, our runway was closed for the night and we didn't have any air ops going on that I was aware of. She insisted she was hearing them. I asked if perhaps she was hearing a local civilian airport cross talk. No, she said she'd lived here for years and knows Marines when she hears them. I asked where she was hearing them...on her radio, tv? What?... She said...none of those... "I hear them in my head!". Okay then...I told her I'd see what I can do and to give me a name and number. I gave them to the Chaplain the next AM and he said he'd check on her ... That's all I know...all I want to know.

Response by SGT Lloyd Burge made Sep 30 at 2016 5:00 PM

2016-09-30T17:00:13-04:00

This is a long one so bear with me.
I was assigned to a post with about 1500 soldiers. Three of them female. One of those three was a VERY nice looking medic. She had been complaining for months about constantly being hit on by the men.
One night a group of men were drinking in the barracks. After having too much to drink 2 of the soldiers got into an argument. Soldier 1 said "Bite my dick." Soldier 2 said "Stick it out". Soldier 1 stuck it out, and soldier 2 bit too deep.
Soldier 1 came to me at the CQ desk with his dick out, bleeding all over the floor. I took him to the night duty medic; the only female medic on the post.
She was a PFC. This was a problem well beyond her competency. She called the hospital in Grafenwohr to ask how to deal with it. She was told over the phone what type of thread to use and how to suture the wound.
As she was preparing the needle and thread the soldier made a remark something like "I know you have wanted to see this." The medic then changed thread. She "Accidentally" sewed up the wound with the wrong thread and in the wrong way, while she was at it she "Accidentally" sewed up his urinary tract.
The next day a urologist was called in to preform an emergency circumcision so that the man could pee. The urologist said that this man would piss in pain for about 15 days, but he would never again have a normal sex life.
About the same time the urologist was taking care of this soldier the medic was appealing, and explaining her actions to the most powerful person on the post- The BN CSM's wife.
IF THE BN CSM's WIFE AIN'T HAPPY. NO ONE IS HAPPY. The BN CSM's wife informed the CSM that if any negative action was taken against the medic she would make the CSM's life so miserable that he would have to take the entire BN out for field training until she calmed down. She was not going to calm down until after all of the wives in the Battalion worked together to redecorate the barracks in a gay bathhouse motif.She was also going to suggest to the CG's wife that the CG conduct an unannounced barracks inspection just as the battalion was returning from the field.
The medic received an ARCOM for "performing duties well beyond her competency".
The soldier had it marked in his permanent record that this wound was "Self-inflicted", and therefore not eligible for VA compensation. Eventually he had to be given a private room because every time he had a nocturnal erection he would wake up screaming in pain waking everyone in the room.

Response by PFC Justin Graf made Oct 4 at 2016 3:34 PM

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Was sitting there playing Cod4 on my laptop and i see 2 soldiers come out of the bay. They walked around the desk and i see movement near my face. " hey graf look" i ignored it. " graf.." continued to ignore it " hey graf look at..." and i took my hand off the mouse and hit him. Apparently he was trying to wave his ballsack in my face for some odd reason. bam rightin the ol gibblets. He writed in agony on the floor to a guffaw of laughter crying and laughing himself, stating he deserved the pain.... they dont make enough hand sanitizer sometimes.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 5 at 2016 2:20 PM

2016-10-05T14:20:01-04:00

Roughly 0300 Saturday morning in Fort Gordon, so I'm pretty much just sitting back and checking the occasional returning drunk back into the barracks. All of a sudden I hear screaming from the second floor, and so I run upstairs expecting gawd knows what.

I find the fire guard (scrawny little guy) had decided to curl up with a blanket next to a hallway water fountain and get some sleep instead of staying awake for his shift. Grrrr. The joke was on him though, because one of those returning drunks had mistaken his curled up form for a urinal. (An easy mistake to make, could have happened to anybody, right?)

Cue the screaming. Waking up to urine in the face can't be fun so he freaked out and tried his ineffective damnedest to beat the (much larger) drunk guy to death, while just waking up in a dark hallway. In his panicked state this really just meant that he flailed his piss-drowned blanket and fists around in the dark hallway, managing to damage the water fountain, a fire extinguisher, and scrape his bloody knuckles all over the walls while the drunk guy he apparently missed most of the time just slumped against a wall and started to snore.

So to recap, I walked through the stairwell door into a near pitch black hallway and had to try and calm down a part-rage-part-sobbing Private with a wet blanket still over his shoulders. A Private who had just managed to A) Fall asleep on duty, B) Get pissed on (AND I MEAN DRENCHED), C) Lose a fight with brick walls and industrial steel equipment and finally D) fling droplets of his blood and somebody else's urine in every direction for a good 20 feet.

Good times.

Response by SFC Eric Behm made Jan 4 at 2018 5:50 PM

2018-01-04T17:50:18-05:00

My desk was moving because of an earth quake.

Response by Maj John Bell made May 27 at 2019 10:08 AM

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While serving as the Bn OOD, the staff duty and I looked at each other at the same time and said "Did that sound like rifle fire?" simultaneously. We then answered simultaneously "Yup." It was followed by the sound of several more rounds and breaking windows, on the 2nd floor of the CP. We called the Regimental Guard, and they said they were pretty sure it was coming from the roof of the Regimental Guard shack. That meant the three Battalion OOD's and Staff Duties had to provide covering/suppressing fires to get the Regimental Guard out of The Guard shack. We coordinated a plan by phone and just as were were getting ready to cross the line of departure a drunk long hair came strolling into the CP with an M-14 at sling arms. demanding to be taken into custody.

It appears that he had received a BCD, about 5-6 years earlier and wanted his case reviewed, "RIGHT NOW!"

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made May 27 at 2019 4:13 PM

2019-05-27T16:13:39-04:00

I was a staff duty officer for an armor battalion at Ft Hood. I walked by the barracks at 2100 and found a lot of soldiers outside. I asked if there was a party and they replied the AC was broken. I went inside and it felt like 95 degrees. Next morning I told the Battalion Commander about the broken AC. He looked at me and said WTF am I supposed to do? Later I see him escorting the Division Commander through the barracks. I was so effing proud of him.

Response by CPT Daniel Cox made May 28 at 2019 1:38 AM

2019-05-28T01:38:17-04:00

When I was a young PFC (1975) with 7th ID's 7th MP Co. I was the Junior Charge of Quarters (we also had an NCO as the Senior CQ) it was not what I saw but what I almost saw ... An Article 15 (Captain's Mast for the Navy guys). Our desk sat behind a taller partition than that shown in the picture. If someone walked in, you had to actually stand up to see who had just entered the room. The SGT had left earlier to go play some billiards in the day room so when someone came into the room at 0200 I assumed it was him returning so I did not get up from my solitaire game (real cards, we didn't have PCs back then). A minute or so later I heard an AHMMMM, so I stood up, popped to attention for the young Second Lieutenant Post OOD (Officer of the Day) who accused me of sleeping on duty. I explained to him I had been playing cards and that I had not responded to his entrance was I thought he was my Sr CQ who was out on rounds. The next morning I got called into the 1SGT's office. He told me that the young 2LT wanted me to receive an Article 15 for dereliction of duty and had to explain to him that I hadn't been asleep but just mistook the 2LT's entry for the Sergeants. I think if I had been any sort of screw-up instead of filling the slot of a Squad Leader as a PFC while we were forming the 7th ID, 7th MP's and that they were fast-tracking the paperwork for me to attend The US Military Academy Preparatory School I would have gotten the Non-Judicial Punishment.

Response by SFC Michael D. made May 28 at 2019 8:34 AM

2019-05-28T08:34:23-04:00

I was on CQ while at Drill Sergeant school. I had just gotten prompted to SFC about half way thourgh the course. In walks the CSM with one of the Drill Sergeant instructors. I'm told he is on restriction and can not leave and that I have to keep an eye on him. I asked what he had done so that I'd be comfortable he won't start any carp with me. What he had done was gotten drunk, his neighbor has asked him to keep down the noise and he pulled a gun on his neighbor (post housing). After everyone left, he told be to go up in the barracks and get him a pillow and blanket. He was a real Dick to most of us. He didn't get a pillow or a blanket.

Response by CWO2 Shelby DuBois made May 28 at 2019 10:41 AM

2019-05-28T10:41:22-04:00

Duty officer... got a call from Duty NCO that an ambulance had been dispatched to one of the barracks. He wasn't sure of the details, only that a female Marine was in distress. I arrived shortly after the ambulance and followed a woman's screams and yelling to the room...when I got there I saw a young lady in a rack and two paramedics on either side...She was grimacing in pain and yelling obscenities to them. But the paramedic was trying to figure out what exactly he was dealing with. He said..."Are you injured!".... "Where is the pain?".... then..."Have you been drinking.... DID YOU TAKE A PILL or something?">... At which point the woman suddenly went quiet... raised her head and stared directly into the paramedic's shocked eyes...threw open her covers to reveal a somewhat large belly....and said.."IF I'D HAVE TAKE A PILL I WOULD"NT BE IN THIS MESS NOW WOULD I!!!!!?????". To which the paramedics both said..."Holy crap!!".... all the onlookers burst into laughter...Wound up with a 'they all lived happily ever after' moment and great log entry.

Response by SPC Robert Bobo made Oct 8 at 2019 7:07 PM

2019-10-08T19:07:14-04:00

CQ , yes, a hard core combat staff sgt that lived off base, showed up "totally waisted" about 0200, he was out of his mind, going off , he kicked in the door to a couple new soldiers room, he proceeded to attack and attempt to rape one PFC , what a cluster f___, me and the other guy in the room restrained him and drug him out of the room while that PFC he had assaulted was punching him in the face, a couple of SFC's that served with him in NAM finally showed up , they were pissed, put him in shower and found a empty room to put him in soaking wet, they asked us not to say anything, we didn't, I saw the Staff Sgt later in the day , his face was all jacked up and all he said was I had to much to drink and would be on sick call the rest of the day, he never drank or showed up after hours again

Response by SPC Robert Bobo made Oct 8 at 2019 7:13 PM

2019-10-08T19:13:42-04:00

To add , that Staff Sgt, lost his squad and ended up assigned to the motor pool

Response by CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 9 at 2019 7:35 AM

2019-10-09T07:35:38-04:00

Tracked vehicle Maint Officer coming up out of a creek leaving Camp Barrett (TBS), after he ran his van into it.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Aug 27 at 2022 5:29 PM

2022-08-27T17:29:44-04:00

This is not bizarre. I was an armor PL at Ft Hood and had staff duty one night in the middle of the summer. I went to the barracks around 2200 hours and saw a bunch of soldiers milling around outside. I asked if there was a party to which a soldier replied the AC is broken. I went into the barracks and the temperature was a good 90 degrees. I told the battalion commander about his soldiers. He looked me in the eyes and said WTF am I supposed to do? I was taken aback. The following day I saw him leading the Division Commander into the barracks. That's when I knew he cared about his soldiers, and I respected him for that. He would eventually become a mentor to me.