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

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!"

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My desk was moving because of an earth quake.

This is definitely wrong.