Posted on Jul 9, 2014
What was one of the wildest things you saw in your unit?
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On board the ship, underway, I was in line at the forward mess deck, getting chow. There was some kind of Marine drill underway, but it didn't involve us Sailors. We heard the stomping of boots running up the main passageway, with the front Marine yelling, "Marine Detachment coming through, everyone up against the bulkheads!" We quickly hugged the bulkhead, when I noticed an Ensign coming down a ladder opposite of me. I saw that the Marines were roughly 20 yards away, then watched the Ensign step into the passageway, yelling and ordering the Marines to halt! Without missing a step, the first Marine butt-stroked the Ensign across the forehead with his shotgun. Every Marine in that squad stepped on to the poor Ensign's chest as they ran by. After the Marines departed the space, a few of us knelt to check out this seriously effed-up young man. From what I saw the Ensign suffered a huge 4-inch gash from his eyebrow into his hairline and what seemed like a flail chest. Medical was on scene within a minute and they quickly carted the guy away. Never saw that Ensign again. This happened 25 years ago, and I can still see it perfectly in slow motion.
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Maybe not the wildest, but one of the funniest - I was walking with a Navy O-4 when a rocket went maybe 20-30 feet over our head. With the sound of the "zip" he pulled his M9, chambered, and was about to start shooting up into the air at where the rocket passed by. Luckily our NCO pulled his arms down before he shot and instructed him about the futility of attempting to shoot down rockets.
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So there we were, in the wild crazy desert that would be called Anbar Province back in OIF1. I was a young Captain assigned as the Regimental Nurse to 3ACR. Back then, we didn't have up-armored HMMWVs. All we had were no-skin 2 door and 4 door variants. Feeling kind of naked in the Wild West of Iraq, our industrious troopers took it upon themselves to find field expedient ways to upgun our essentially unarmed vehicles. One of the most interesting, orginal (and facepalm worthy) was when one of the CW4s in our AVIM troop took a tripoded M2HB mounted it to the top of the roll bar and windshield of his 2 door cargo HMMWV, and then ratchet-strapped it down. I asked him if he had test fired it to see if it would stay on, he looked at me, gave me a wink and said "Of course I did, sir...." I swear to God those days were something akin to Mad Max and the Road Warrior. If I had seen a soldier running around with a mohawk and spiked shoulder pads I wouldn't have blinked twice.
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A Naked Chem Light race. I was pretty much in shock for most of it. First each platoon pays an entry fee to have a soldier compete. The unit will go to a remote location in the woods where that is a good opening. They they will cut open chem lights and pour all the liquid into a container. Each runner gets a color. Then they strip down to their boots and they are covered in chem light juice. And off they run in the dark. They have to be fast due to the chem light juice leaving chemical burns if it is left on too long.
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