What was the worst CQ/Staff Duty/EOC you have ever been on?

New Years Eve on Staff Duty....received several calls about soldiers being drunk and disorderly.... Here's the kicker, went home to have a quick dinner with my family, get a hard knock at the door. By the time I got to the door whoever it was, was gone. But I heard a lot of screaming and yelling, I though nothing of it; thought it was kids being kids. About 15 minutes later here comes the MP's asking have I seen two naked individuals running around this area. I looked puzzled trying not to laugh and responded "no I haven't, naked? what happened?." They explained Apparently the wife came home from her shift early and found her husband in bed with another woman. She pulled out her tazer & pepper spray and starting shocking/pepper spraying them both, they got away naked. Imagine if I had answered the door a minute or two faster...I would have been staring two naked people in the face with a mouth full of food.

I am not sure if it was one of the worst, but it was certainly one of the most interesting. I was sitting on Squadron Staff Duty (and luckily with one of the SSG from my platoon). It is somewhere around 0200, and for whatever reason, my SQDN CSM decides to pop his head into the HQ office where we sat. He is in civilian attire. Again it it 0200. I have my feet kicked up, Im watching a movie. When he walked in, I looked at him thinking it was someone either signing out for leave or signing in from leave. He looks right at me and asks "SPC, dont you stand at parade rest when you see your CSM?" And in my young dumb SPC mentality, I responded with "I didnt recognize you, CSM." All the while I never sat up or stood up and went back to watching the movie. To this day, I still wonder why I was not killed on sight.

My worst was my most humiliating, 1975 my self and two male MP got beat up by a Lesbian WAC when we broke up her fight with her girlfriend, the WAC jumped us because we broke up the fight. The three of us tackled her and held her down as more help came.

Had coffee while deployed and it was 2 beer night. ... I got no beer

Staff Duty officer on 9-11. Was also the BN S3. Had to supervise execution of portions of the plan to get Fort Carson to FPCON D. Lots frantic taskings and calls asking "....we there yet....we there yet...we there yet...". Many Young soldiers asking me what I thought would happen next. I told them to get themselves ready because when we figure out who did this, we would be getting payback at a time and place of our choosing.

The worst one I can think of is one time I was on barracks duty with another Cpl. For those of you who don't know, Marines wear their chucks aka service charlies during duty. Well, when a typhoon hits the duty is supposed to change to cammies. Also most of the time when your on shift and a typhoon hits you station shift until the end. It was about 2200 when it started getting bad and we went into TCCOR 1C normally the time to switch to cammies. Well we were waiting for official word from battalion and they couldn't seem to make up their mind about it so for the next 45 mins we changed uniforms 4 times. Eventually that got sorted but come 0800 when we should've been relieved, nobody came to relieve us. By this time we were in TCCOR 1E so the CDO and everyone else in/at battalion couldn't come to the barracks. But we stayed on for another 2 hours when we got the call from battalion that we were in fact supposed to be relieved so we had to make the Marines relieving us get dressed and of course they were hungover from a small typhoon party they had and weren't enthusiastic. While we waited, we got a call from battalion again and they wanted us to police call around the barracks in our flak and Kevlar before getting relieved. So we had to get drenched right before getting relieved and of course when I finally get off and lay down to get some sleep, we went into TCCOR 1R so we had to get accountability. I laid down for 17 mins then had to get up for me to basically say "yes I'm here in the barracks safe and sound"......was an interesting night though. I will say that much

I took my own Red Cross message on staff duty once.

SFC (Join to see) well, I think SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" would remember and "agree" that this has been the worst CQ duty on RP https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/married-e5-being-cq-runner-the-day-before-valentine-s-day hahaha!

When the ball was dropped on the schedule and I didn't get relieved until FOUR HOURS after the end of my shift.

My Company was doing a trench live fire, but for some reason I got stuck in the rear on staff duty. When the radios started going off it was mayhem. I'll never forget that night. After the wire was breached, two Soldiers laid in the prone, feet touching. One pulled security on the trench, the other prepped a grenade. We're trained to cook the grenade in combat, but for training purposes we wouldn't be doing that. All should have gone as planned, but the grenade had a faulty fuse. It detonated immediately after the spoon was released, killing one and seriously wounding the other.

That night and the following day were absolute chaos. Due to all the information flowing through us, we opted not to get relieved, but to wait until it quieted down to facilitate a proper shift change brief. Our 24 hour shift turned in to almost 36 hours.