Your most embarrasing moment?

I was on a BN hike on the side of the hill. We're still "technically" in Camp Horno, as we can look to our right and see the camp (we're maybe 30~ mins into the hike). One of the guys in front of me does a weird adjustment thing with his gear, and starts to slip. I pull him into the hill. I overcompensate, and end up pulling myself "off" the hill.

I fall off the side of a mountain. End up sliding about 40-50 feet down the side of the stupid hill. Completely rip open the side of my cammies, and feel like a d#$% fool. Entire BN is stopped, Company Gunny yelling down for me to stay put and not move.

They run organize a squad, a few docs, and some "leadership" to go get me, and the rest of the BN heads on it's way. I'm yelling up that "I'm fine" and the Gunny is yelling "Don't you f#$% move til we check you out!"

Three hours later, I've got everyone who has half an ounce of silver on their collar (Company Commander, BN CO, Regt CO) in the Camp at BAS, checking in on me. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated it, but it was my own fault.

Probably my biggest was a "Stupid LT" trick that I pulled during my first rotation (and only) as ammo detail. It was myself (1LT), a 2LT, and a SGT. The SGT said she'd done the ammo details before, so we figured she'd have the best grasp on things. So, we asked what worked best. "Ok...so first let's go ahead and open up the ammo so we can load faster without pausing to keep cutting boxes." (*cue readers' synchronized facepalms*)

So we have things opened up, figuring ammo for the qual range was still in the Humvee. The MSG (Range NCOIC) comes out and goes "Ok, so how are things coming along?" I chime in "So, we've got the boxes open to help load the ammo faster and..." At this point, he interrupts and says "Which boxes?" "Uhhh........the boxes in here...the ones we load the magazines with bullets from?" At this point his jaw drops and I see the look....you know the look. "How many boxes did you open?" Ahhhhh crap. I know where we are going now. "Umm....all of them?"

It is at this moment that I discover that this had ALL of the zero range AND qualification range ammo, plus they had ordered extra to ensure that everyone had the chance to qualify. So for an estimated 110 people to qualify, we now had to expend 16,000 rounds of 5.56 ball ammo. After everyone (except one person) qualified, people were told to grab 6-8 30-round magazines and assume their firing positions. Burst mode. Don't aim. We aren't authorized night fire. Please don't aim. Commence firing.

At one point, the tower says "Cease fire, cease fi--" *POW* "I SAID CEASE FIRE DAMNIT!!" At this moment, the lane safety is waving the green paddle. The Soldier's barrel had gotten so hot from the firing that the rounds had cooked off in the barrel despite being safed at tower instruction.

Additionally, all of us in the detail of course loaded every round. By the end of the day, our fingers were black, and then we got back to the barracks to clean rifles until 0230 the following day.

Moral of the story: Don't put inexperienced Soldiers on ammo detail without ensuring that they FULLY understand "Handling of Army ammunition"

Moral #2: Don't open all the freaking ammo. You can't return it once it's open.
v/r,
CPT Butler

I was stationed at Camp Shelby in 2013, NCOIC of Immunizations and was in charge of giving the medical brief for SRP to all deploying Soldiers... We ran out of medical packets (the section in charge of the packets apparently miscounted the box by almost 100) for over 600 infantry soldiers coming from Guam... So while my specialist ran back to our office to get more I decided to go ahead and start the brief and not waste time.... So in my nice loud voice I in the auditorium/theater said " for those that are waiting on packets just go ahead and listen and you can get off your buddy later"... Ironically the SHARPS/EO brief was right after my brief....