Posted on Apr 8, 2024
What's the most ironic task you ever had to complete for your unit?
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Mine might be cleaning one, singular rock. My friend and I had to thoroughly wash and scrub the company "rock". This was a 500 lbs. boulder that had the company insigina on it. Command team brought it to Afghanistan. So, of course, we had to make sure it was clean and prepped for customs (Europe - Germany) before we put that sucker back in the connex for transport. Ironic, stupid, wasteful - pretty much all around foolish.
Posted 24 d ago
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Posted 24 d ago
We had this go on daily at Officers Training School in the 1970s....the rock got painted with the squadron colors and stayed that way for 24 hours until another squadron got to it...and then we had to salute the damned thing...
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Posted 24 d ago
Alleged to have been involved in scaling the 34' tower @ Zero Dark Too Early during ground week @ BAC @ Fort McCoy and affixing a makeshift California flag and a sign that stating: "Surf the 34' Wave." At the AM formation, said performance art provided all the other candidates with a well-received chuckle and moral boost to help jump-start the day's training. Ironic that the Black Hats felt otherwise and ordered everyone from California to fall out, remove the display and report to the gig pit for some *quality time." AATW!
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Posted 24 d ago
I was commanding a Finance Unit and we got hit hard with Spring Cleanup. I had no soldiers in the office, so I decided to do Spring Cleanup with the soldiers. I also liked to roll up my sleeves and get dirty with the soldiers. I was the weed whacking guy and it threw a rock into a soldier's vehicle as he was passing by which broke a side window. I told him to contact base claims office. A couple weeks later I get a call from some civilian asking who I was and went over the claim with me. I could hear it in her voice that she was having a hard time understanding and grasping a CPT was weed whacking during Spring Cleanup. lol
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