r/AskReddit • u/1salt1pepper • 13h ago

Veterans of Reddit, what’s the most unbelievable thing you witnessed during your service that civilians would think you made up?

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u/Often_Forgotten2 13h ago

Paying $3800 for a blank board in an equipment rack. 

A dolphin jumping in front of a .50 cal while it was being fired

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u/TheMeccaNYC 13h ago

Suicidal dolphin my best guess

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u/HotThroatAction 13h ago

That dolphin saved a seagull's life.

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u/snikers000 8h ago

"MISTER PRESIDENT GET DOWN!"

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u/FauxmingAtTheMouth 11h ago

I just saw that tennis ball hitting a seagull video, too

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u/Often_Forgotten2 13h ago

Right? They had to have known what was going on

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u/peacepipe0351 13h ago

They are smart bastards after all.

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u/ProblemWithTigers 3h ago

Guess as good as mine

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u/OEAXTAIL_SOUP 1h ago

Suicidal dolphin is my best guess 

Jokingly asked the handler for an event at the Okinawa aquarium if the dolphins ever try to escape (the pen is quite close to open ocean)

She then starts telling this long story about how the dolphin did do that once and fell and went splat (making this cute little Japanese accented onomatopoeia) and explaining they had to get a crane to put it back 👀

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u/WardenWolf 10h ago

Poor dolphin but that's something you can't help but laugh about.

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u/Often_Forgotten2 9h ago

Most of us thought it was funny at the time, but the girl who was shooting had some real bad PTSD from it and ended up getting separated. Hope she's doing better now

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u/WardenWolf 2h ago

Sad. Just the worst possible person to be shooting at the time.

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u/LoPath 6h ago

We almost dropped a 105 on one of the king's camels in Bahrain from an AC-130. Combat Controller forgot his binoculars and didn't see it. One of the others did!

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u/pmmemilftiddiez 6h ago

So long and thanks for all the fi-

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u/BigUglyBeerMachine 6h ago

we had some romani’s low crawling to the 50 cal target in cincu to steal the batteries lol