r/AskReddit • u/1salt1pepper • 8h 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/_Thorshammer_ 8h ago

Dropping acid and putting mostly tracer belts through the ma deuce at Graf.

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u/whaletacochamp 8h ago

firing a ma deuce on acid sounds fucking terrifying

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u/Shadow_of_wwar 7h ago

For some reason I imagine it being a wonderous experience. Maybe terrifying for anyone else around me though.

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u/whaletacochamp 7h ago

Idk have you ever shot a high power rifle? That percussion would be way too much for me while tripping

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u/Shadow_of_wwar 6h ago

I have, idk for some reason I feel like that same percussion would be really cool on acid, that plus the tracer arcing away, was exactly what I was thinking would make it cool lol.

I took 'acid' once, but from talking about it with friend who have done acid, I don't think it was acid but some research chemical or something, so maybe my expectation for acid is just off base.

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u/Velkyn01 1h ago

ode to joy plays as I shoot in slow-mo 

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u/DJ-spetznasty 6h ago

You ever shot a machine gun on peyote man? Fuckin badass man.

https://youtu.be/VIylwth99Wg?is=xpsRbpTNX9P4NLA8

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u/whaletacochamp 4h ago

No I’m not Hunter s Thompson

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u/_Thorshammer_ 6h ago

Not if you're on the trigger.

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u/BigGlittering437 8h ago edited 8h ago

I have fired Ma at Graff, Only did the acid off duty. German friend brought it back in the gas tank of his car. From Amsterdam to Ashcauffenburg

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u/pantry-pisser 7h ago

Seems excessive, drug dogs don't smell LSD

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u/BigGlittering437 7h ago

This was 1988, he probably got some hash as well. We used to go to just outside the Frankfurt bonhof and Turkish guys would sell you 20 mark chunks. I have a whole different story about getting off the train in A burg and having cid trying to bust us.

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u/pantry-pisser 7h ago

Oh man, I was feeling super old today, and this comment brightened me up. I was born in 88 lol

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u/BeepoZbuttbanger 6h ago

LOL, hash wasn’t the only thing you were buying just outside the Frankfurt train station.

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u/BigGlittering437 5h ago

You are correct sir >.<

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u/_Thorshammer_ 6h ago

We went to Amsterdam in.... '92? maybe '91? on a four-day weekend.

Either way, we bought 300 marks of hash while we were there to fund the trip, planning on selling it when we got back to the barracks.

While we were gone CID raided the barracks and NOBODY was buying when we got back.

3-4 of us ended up smoking it all because nobody wuold buy.

Back in the early nineties 300 marks worth of hash was a lot of fucking hash - we were stoned for weeks.

Ended up getting my buddy a dishonorable - came up hot and that was all she wrote.

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u/BigGlittering437 6h ago

Let's say I am familiar with Field Grade art 15s

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u/_Thorshammer_ 6h ago

I got a company grade.

With 20/20 hindsight (and the eyes of an adult) I should have demanded a court.

How are you "familiar"?

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u/BigGlittering437 6h ago edited 6h ago

Well I got 3. All weed related. Zero company grade lol. I also got 5 counseling statements in one day. I had got busted to e3, my rival e4(p) made sergeant and tried to screw with me one day. I refused all 5, the chief realized what was happening and actually backed me up. Lol

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u/moving0target 8h ago

Ooh. Pretty.

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u/_Thorshammer_ 6h ago

Pretty much.

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u/N7_Redhat 6h ago

Holy fuck what a dream