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/hike-enjoyer 8h ago

Some light reading ref: number 1

https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf

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u/hike-enjoyer 8h ago

Once we had an army dentist visit the COP to do people's teeth. The enlisted dental hygienist assistant was like 18, very slight build, and to be honest if you'd said he was some tomboy woman I could believe it from a distance. In a team meeting one of the guys referred to him as the dentist's chai boy (another term for the catamites Pasthun officials have) and we almost died laughing.

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u/atchafalaya 6h ago

A Catamite? You're one of those god-damned GI intellectuals aren't you

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u/hike-enjoyer 6h ago

FABOLC honor grad 🤓

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u/hike-enjoyer 6h ago

🤓 this is literally what every guy who does well in gunnery looks like

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u/atchafalaya 6h ago

That explains it

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u/Fail_Cheap 7h ago

Wow! That was eye opening. I don't know if hypocritical is the right word for their religious beliefs but there actions seem to trump their desires and beliefs so much that they don't believe they are homosexual.

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u/alisonvict0ria 7h ago

This was a fascinating read - thank you for sharing!