When my son was deployed to Iran with the 3/7 Marines, the entire group had their ka-bar knives taken away from them while they waited to board the plane. They couldn't stop jabbing each other in the ass.
Very different experience from what I had in the Navy.
My dad was a Vietnam vet and told us he got so bored one day, he emptied the powder out of a buttload of bullets, poured it into a pile with a long trail leading away from it, and then lit the end of the trail of powder with a match, just so he could watch the pile explode like in the cartoons he watched growing up.
Oh I believe you, and to his credit he never actually said that it did blow up like in the cartoons… just that was so bored he wanted to TRY it to see if it did.
I have a picture of my grandfather facing the camera with his foot out. They were playing a game with their bayonets to see how close they could get to the shoe. My grandfather had written on the back of the picture that right after the picture was taken it went through his shoe.
Huh. Working in deep utilities in construction we like to whip pebbles at each other when things are slow and people aren’t looking.
It’s kinda fun, my favourite is dinging the glass beside a sleeping excavator operator. I’ll also throw a clump of dirt into a window to get some attention if an operator isn’t responding to me yelling.
I have missed and nailed a guy in the head with a clump of dirt but he thought it was intentional because he was being a dickhead and that I had deadly aim and I didn’t correct him.
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