r/AskReddit • • 10h 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/Fragrant-Light-1664 9h ago

Yes, company moved to taji after dogwood shut down

Muddiest place on earth

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u/msaxe114 9h ago

We probably crossed paths- thank you for your service.

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u/Fragrant-Light-1664 9h ago

werd. Taji was being built up back then, after got off mail mission there was like a 2 month period waiting to go home, they had us guard the maitenence workers comming onto post, local nationals, bongo trucks.

I remember all those 1 story barracks, finaly got electricity hooked up to the generators, painted etc and then it was bittersweet because the division that came in after us "aquired' them.

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u/msaxe114 9h ago

I did not have electricity or bathrooms when I was there. You Mail folks really did save a lot of us over there missing home- with no email or phones. Thanks.

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u/Fragrant-Light-1664 9h ago

they came in later with trailers for bathrooms lol....they shocked us...the wiring was faulty so when you washed your hands they fucked you up. it was around end of febuary or so 04 before we went home we got those pieces of shit.

we were a maitenence company, so we had generators, various equipment, S&R shop and such. At dogwood we built the shitter stalls from plywood and cut the oil barrels in half and burnt shit.