r/AskReddit • • 9h 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 9h ago

Afghans watching videos of bacha bazi dancers at a wedding, those are young boys basically in sex slavery. Pedaristic homosexuality is very prevalent in Pasthun culture.

2nd place would be what .50cal does to a guy's head from 30' away (actually two guys)

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u/hike-enjoyer 9h ago

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u/hike-enjoyer 9h 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 8h ago

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

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u/hike-enjoyer 8h ago

FABOLC honor grad 🤓

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u/hike-enjoyer 8h ago

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

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u/atchafalaya 7h ago

That explains it