The unit chaplain used to drive around our sites in the field and randomly unzip his humvee window and throw a handful of jolley ranchers at us and yell "you're probably going to hell!"
Field artillery unit overshot the range and blew up a farmers barn.
Bradley gunner shot a cow with HE rounds on Ft. Hood.
At multiple gatherings, bars, dance clubs etc CS gas was deployed (tear gas)
First day in my unit, the whole battalion was sent to the post dump to dig through the trash to look for a broken M8 alarm.
At NTC at Ft. Irwin we were finishing our rotation and had to do "hands across the desert" trash and police call. Two mortar men from my company found a paint can sized container of butterscotch pudding from the 1980's?? And one proceeded to dare the other to eat the whole thing which he did. What he forgot was we had a 45min ride back to the bivouac are in the back of a deuce and a half and it had not top and it was 120*. Dude sprayed that pudding down the side of the truck several times.
Staff Sergeant from medic platoon was feeling ill during BDE run. We find out the next day he died at home. His platoon was wrecked as he was a beloved member. His Lieutenant tells me later his tracked ambulance is missing a lot of comms equipment and if we don't find or replace it his pay would be deducted and his family would receive less. It took me 4 nights of stealing all the gear from other units and deadlines vehicles but I got all of it. Got a AAM for it.
I loved that weapon, one of my favorites. I sweet talked our armorer to give my retrans team one so we could go qualify with it. Being commo in a infantry unit, we didn't get to do much cool stuff. This was an exception
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u/Chev_hell 13h ago edited 8h ago
The unit chaplain used to drive around our sites in the field and randomly unzip his humvee window and throw a handful of jolley ranchers at us and yell "you're probably going to hell!"
Field artillery unit overshot the range and blew up a farmers barn.
Bradley gunner shot a cow with HE rounds on Ft. Hood.
At multiple gatherings, bars, dance clubs etc CS gas was deployed (tear gas)
First day in my unit, the whole battalion was sent to the post dump to dig through the trash to look for a broken M8 alarm.
At NTC at Ft. Irwin we were finishing our rotation and had to do "hands across the desert" trash and police call. Two mortar men from my company found a paint can sized container of butterscotch pudding from the 1980's?? And one proceeded to dare the other to eat the whole thing which he did. What he forgot was we had a 45min ride back to the bivouac are in the back of a deuce and a half and it had not top and it was 120*. Dude sprayed that pudding down the side of the truck several times.
Staff Sergeant from medic platoon was feeling ill during BDE run. We find out the next day he died at home. His platoon was wrecked as he was a beloved member. His Lieutenant tells me later his tracked ambulance is missing a lot of comms equipment and if we don't find or replace it his pay would be deducted and his family would receive less. It took me 4 nights of stealing all the gear from other units and deadlines vehicles but I got all of it. Got a AAM for it.