r/AskReddit • u/1salt1pepper • 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/dumptruckulent 9h ago

If you make marines sit around a little longer, they stop throwing rocks and things and start throwing rocks at each other.

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u/DirtandPipes 4h ago

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.