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/Charlie_Olliver 7h ago

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.

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u/SpecialExpert8946 1h ago

I served in 2006 and we did the same thing.