Soliders will be soldiers or How Boredom Breeds Stupidity

[Podmonkey]

I would have loved to be present when the for the first instance of this happened.

"Uh........ Sir? We like....... sorta got our rifles stuck together."

 

[Marine Cpl]

I remember on a training mission shooting cleaning rods out of the barrel loaded with blanks. That cleaning rod embedded itself halfway into a tree trunk. I couldn’t get out out.

Yes. Soldiers do stupid things. In Kuwait out of boredom we each each drank a bottle of robitussan from the mobile PX to trip out at night. Now picture 5 or 6 dudes tripping out in a GP tent in the middle of night in the desert.

 

[dubleuhb]

HaHa, while training on the big island of Hawaii I tried to kill one of the wild turkeys with a blank and a cleaning rod. Just missed on a good dinner for the crew.

 

[SomeSoldier]

HaHa, while training on the big island of Hawaii I tried to kill one of the wild turkeys with a blank and a cleaning rod. Just missed on a good dinner for the crew.

The big island was a trip. We had a soldier fall face first on volcanic rock. They cut his body armor off and air lifted him back to Oahu on a blackhawk.

 

[Podmonkey]

We held a HEMTT jumping contest once. During a training exercise. There was a downhill trail with a little dip at the bottom, if you floored it down the hill and hit the dip you could catch a little bit of air.



That is a HEMTT

 

[Marine Cpl]

Ever snort taster’s choice from the MRE? I knew some dumb Marines who did.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Ever snort taster’s choice from the MRE? I knew some dumb Marines who did.

Does No-Doze count?

(Not a military story and I wasnt the one to do it but "no shit there I was...")

 

[Acer-m14]

Does No-Doze count?

didn't snort in my NAVY days .. put drop at least 4 pills into the morning coffee some days lol ..

 

[repete]

We held a HEMTT jumping contest once. During a training exercise. There was a downhill trail with a little dip at the bottom, if you floored it down the hill and hit the dip you could catch a little bit of air.

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That is a HEMTT

HAHA< I did something similar but with a M548 (tracked cargo, personnel carrier) filled with OCS students, they didn't think it was funny nor did the major that was the instructor. Honestly, I didn't realize the ground dropped like it did glad no one got hurt.

 

[vanderblack]

In Hawaii we would float fish by prying open blanks, insert canon fuse and flatten the casing around the fuse. Light, drop in water, retrieve fish. Until one day, one of the guys missed the water, went over to pick it up before it went off and drop it in the water. It went off and hit him in the head. Nearly took his eye out. Several stitches later.............

 

[Doc8404]

I remember on a training mission shooting cleaning rods out of the barrel loaded with blanks. That cleaning rod embedded itself halfway into a tree trunk. I couldn’t get out out.

Yes. Soldiers do stupid things. In Kuwait out of boredom we each each drank a bottle of robitussan from the mobile PX to trip out at night. Now picture 5 or 6 dudes tripping out in a GP tent in the middle of night in the desert.

And no goats around.

I can only imagine.

 

[Marine Cpl]

And no goats around.

I can only imagine.

We found the closest thing at H&S Battalion. The Sailors there were willing participants.

 

[Doc8404]

We found the closest thing at H&S Battalion. The Sailors there were willing participants.

Hey I was stuck there.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Hey I was stuck there.

"Stuck", eh? How many times and by whom?

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I remember on a training mission shooting cleaning rods out of the barrel loaded with blanks. That cleaning rod embedded itself halfway into a tree trunk. I couldn’t get out out.

Yes. Soldiers do stupid things. In Kuwait out of boredom we each each drank a bottle of robitussan from the mobile PX to trip out at night. Now picture 5 or 6 dudes tripping out in a GP tent in the middle of night in the desert.

I saw that before. The dude literally curled up next to his bunk along the wall and spaced out for about 2 hours... Kinda funny, kinda freaked me out....