Best army memories

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
@ The Grunebrau Crailsheim West Germany (me in middle) Christmas 1978

you look like a certain gay poly poster named wittlich

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Pekka
Grandpa, in that first pic, you have that jeffrey dahmer look... scary!

Well, I only eat meat after its been cooked and only from an animal

[Bearcat]

Back when I was a nonrate, and had just arrived at my unit, we went on an shipboard exercise (I'm in the Marines). So I get tasked out to go with one of my corporals as a radio operator for a recon team that is going out to do an overnight patrol. Needless to say I wasn't particularly thrilled. These guys were no **** recon, and I was just a boot Lcpl. So we get dropped off by 53 and we hump all afternoon in the heat from the LZ to our night site. The whole point of this thing, was that were simulating a forward observation team, that would watch the enemy and than report back to the ship. Well, my corporal decided that we would each take turns on the radio overnight and wake the other one up when it was their watch. Anyway, being relatively new I hadn't yet totally adjusted to going on very little sleep and I was pretty tired when it came turn for my watch. So what did I do? I crashed out for my hour of watch, and than woke up my corporal and handed him the handset and went back to sleep

[SlowwHand]

Lucky group.

[Sirotnikov]

The funniest army memories are obviously from training periods, since my regular employment is.. well.. sort of desk job.

I'll think of some funny ones to tell, even though most of it is only funny when you are there...