Mechanics are mechanics and engineers are engineers, there are huge differences. But you knew that.

holding back stuff for the sequel!.. good thinking, Gunny!

sadly, I haven't the near misses and 'combat related injuries ' you report to fall back on when spinning a story over a cold beer, but I did have a nasty run in with a stapler and some mighty vicious paper cuts in my time..

and there was that one time when an enlisted drove a pencil through my finger.. still can see the remains of the lead wedged between the knuckle joint on my right index finger..luckily I'm left-handed so I was still able to write up the charges.

and, of course there was the incident I like to call " The Greek, The Goat, The Turk and the Tank " - a sanitized version of which, I recall posting on the late lamented GiJargon website many moons ago..

oh, and the time the howitzer came through my offfice- not the shell, but the whole gun, carriage, transport and stunned driver trainee...

but, other than that, bot much to tell for my years in service green...

some people get all the luck...

Continuing the thread jack.....

Recently I was asked to sit in on a panel of "joint service reps" and "tell your best war story of professional significance". I was next to last of the group (USAF, USA, USN, USMC and some civilians). The other stories had mixes of humor and "in the good ole days..." type of things. Mine involved changes in a foreign government and international policy making procedures where I was directly involved. General officers and senior civilians asking me "what do you think...?". Almost to a man the entire panel leaned forward and looked at me with a "WTF?" expression. Some even asked me afterwards, "really, is all that shit true?". Yes, yesh-it is.

And I can't tell you the story.

yeah rppearso, and turds are turds.

howitzers coming through the wall huh? Geez, your arshole must have sucked up about half of the seat cushion on yer chair when that thing came whizzing by!

I did see a 155mm howizter get dropped by a CH-53D from 9,000 feet onto a concrete road. The barrell embedded itself about 40 feet down, with the wheels and misc bit pieces left on the road. They tried and tried to get it out, but finally decided to just pave over it.

" The Greek, The Goat, The Turk and the Tank "
Please repost this one. Had a good chuckle over that one way back when, and there's more than a few who haven't read that one!


and yeah, I hijacked the crap outta this thread, but he did ask didn't he?

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Gunny:

occasionally I still sh*t some kapok stuffing!!

the lad was practising ' backing up' and forgot wall proximity drills.. still have flashbacks to the bricks giving way and the barrel spiking right through the portrait of the Queen before the rest of the gun carriage, truck and all hell followed...

missed my desk by about two feet but took out the comfy couch and the mini bar with the CO's personal beverages, along with a phalanx of filing cabinets before embedding itself in the outer hallway...

was glad I had elected to wear the camo skivvies though one or two noticed a certain aroma about me at the time....

full points to the driver for managing to keep the train in line while accelerating backwards at speed, but he elected to transfer to supply anyway...

Hey guys, I'm not minding the replies actually they add to my day! Lets hear the one about " The Greek, The Goat, The Turk and the Tank " This is good Shite!

see...lots of great fun to be had while serving!

ah, yes.. the Greek/Turk thing.. If only my booze soaked mind could remember what I posted as the ' truth' back on Jargon so as not to have a 'conflicting report' appear here...LOL..

might chew up some considerable bandwidth as well and not be suitable for all ages...vaguely recall some nudity, exposure to the elements, senseless violence and damage to international relations among other things...course that was --geez --almost 30 years ago in pre-PC times...[ am I really THAT old now? ]

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vaguely recall some nudity, exposure to the elements, senseless violence and damage to international relations among other things...

Sounds like liberty on Guam

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Sounds like liberty on Guam

Eh-ehm. Why yes, yes it does. I think there should be anew thread started, "Strangest Places I woke Up In...."

Hmmmm, Speaking of Strangest Places I woke up in......
Much of what I know about tequila was learned after drinking way too many shots of it one night many years ago, when I found myself emerging from a hiatus from consciousness, buck naked with a woody that frankly wouldn't quit, draped over several sacks of rice in the back of a kitchen in a Mexican restaurant with a lot of Mexican people laughing at me and, OK, sure, my behavior merited their snickering scorn, but nevertheless a small but permanent portion of my agave-addled brain was setting itself aside for the life-saving advice that I follow to this very day: Don't drink so much tequila. The only real saving grace was that the owners wife apparently had a great time that night and he (the owner) wasn't around! I still have a standing invitation at that little restaurant.

Other than that, my knowledge of tequila is limited to a bottle of Cazadores Reposado I buy at Costco and keep in my refrigerator and treat with a good deal of wary respect, never self-inflicting more than three shots of the narcotic beverage in any 24-hour period. Most around me know enough to stay well out of my way when that bottle is sitting open on the coffee table.

what? no one is gonna top that one?

Let's see tequila-- I woke up on a pool table after tequila.....don't remember playing pool.

Woke up on the roof of a hotel in Japan. The stairway was pad locked and the fire escape was torn off. We had to climb/fall about twelve feet to reach the fire escape to get off the roof. Still have no idea how we got there.

Woke up on a beach in Guam. Liked it so much, I spent the weekend living under palm tree. Didn't move all weekend. I would just scream at passersby until someone brought me alcohol.