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AIT (advanced infantry training) Fort Sam Houston- San Antonio, Texas. I moved off base into a slum apartment with a couple other troops. One night walking home drunk, a pack of wild hungry dogs stalked me into some dark shadows near a rail road track. I fell and was eye to eye with the snarling animals. They were closing in. I pulled a big friggin Bowie knife. I bought this Bowie knife because I lived in San Antonio, where Jim Bowie died at The Alamo. I imagined myself to be the 20th century Jim Bowie. I pulled that futzer out and it flashed in the moonlight. I started barking back at the dogs, moving the knife...
 This is actually Davy Crockett holding Jim Bowie's Tennessee toothpick. Like Virgil Solozzo in the Godfather, I have always been good with a knife*
* but only in matters of business.
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In 73 as a noob Buck Sgt. I had to take Maj Gen Haynes to the talks with the N Koreans at Panmunjon. The place is divided between the No and So. with buildings having lines through them and each painted a different color depending on which country owns it. I was standing outside the peace talk conference room with a 6'5 black sgt and one of the N Koreans walks by and spits in his face! As the sgt starts to yell "you Mother F.." I just knew we were dead. Luckily that thought must have went through the Sgts mind too because he composed himself. 
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Z, sarge. I would have followed you into the maw of battle at pork chop hill.
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Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side. Eleven hundred men went into the water... 316 men come out... sharks took the rest.
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I've never been in a situation where I thought I'd have to fight or face my demise.
The closest thing I can think of was something that happened when I was around 10. My mother was at a church function and I was playing Zelda on the SNES with my dad when we heard gun shots from my neighbor's house. It was late, and our neighbor was in his 70's.
My dad cut off all the lights in the house, grabbed his gun and told me to hide. He then left to go see what was going on. I was terrified. I hid in my parents closet and waited for him to come back. It seemed like forever. I could feel my heart pounding in my throat the whole time.
Eventually he came back. Our neighbor had a road rage incident with some guy, and they followed him home. He fired a few shots and they left.
One thing I've always really admired about my father is his ability to face dreadful situations with a calm resolve. He moved like he instantly knew exactly what to do. It was hurried, but not panicked. It was deliberate and controlled. Like he didn't even have to think about it. If he was afraid it didn't show.
I'm not sure I'm capable of that. I hope I never have to find out.
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My uncle was in a war and in a tank - he said the other guys bombed all around the tank, so he and his tank partner took that as a signal to exit, they got out and then his tank was bombed. But the shrapnel flew all over and killed his tank mate, he got burnt but his fine now. Crazy.
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Modeeb posted:
Z, sarge. I would have followed you into the maw of battle at pork chop hill.
LOL thanks Mo but you are heading the wrong direction for me!! I made Sgt in the least amount of time required by law. I use to buy my squad breakfast at the golf club. They had a lottery for tee times and we were all in it while we ate. When the officers needed a Tee time for the weekend they could call me! If they needed a fourth to fill in I was ready! 
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The original film Mash
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once when i was about 13 i was in air cadets and we were learning rifle drill with these old .303 rifles circa WW2. we were in the basic squad which is what they called the noobs and we were learning with the advanced guys so we could get up to speed in time for ANZAC day.(for those playing at home http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day)
the flight sergeant was busy talking away with some other girl that he wanted to have a crack at so we were suck at attention for ages until one of the older guys in advanced squad stepped forward and yelled
"squad! fix bayonets, short charge then retire!"
and then just ran forward into the trees. so we all followed yelling and hollering pretending to stab things. it was good fun but we got in a lot of trouble for it.
the next week they brought in a WW2 veteran who fought in north africa and italy. he told us his story about fighting with bayonets at monte casino against german paratroopers. he watched 15 men die in a few seconds after a german machine gun snuck up behind them.
a whole lot of "war's not a game" crap was said but i wonder what they would have been like when they were 13-17 years old.
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I was on the forecastle manning the port forward .50cal mount of a cruiser while doing plane guard for a carrier when Iranians decided they wanted to get between our ship and the carrier. I saw a lot of sea as we maneuvered to stay in position. I didn't realize how easily I could have ended up in the water until I was back inside.
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I was doing PMS on a radar unit and stuck the fluke probe into the high voltage case....and blew out both the meter, and a 90 million dollar radar unit.
I was a bit nervous about getting in trouble...till I figured out how to blame it on this other guy.
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Both came while I as on guard duty in Nam.
I got a call on the radio for one member of each post (two men posts) to be ready to be picked up in full gear. I had a noob with me so I had to put on all the darn gear and stand in front of the post. A 6X6 can rolling up and just slowed down. I was pulled up by other members and we rolled out of the bomb dump toward the Vil.
The road split into four parts in front of us; one to the AF, one to the Marines, one to the bomb dump (where we were coming from) and one to the Vil. I said, "If we turn left at four corners we all jump out right?" Kidding of course but on one disagreed. Just something to break the stress. Turned out it was a small riot on the Marine base. Still it was a bit of a scare.
The worse was more because of a buildup than real danger. There was this acre of 55 gal drums sitting next to post 9. Word was it was all filled with Napalm. We talked about how bad it was be if a rocket has ever hit it. We figured that post 12 and 10 would be fried. (There was no 11 or 8 for some reason.) We figured 9 (mine) and 7 would die of oxygen starvation.
Shortly after this we had a rocket attack. No biggy, happens all the time. I reached for the radio to report it but I could hear others reporting it first. Then there was a large explosion and a fireball of all fireballs ballooned up into the air. I thought, "Holy S$@$@, they hit the napalm." I sprinted out of the post while yelling, "Massy get up we are being hit." I landed on one foot and pushed off to the bunker. I rolled up under the bench and hugged the wall. The second I landed I felt Massy try to squeeze between me and the bench. He could not make it so he went on top of the bench.
All for not. They hit fuel blather at the airport. We spend the rest of the night watching the mother of all fires burn.
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i am envious of these people who have "war stories".
as a human, it seems quietly sad to have never taken part in war.
i expect that those who have may consider such a life a blessing.
who knows?
i've been reading Hemingway lately and he espouses Tolstoy for being a veteran.
he goes on to berate authors and critics who minimize the impact of war on an author.
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ZartanAround posted:
i am envious of these people who have "war stories".
as a human, it seems quietly sad to have never taken part in war.
i expect that those who have may consider such a life a blessing.
who knows?
i've been reading Hemingway lately and he espouses Tolstoy for being a veteran.
he goes on to berate authors and critics who minimize the impact of war on an author.
No you're not, talked with quite a few friends whose been in combat in Afghanistan almost all of them suffer from some form of PTSD. Those stories comes with at times a very high price.
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In 2002 I was called out from my kitchen to help with a disturbance at the bar. Turns out it was get drunk and stupid night for the Navy base. I tossed a few tough guys out on their ass's after pulling them off of the 55 year old general manager. I took a few shots in the ribs and one in the eye but I kicked major ass. Everyone around me wasn't very surprised but I was. I figured they'd have better training then I. NOPE!
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My team was hitting a safe house in western Baghdad. We inserted on the rooftop of a house that was supposed to be occupied by the dudes using it as a safe house. I had eaten an entire box of half melted thin mints a few hours earlier, and I had a falafel 30 minutes before we got the party started. It turned out that the house was not the correct house. We started jumping roof-tops, and one guy snagged his pants leg on a bolt that was sticking out of the roof. As he fell, he grabbed a wire that was running from one roof to the next. It snapped when he was about 10-12 ft from the ground, and he landed spread-eagle on a wall separating the two houses. As one or two of you might know, folks in that neck of the woods often fix glass shards to the top of such walls. He screamed bloody murder. It seems a shard of glass had torn through his pants and ripped his scrote wide open. At that point, we took AK and RPK fire from the target house. One of the birds gave the house "the business", and we left one guy with scrote-boy and moved to clear the house. As we crossed the street, we took RPG fire from an adjacent house. Apparently the warhead didn't arm, because it skipped across the street and bounced off of a car without detonating. That's when the girl scout cookies and falafel came out. I shit all over myself. It was at least a good pint of hot, runny putrid shit. We cleared the house, etc, etc, and called a nearby infantry platoon in to clean up the mess while we attended to scrote-boy. He saw my shit-saturated pants and laughed. But it smelled so bad he puked all over himself. One of the infantry platoon's NCOs gave me a clean change of pants and a garbage bag to put my shitty pants in. I kept them and washed them. I never did wear them again, but they are the only pair I kept when I left the service. Truly an embarrassing moment. But at least I didn't get my sack torn open.
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^^^^ damn! 
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Manegarm posted:
ZartanAround posted:
i am envious of these people who have "war stories".
as a human, it seems quietly sad to have never taken part in war.
i expect that those who have may consider such a life a blessing.
who knows?
i've been reading Hemingway lately and he espouses Tolstoy for being a veteran.
he goes on to berate authors and critics who minimize the impact of war on an author.
No you're not, talked with quite a few friends whose been in combat in Afghanistan almost all of them suffer from some form of PTSD. Those stories comes with at times a very high price.
those guys have awesome stories. even MayorMcDonald has some good shit.
you are an extreme poofy poof...
so you & me & illy, with his lame ass restraunt story, & all the others should STFU.
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ZartanAround posted:
those guys have awesome stories. even MayorMcDonald has some good shit.
MayorMcDonald? MCDONALD!? I was a nightshade. I WAS A NIGHTSHADE!
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This one time at band camp...
I'll have to get pretty plastered to share more stories from that chapter of my life...
So instead I'll tell the story of when I went bow hunting with my dad and 'the guys' for the first time.
Used to live in Detroit, as some of you might recall. My dad used to go deer hunting in the UP a few times a season. When I was 8 I got my first hunting bow. I got pretty good with it (for an 8 year old) and my dad took me with him to go practice with the guys... After an hour or so everyone came together and they agreed to let me come along on their next trip.
So there I am with 'the guys' all of 8 years old. Middle of freaking NO WHERE in the upper peninsula. We go out the first day and it was all yadda yadda. My dad mostly just showing me the ropes, learning to track and such... Second or third day is when my dad was tracking a good sized buck. We got close and my dad told me to 'wait here'. At first I was totally cool with it. But about ten minutes in (seemed closer to 4 hours but...) I spotted the deer my dad was stalking. I remember to this day yelling dad dad I found the deer. Of course the deer looked up, spotted me and hauled ass.
About that time I saw my dad and I started yelling dad dad I saw the deer.
I wasn't invited back the rest of that season...
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Open this thread up for all kinds of stories.
Reese's story reminds me of the first time I took my oldest son fishing. We were clear stream fishing for trout in the High Sierras. You could see the trout. I had a monster playing with my line. My son says: Dad I have to go the bathroom. I said: "You have to hold it." Long story short... ten minutes I'm still playing with the lunker and my really young son crapped his pants.
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One of my less finer moments was when I was standing guard at the Main gate at North Island Naval Air Station when a drunk Ensign (lowest officer rank) was walking through the gate decided he was going to prove he was a higher rank than me and behave like a jack-ass/talking down to me and the other guards. I decided not to call the civilian patrol and let them charge him with public intoxication when he asked for directions to the Officers Barracks.
I was more than happy to give him directions, to the far side of base near the USS Nimitz. Which put him approximately 2 miles away from where he wanted to be, and at least 1.5 miles from the gate.
I ruined his night, but not as bad as I could have.
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cobane posted:
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side. Eleven hundred men went into the water... 316 men come out... sharks took the rest.
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When I was 17 my brother 18 joined the Canadian Military.
He retired at 23 years service.
I spent the whole time petrified.
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cobane posted:
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side. Eleven hundred men went into the water... 316 men come out... sharks took the rest.
That would be June 29,1945.
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Not being in a war is far far superior to being in a war.
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GrilledCheez posted:
Not being in a war is far far superior to being in a war.
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