I have been clearing out my grandparents' house in preparation for moving my stuff, as i am inheriting the house after my grandfather died in march and my grandmother moved into a nursing home. I came across a old 40mm shellcasing he kept as a vase and some old memorabilia from when i was in the home guard during WWII, which made me remember him telling me some of the wilder stories of stuff he...

Recently commented on a post and remembered this one. Posting it here for your amusement.

Over the years, I’ve developed a seemingly counterintuitive mantra that “If you ain’t part of the problem, then you ain’t part of the solution”. This is the story of how this glorious epiphany first dawned on me.

I’ve never been one to take much bullshit from anyone, and especially not one to hand bullshit...

u/Chickengilly has been subtly bugging me for this one for a while. Better late than never. If you like this one, I've got more; scroll to the bottom for links.

The setting: Germany, July 2004. Operation Iraqi Freedom has been going on for a little over a year. (Operation Enduring Freedom is still going, too, but already, no one cares about Afghanistan as much. Almost prophetic, that. But I...

While writing my last story about AVSUPFAC Cordova AK, the little gem below popped into mind. Just one of the little issues I ran into as Chief of Maintenance at this little temporary isolated aviation support facility located in Cordova, AK. It also was the closest military facility to where the MV Exxon Valdez ran aground in the Prince William Sound dumping oil over pristine Alaskan waters,...

It's been a while and its time for a fun story.

Sorry in advance but between my fat fingers and the keyboard having been soaked in adult beverages, the keys are a bit sticky. And I apologize for the length.

Back story. The year is 1989. I was a shiny new E7 with a major in Aviation Electronics. I had all of 18 months experience as an E7, most of it as the administrative assistant to the LCPO...

I used to read a lot of Science Fiction. Larry Niven's "Ringworld" books featured a new kind of diplomat from a race of lionlike beings who had a low tolerance for other space-traveling cultures, because a lion doesn't tolerate lower species - he kills and eats them. Imagine if your lunch started speaking back to you. The "Speaker to Animals" was a feline diplomat who could curb his instinct to...

During the cold wary in 1986 a soldier abducted a four or five year old boy in the multi-storied hotel our unit was staying at in Garmish, Germany (B Btry 6th BN 56th ADA in Bitburg). A new E-2 soldier rescued the child, caught the abductor, and physically restrained him until the German polizei and military police showed up. Does anybody remember this story?

So I'm not really military but I went to MEPS yesterday and today. I hope I get in. Don't know if this stories qualifies but I am a potential future marine.

I feel like I can't really talk about what my recruiter told me.

Hell I can't even say what I want to say here or to anyone even a therapist.

Anyway. Whatever they told me It didn't sit right with me. But new opportunities am I right ? Had to...

Concerning B Btry 6th BN 56th ADA in Bitburg, Germany (1986). While in Garmish for 2 weeks R&R after coming back from a 6 week covert deployment to Morocco, a soldier named Mink abducted a four or five year old boy in the multi-storied hotel our unit was staying at. Private Williford rescued the child, caught the abductor, and physically restrained him until the German polizei and military police...

Years ago, I enlisted as an infantryman in thr national guard and joined the ROTC program at my local university to pay for my degree. I quit ROTC before commissioning and this story was possibly the pivotal moment where I started wondering if I really wanted to be an officer.

So there I was at field training exercise wondering how many ticks had crawled up my legs when we ambushed the role...