I know it's a flashy title but I promise you it's not nearly as exciting as that.

So when you get to Parris island or San Diego for summer camp they make you send a detailed list of what is and isn't allowed to be sent to the campers. Protein bars/powder, cough drops, vitamin C pills, etc.

My mom being the wonderful woman she is decides to go out and get the biggest damn protein powder she can...

I went to Basic Training at Fort Jackson in the early 1990’s and I was about 27, not the oldest in our platoon but I was close.

Mail call was always a good way to end the day. Usually.

One of the guys was very thoughtful and answered his mothers question by telling her just a little something about each of us, even if it was just our name. He didn’t realize he was sentencing us all to smoking.

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So there I was, on USS Boat (CV-OlderThanMe), playing sailor in the Eastern Pacific. We were working up our gumption to go on a real cruise, aka "work ups."

So my Mom sends me a care package. You need to know my Mom at the time would hoard boxes of all shapes and sizes so she would always have the right sized box for whatever she was sending to someone.

When I got the care package in the large...

Hi again brothers and sisters. Even if the title changed, you might recognize me from my First Story, my Second Story, my Third Story, my Fourth Story, my Fifth Story, my Sixth Story (Pt.1), Sixth Story (Pt.2) and Seventh Story Once again, thank you for all your support. Writing is my therapy, you reading it is part of it. Thank you for your caring and loving comments. Merci beaucoup.

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Hey everyone, so a couple of years back I was in this thread with a slightly different name positing about my experiences in Iraq. I just wanted to say thank you all for the critiques, soul sharing and overall encouragement. I submitted my manuscript to dod for review. I mention this sub by name in the thank you. Appreciate yall.

The TIFU post that sparked this memory

So no shit there I was as a relatively recently promoted buck sergeant, in charge of My First Squad^TM. Things are going swimmingly, my guys knew me when we were all E4s, I’m not power mad, I get to extend our lunches to 2 hours if there’s nothing going on, life’s good.

We move to a new motor pool. Spent some days organizing, ordering new equipment for our...

1986 Ft Gordon, GA. Our training brigade was on duty cycle and we had to pull guard duty on Eisenhower drive for the Masters.

2-4 trainees with an NCO making sure perimeter of Augusta National Golf Course was secure.

Jack Nicolas has lead going into 4th round.

There was a dude prolly mid twenties from OH he was a SPC4 on duty with us. About 0600 before we were relieved dude just jumps a 4ft fence...

I just want to share one of my favorite stories from when I was in ait a few years ago just something light and funny.

I was at ft. Rucker in Alabama. I had been there for a few months I was 19 So I was still pretty young and I’m an only child so saying my parents were attached to me was an understatement so much so that when I got on the bus to go to meps they said goodbye I got on the bus then...

Sup goons! Back with another story this time from Airborne school. (There are no bears in the air) I attended in January as I re-enlisted for Airborne school and thought it would be a fun school to attend. (It is)

The first week is made up of basically learning how the parachute works/put on the parachute, and also how to fall, and when I say fall I mean you fall ( A LOT) learning the PLF and...

Having served my mandatory two years of service in the Singapore Armed Forces, I’ve had my fair share of scares when it comes to me or my buddies losing restricted stuff.

During Basic Military Training, my company, Kestrel Coy, was out training on urban ops. After an uncomfortable overnight stay in the field, we did some more room-clearing and then it was off to go back to the company line.

Excep...