My great-great grandfather, from Ontario Canada, was pulled out of the Montana state prison in 1916 for accessory to murder. The prison only had running water, electricity and concrete buildings for about 5 years at that point. He was sentenced in 1908 at 18 years old. He enlisted in return for amnesty, with the 113th Lethbridge Highlander battalion in Alberta April 1916. Took a machine gun bullet...

So this isn't really a story as much as just ruminating. It's been a little over a year since I arrived in Ukraine and I'm still processing a lot of what I experienced there. I'm a US Army veteran where I was in the Infantry. I deployed once to Iraq toward the end of OIF. I'm sure you're all pretty familiar with that conflict; not much needs to be said, or even can be said that hasn't been...

For those who’ve been on deployment with a ship, or just a deployment in general, I’m sure have heard of, or experienced a lot of “oh shit” moments in your career… whether it be scary, or not. In my case, I happen to be in the navy so i deployed with a ship ofc:,) so I’m here share one of my first “oh shit” navy moments.

Looking back at it, this experience is funny as hell to me, but during the...

Years ago I was the enlisted promotion manager for my state (yup, dirty Nasty Girl here) and we boarded every eligible enlisted Soldier in the state once a year for that year's promotion lists. We all know and love the foibles of the Army's current NCOER, and even the previous model had its issues. Babysitting the E5 to E6 board one year (before we switched to the new NCOER), one of our raters...

Is that your dick that smells like that? Never thought I would ask that question. And no, I'm not a "new soldier". I served when crotch sniffing was something dogs did, not soldiers.

No shit, there I wish I wasn't. For those who know, well know. I had been grouped up for quite some time. I'm sure the terms have changed as does slang and jargon throughout the years.

A new selection came to the...

Sarajevo & Tuzla (Eagle Base) April 2002

Rather long, somewhat boring about force protection differences.

Also see previous post regarding their knucklehead rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/ho5tez/your_not_going_anywhere/

I (LTC Snoo) am the National Support Element Commander (USNSE) on Camp Butmir a NATO base with 32 different nations sharing the duties of keeping the...

My country has been a liminal space between the European West and Russian East for a millennium. A century ago we began a tightrope walk across the chasm of west v east... but the thing is, they're 100 times your size, so you'd better not moon the other side on your way across. This rope is now crossed and cut. I have a dubious honor of being the last conscript who witnessed the fall of neutrality...

I am stationed as a Russian Naval Infantryman in St. Petersburg area for around 3 years now. When I first enlisted in 2020 I was stationed aboard a larger patrol boat. Every now and then we would have external inspections from higher up in the chain of command to ensure our ships were maintained and properly equipped. One of the rather comical things I noticed was that we had an older boarding...

Sup goons, I just thought of telling a funny land navigation story. My old platoon went out to a special forces land nav course after conducting half of a field problem. Our platoon sergeant signed us up for the range that day/night to get us some more land nav practice. Anyway, me and my buddy SPC V were out patrolling and coming back from our last point of the night. It was about 12-0100 at...

I don't know why this story got pushed to the front of my brain now and not a few months ago, but it was just raring to get told. Hope you all enjoy.

This story takes place around Christmas 2010 in San Diego, just one short week from embarking on the Crucible. I had been chosen to be the guard for the squad bay while the rest of the platoon went to evening chow.

They had been gone around 10-15...