Fort Knox about 1998 and our new company commander decided to schedule a health day. He got people to come in from the community and give us classes. These were not military people that showed up. All civilians.

A doctor and nurse talked about all kinds of interesting things, how to get vasectomies, how to get birth control pills, stop smoking don’t drink too much, etc..

A psychiatrist talked...

I realize this doesn't exactly comply with rule #1, but I believe this story deserves to be told to an international audience.

Nikke Pärmi was an officer of the Finnish Army during the WWII & the word "eccentric" doesn't do him justice. Baptized as Nikolai, he was born in 1887 in the town of Alahärmä & as a child he was spanked a lot, sometimes even "just in case" after a children's prank in the...

This story was submitted to r/MilitaryStories about six years ago. I see the submission rules have changed, so I thought I'd get this one up.

What I'm doing with my posted stories is updating them and putting them into a final form. If you're not into rereading old stuff, this is your alert - give it a bye. Otherwise, step back with me to Vietnam, early 1968. I was an artillery 2nd LT, all of...

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This was a decent month. You got new stories from /u/ro...

After a discussion with some of the other mods, we have agreed to update our rule set for two reasons. First, they are way too complicated and there are too many of them. Second, this will help with the "rules lawyers" out there who like to occasionally argue with the mod team.

Effective immediately, the new rules are as follows:

Rule 1:Post a true story without the use of AI from your military...

My great-grandfather, Alexander Houck Mosier, served in WWI with the 79th Division during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which took place from September 26, 1918, to November 11th, 1918. This is his story.

I have in my possession the transcription of a diary he wrote while deployed. A major help in writing this story is the book History of the Seventy-Ninth Division A.E.F. during the World War:...

When I was in benning jump school in 2006 there was a rumor that one of the Sgt airbornes threw a girl (Megan adleman) into the side of the plane and her shoot didn’t open. There were a lot of really bad things in this company that make me think this was probably true. I am wondering the reasons why a shoot wouldn’t open after someone hit the side of the C-130 and other explanations and research...

Lest We Forget, Army Footy

Mild mannered H was wounded out the Desert Rats in 1942. His tank was shot out from under him three times and the last time saw him and his two badly singed, extremely loyal corporals sent back to Bovington to a training posting.

Colour Sergeant H and his two corporals became instructors at the tank school. Daisy, his wife was very pleased with his new assignment after...

MSD Concord had somehow managed to acquire a 33 ft. Winnebago Chieftain Motorhome courtesy of the U.S. Marshall seizure asset program. Someone had the bright idea of making it a mobile command post for emergencies, so the inside was gutted and refitted with desks, radios and so forth. Its one claim to fame was the 10 cm marine radar that had been installed with the radar dome and operators’...

An excerpt from the coming book. Enjoy.

Thanks as always to /u/FluffyClamShell

As combat arms guys, we were always talking trash about the REMFs. "Rear Echelon Mother Fuckers." Basically, that is anyone who isn’t fighting the fight. We hated them, because they weren't out in the field suffering, or at least not as bad as us. We always had the most spartan conditions. Included in REMFs were...