Something that nearly every sailor (who isn't on a submarine) has experienced is an 'Underway Replenishment' (UNREP in the USN) or 'Replenishment at Sea' (RAS in other navies, including mine). Ships need to maintain certain levels of fuel, both for the ship itself and for any aircraft on board. Fortunately there are floating gas stations sailing around operational areas or accompanying groups of...

This story is really...two stories in one with one story having 3 minor small parts.

My dad was a Senior NCO in the Air Force and we had a disagreement with his CO. My dad was going give an airman of his a very good evaluation. Now there's some back story to this

This Airman's teenage son got into a relationship with this CO daughter. The daughter and the son where of the same age, the...

https://youtu.be/Xs2vynfKtfo

If you carry OC (pepper spray), you'd better seen and felt the orange mist discharged from the Eye of Sauron. I will personally show up and spray you if you do and haven't. Too many MPs/cops in less than competent forces seem to think it's some distractionary paprika shaker, not liquid hellfire which it really is, and administer it as a cure-it-all miracle drug to all of society's perceived...

As teased in my previous post, here is a fun anecdote from my first deployment as an French army infantry platoon leader.

First a bit of context. This was pre-2015 terror attacks. The vigipirate operations was a routine deployment for all French army units. You would get send in somewhere in France for 2 weeks. Soldiers would patrol train station/airports/subway stations by teams of 3 while the...

https://youtu.be/_I8J_WHndJA

It was a day just like any other. At this point in our tour, our Route Clearance job had become routine. Boring, almost. We rode around the countryside of Afghanistan in the winter months, the fighting season over with for the most part. There were still bombs to find but they were very few, and very far between.

The villagers wherever we went were usually inside. The high temperatures for the...

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I was asked to post this here by some people on another SubReddit.. Apologies if you've seen it.

It was a long time ago in Africa...

The stories... What we thought was funny would horrify people today so probably not a good idea to post stuff on line.

So here goes.

I was serving in a commando peleton attached to the Escadron du Reconnaissance of the 13DBLE. We were driving around in the dust in...

(Cross-posted from r/Army)

Ok, set the wayback machine to circa 2007. Then-newly-promoted Sgt Kytulu is going on his first ever deployment! This was slightly pre-surge (we got extended to 15 months at about month 10), and more importantly to this story, pre-Sniper Hill.

Back in the day, there was no Sniper Hill, no pre-wired internet connectivity on the larger FOBs. If you wanted internet access,...

Once I did that. I can’t run anymore. The end.

Story: I was on active duty for operational support, away from my weekend unit. Both my weekend unit and my active unit required me to take an Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) in the fall. Clearly they didn’t trust each other.

I had also been training for the Army Ten Miler, and that fell right in between the APFTs. No big deal.

Then I had the...