Once again all names have been changed to protect the guilty.

So there I was wandering around a base in northern Iraq with the rest of my crew of misfit toys looking for T-walls we could scavenge. Most of the barriers had been unceremoniously knocked down when we withdrew back in 2010 and then had been hit with barrages of Hellfire missiles to kick ISIS out before we returned. So finding even...

So, I didn't think I had any more tales about our favorite super soldier When I was doing a zoom chat with some old friends and they reminded me about the time that Ruckle cock blocked me. I had completely forgotten about this until he reminded me of it.

So , you might remember from my past posting about the fight club that was set up by one of our lieutenants. It was amazing to say the least. Now...

In my country's navy, my ship had by the late 2010s assembled a huge collection of photographs and videos going back decades stored in an external harddisk. Crew moments, evolutions, foreign exercises, you name it.

Due to OPSEC, we were informed that we were not cleared to have such a cache of material, including a few custom-made discs of the ship's earliest days from the early 1990s. This makes...

That's the name I was unofficially awarded at least once by every command team I've interacted with in this journey I've undertaken since November 2021.

"Hey sarmage, specialist uh shit...uhhh the Bone Marrow Guy is here to see you"

And such the honorable title was bestowed upon me through trial and keystone, I'm a very forgettable young man. I'm a 22 year old signaleer Specialist, with less than...

Like u/AnathemaMaranatha told me in a comment on another post, stories are the currency in this bar, so let my buy you all a round . For those who are interested, I already shared a story here.

Back in 2010 when I was a 3 weeks old platoon leader in a French infantry regiment, my first deployment was to deter terrorism in the street of Paris as part of operation Vigipirate. This was pre-2015...

I don't fancy myself much of a writer, though I know I don't have much better memory (as you'll see). So I decided to write down one of the small stories (I might put down others if I remember them) my father has told me from his experience of the Gulf war.

My fathers' unit was stationed in Kuwait for a period after their expulsing of Iraq Ground Forces. They dealt with News Reporters of all...

I don’t know why I didn’t think to write about this one before. Or maybe I did and totally forgot. Anyway, this one’s kinda short but funny.

So no shit there we were in Iraq. Just settled in after a few months and had started hearing rumors we were getting stop-lossed. Lovely. We were mostly on convoy duty from the main base, but our unit was doing rotations through 2 other bases as well to...

First all names have changed to protect the guilty

So there I was at a base we were reoccupying in Northern Iraq that we had abandoned back in aught 10-11. We were a horizontal construction unit (USAR) and we were sent up to assist the 101st getting this base operational (setting up T-walls/hesco barriers, repairing and clearing roads, ect…) for the push to Mosul. We would get incoming 2-3 times a...

If there were dragons in the world with good flying speed, hovering and fire-breathing abilities, and strong scales that could only be penetrated by large caliber cannons, could fixed-wing aircraft of the World War I era defeat the dragons?

The British C-130 has just landed at the Maimana "airport". Maimana is in East Jesus, Afghanistan - good luck finding it. It's just big enough to have a gravel landing strip instead of merely a dirt runway. My buddy and I are loading up, very ready to get the hell out of Dodge after being stuck there living out of our 3-day packs for a little over three weeks.

As we're getting manifested, the...