A funny story from your time in the military?

Question

Here's mine:
In AIT a guy was always playing practical jokes, and we had had enough. So, we got his roommate to tell us when he was taking a dump. We crept in to the room, opened the bathroom door suddenly, and sprayed him with the fire extinguisher. I snapped a photo, which I still have.

The expression on his face, as the white clouds from the extinguisher billow towards him and he's on the pot with his pants around his ankles, makes me laugh to this day. Oh, ya we did get in trouble, but not much, and it was definitely worth it.

Tell me a funny story of yours.....

Answer 1

We had just stood in formation for 45 minutes during a ceremony to name a permanent regimental commander and command sergeant major. I had a lot of water before the formation and I really had to go.

After we were dismissed my buddy and I went to the PX to go get some lunch, so we ordered our food, dropped it at a table, and both rushed to the latrine. There were 3 stalls and 2 urinals.

My buddy was ahead of me and he went into the far stall. I went to the urinal, but some really old guy went to the second stall.

Well the old guy had some sort of problem and made some thunderous sounds on the toilet, to which my buddy remarked "Good Lord you have got some cannon fire over there," thinking that it was me next to him in the middle stall.

I didn't know what he was talking about at first, but then I guess the smell got to him and he said "Oh my God, dude, you reak! I think I am going to be sick."

The old guy then let loose with some thunder and there was a lot of plopping. At that point I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe, even though I wanted to tell him it wasn't me.

So he flushed the toilet at about the same time as the old guy and they both exited the stall at the same time. The regimental commander was the old guy.

Answer 2

The one I did that everyone liked was the "Run a Round".
The Sargent over the Barracks like to go to the NCO club through the day and have a few drinks. When the Commander come looking for him, I tell the Commander he had to run over to Laundry for something. Commander later come looking again and I say, "he just left toward your office". Later Commander come and I tell him; "Yea, he did not find you at the office and say he have to go to Supply". Well, you get the picture. Everyone be ROFL. Then at the end of the day the Sargent show up at the Commanders office and say; "Finally, I found you, where you been all day"?

Answer 3

Navy Frigate, 1987, somewhere off the Pacific Coast of Russia in rough winter weather late late at night:

I was with an HSL Helicopter detatchment, and some of the maintenance guys had been playing with metalized mylar sheeting and the helium for our landing gear and making tiny balloons...

I was inspecting my SAR (search and rescue) gear... and was tossing out some "expired" chem-lights...

We all had an idea, made a BIG balloon, rigged it with a cluster of green and cluster of red chem-lights... and extra mylar-strips... we stepped out of the hangar and let it go into the night sky into winds of about 50 knots.

CIC picked it up on radar about 6 minutes later... an unknown contact doing about 60 knots at 2000 feet !!!!

We went to General Quarters... and never did tell what the contact was !!

Answer 4

One day when I was in AIT my roommate was waxing the hall floors. We used to light the can of Turtle Wax on fire to melt the wax (making it easier to spread) and then smother the flame using the lid. I looked down the hall just in time to see him try to extinguish the flame by blowing on it because he left the lid out of reach. Well, as you probably know, the wax in the can forms a crater as it is used. When he blew on it, I saw a flame shoot out of the can and toward his face! I was concerned at first, and ran down there to make sure he was ok, but fell down laughing after I saw him: his face was covered in wax, his BC glasses were completely covered, and his mustache (that he was so proud of) and eybrows were singed. He was fine, but the '70s porn mustache had to be shaved off! LMAO!