Military

[greatguns]

Yes!  And Jarhead if you win the lottery I'll be right on your doorstep.

[jarhead]

Yea Guns, and I'll shoot you and swear I thought you was a Great White shark swimming across my yard !!!!!:)

[Sarge]

Ok, that story I told actually happened except all after the call I made informing security control of Shep's alert. After that, the rest of the story  is made up to make it more interesting. Actually after making the call I very quietly made my way out of that area and let the big boys take care of the rest.  That scenario happened to me many times over there and each time I was able to sneak away, which was what I was supposed to do. I wasn't supposed to engage unless absolutely necessary.
Now, another story. As I said I was only out at night, so I would make my way to a prescribed pick up point where myself and my dog would be transported back to my tent.  One night I was not scheduled to go out so I got to sleep that night. The next morning I awoke with a cobra coiled up on my chest. I tensed up and remained perfectly still, barely breathing. My mind was racing with ideas of what to do, none of which seemed like a good plan. Then I heard giggling. What happened was one of the other dog handlers had killed a cobra that night and brought it in and coiled on my chest while I was asleep. Naturally I tried to act "cool" saying I knew it was dead all along. I lied.

[Teresa]

I should have told  them to lay a big old spider on your chest..


No.. better not..
You would have beat yourself to death and died on the spot!

[larryJ]

Good one, Sarge.  Here's a similar one.  I was stationed at Ft. Sam in San Antonio for medic school.  We had a National Guard trainee with us from NJ.  He was deathly afraid of snakes.  Lots of snakes in Texas.  So one day we came back from helo evac training with a dead snake and during the night coiled it on the floor by his bunk.  As he was acting Corporal, he had to be up first to wake us up.  Of course, that morning we were all awake and laying quietly in our bunks.  He hit the lights and turned to face the snake and lit out the door screaming.  We couldn't stop laughing.   Later, we threw the snake out by the dumpster.  We came back after lunch and the snake was gone.  We thought an animal might have taken it, but there were definite slither marks in the dirt leading away from the dumpster.  We couldn't figure out how the snake could have "come back to life" until the end of the school when our good buddy informed us that he had come back and drug the snake in the dirt to make it look like it revived and crawled away.  He later moved to Hollywood and became an actor doing small bit parts.

Larryj

[larryJ]

I saw a video on another blog I read and I thought it was great.  Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of how to get it from there to here.  But, I will tell you what to type into the search on your browser and maybe someone can embed it. 

And, Jarhead, I was thinking of you and Sarge and all us vets when I saw this.

Search for ------------  Marines doing the cha cha slide



Larryj

[Wilma]

I love these stories of experiences from military duty and I don't care if they are true or not.  This kind of humor is what has kept our military so great.  You can't keep an American down.

[jarhead]

Wilma,
True or not humor I guess you're right when it comes to Larry and Sarge, unlike anything I say.  Mind you the time there at the Chosin Reservior, in Korea, back in "52"---or was it "53" ?? Well any-hows there I was a sit'n in my fox hole, freezing my tail off and all of a sudden about a kazillion Chinese came swaring across the Yalu river. Now the river was froze over but most of em had ice skates so twernt no problem fer'em. They came a'screaming---blowing whistles---blowing bugles. Now I aint ashamed to say I was a tad scared but I knew Chesty Puller had my back so------------------------------------------------Crap, Wilma. My wife told me to quit playing on the computer and take the trash out. Don't know who she  thinks she is bossing a hero around---but I better do it !!!

[larryJ]

One of the worst things in the world is being interupted by the wife in the middle of a good war story!  Never mind she has probably heard a thousand times.  But, she should remember the story changes over time.  The facts kinda change and the story has to be juiced up time to time. 

Larryj

[Wilma]

Pretty much like the big fish that got away?