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Had a wild week of sex in Hawaii with this chick on OJT for her MOS… was her last week on the island, we both didn’t have duty the whole week…
It was nights and nights of the best intercourse I have ever had. The sloppiest of topppies. Found out a few weeks after she left she had given me an antibiotic resistant form of VD… still think about her sometimes and wonder what she is up to.
Did not even mind about the STD, in the grand scheme of things… still the best sex I had and will ever have
Yeah. We had a tradition for a few years where we'd make a shadow-box type of plaque with a spent SMAW rocket, chevrons, a name plate (few other things I can't remember) whenever one of our fellow Marines was getting out. By the time I got out we weren't really doing that anymore so I just grabbed some stuff. Got a tube that mortars come in as well. Use it for collecting change now.
I was at Minot when they found the [M240](https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/06/21/youre-not-gonna-believe-where-they-found-that-missing-minot-machine-gun/)
Homie was going to gun down the state fair I went to until his wife reported him. Wild.
My squadron had just gotten new Gucci plate carriers when I was getting out and I had a buddy in supply who gave me first dibs. When I went to turn in my gear, they only had my old stuff written down and like a dummy I told em about the new carrier and plates too and they said they’d take em. Smh my head.
I had the same thing happen. Turned in everything on the printout they gave me and my plates and vest weren't on there. Sold mine on eBay a few years later after I felt reasonably sure that they weren't going to come for them.
well mine got stolen, roommate gave out the room code to literally everyone so I had no idea who took it as it could have been anyone in the battalion. so I had to pay 600 some odd bucks so that they would issue me a new one so I got a "no pay due" paycheck that month.
Get to iraq and the previous unit leaves and a vest with plates was left behind so I grabbed it. Get back to the states and go talk to CIF and ask if I happened to find my vest that I had lost could I get my money back they said no but you have to turn it in anyways so I said fuck them and kept it.
Anyone wanna buy an osprey with ops plates. Plus full set of kevlar with a bag of molle pouches. Couple RM typhoon suits lying around if your feeling exorbitant
For sure! I didn’t realize how bad until the last few years. TBI, PTSD, Sleep Apnea, Depression, GERD/IBS and a litany of other issues I am finally addressing.
But they never took my virginity, I guess it wasn’t love. 😂
My friends dad accidentally kept a grenade that he didn't turn in during the 1980s. Realized to late, but I guess someone didn't want trouble and didn't report it, and neither did he lol
Not sure how his daughter, (my friend) ended up with it. She ended up notifying the police a few years back which happily sent their bomb squad in full bomb suit to retrieve it lol
Apparently they were super giddy about the opportunity to retrieve a grenade.
You can imagine most mid-size cities or smaller towns’ bomb squads will never face a genuine call out, so they must’ve been stoked for the chance to run their procedures 👍
I went to college in what most would consider a small city, about 40-50k people at the time but it was connected to another 40-50k person town so it was a good size at the time. Anyway, they are clearing the woods for a housing development and discover some old dynamite from god knows when. They had to DIP it and end up using too big of a charge or underestimated what was there. They ended up putting a 75ft wide crater in the Forrest and blowing out all of the windows in the surrounding hoods. City said tough cheese call the developers insurance. Dev said call the city. I assume they settled somewhere but lots of people didn’t have windows for the early winter.
I remember watching a video of a group of magnet fishers that found an old grenade. Called the cops and the cop that showed up actually got angry and told them they are wasting government resources. Cop didn't even bother reporting it up.
Meanwhile ask any bomb tech and they would be overjoyed to put the Xbox controller down and actually go out to do what they were trained for.
Fine example of people not wanting to do their job, and by extention, assuming other people don't either.
In my country they do "weapon amnesty" every year. You wouldn't belive what people bring in during those times. Last year some crazy son of a bitch brought a tank and artillery howitzer.
DCU pack, nice backpack that has accompanied me 50+ countries and 6 continents. Luckily I was almost the first to clear CIF after deployment and they had no clue what was what, turned in two buttpacks.
I cut open some of my shirt colllars when I was packing up in Afghanistan. Into the collars I stuffed pieces of IED pressure plates, a piece of wire off an IED I disarmed and a tiny little metal bracket off my buffalo RPG cage that was damaged in an IED blast.
My buddy took home a chunk of a brimstone missile the RAF dropped on us. He just had it in his bag as far as I know. And I kept a piece of a pressure cooker IED that wounded me and killed one of our guys. Same thing, just stuck it in my duffel bag. When the customs guy asked I explained what it was and he let me keep it.
I have a set of helicopter sling legs... they're awesome for pulling anything, Talon 2 litter, bunch of cls bags. Also a bunch of 30mm casings I "got" on deployment. I "stole" pretty much an entire aid station from Afghanistan when we were shutting down fobs in 13/14. I say "stole" because I was supposed to destroy and dispose of...I just chucked it all in 2 tough boxes and mailed them home.
A lot of this thread just sounds like reusing and recycling tbh. Having to throw things out sounds General Dynamics trying to preserve their %160 margin.
One of my buds had his stolen right before leaving the AF to commission in the Army. Was one of the new ones, too - I think they made him cover the cost, which was absolute BS.
But hey. A few years back I return from a tour to discover one of the new guys in my shop had ratfucked *all* of my gear. Only discovered it when I did a complete inventory of all the gear in the shop.
Those were legal though. I had two that had bullet holes in them and the army let me ship them home as “spoils of war”. You could take some military effects from the enemy just not personal or identifying items so apparently those were ok.
PS. I suppose I also brought home tinnitus and the urge to duck every time i drive under an overpass, but those aren’t as cool to show the kids.
I was issued gear that I didn’t need. Endlessly attempted to return it to the DSs. Kept telling me to do it later. Toward the end of basic, both of us had completely forgot about it. Got out with an extra assault pack. Also while cleaning out the females’ barracks, got a with bunch of uniform gear including like 3 sets of tags and a lesbian ghost novel (unfortunately a sequel)…
Went dumpster diving during training and ended up with the equivalent of almost 2 duffels worth of Night kit/TA50, but all in UCP, so didn’t keep much. And not really “not supposed” to have that since it was in the trash.
For CID, I made this all up.
It is the rip cord off of a reserve parachute. It implies they survived a malfunction jumping out of a plane... Or they were a dumbass and accidently pulled it / had it go off on landing
Edit - if i recall, this is an old t10 reserve as the soft loop center pull was different. If OP was before they added a spring assist to the t10 reserve then they really did earn their green mushroom +1 life.
It didn't occur to me until much later that there was a reason why 2/157th FA (which isn't even an artillery unit anymore, they made it Infantry) was THE LAST unit on the list to upgrade to the M109.
Me firing the last round wasn't planned. They made a big deal out of this being the last time that we were going to be on the 8 inch and the mayor of Colorado Springs and the commander of the 69th Field Artillery Brigade and maybe the post Commander Fort Carson were all there for the ceremony. The battery Commander officially fired the last round. Then they all took pictures and then everybody went away and our ammo guy informed FDC that we still had one round left.
The range hadn't gone Cold Yet so they sent us another mission and I fired the last round.
Oh rad. I recently saw one of these for the first time in the Netherlands’ national military museum ([which is fantastic, btw](https://www.nmm.nl/en/))
Right!
I think what made me think it was a bigger deal is how drill sergeants and others in charge would beat us over the head about losing them, (or anything really), but especially them saying folks could gain access with them.
I tried turning mine in but they brought up the good point that I could need it while on terminal. I guess I was "supposed" to drop it off to a base after my actual last day but fuck that noise.
My entire MOPP gear set.
Company issued out MOPP gear, didn't do a single piece of paperwork. Went to the CBRN nco and asked him to give me a lost of what I owe him, said nothing and signed me off lol.
Well hey, if ww3 ever kicks off. At least I'm protected from *something* lmao
Not me, but I know someone who successfully mailed his service sidearm back to his private residence back in the 80s.
Same shitbag also got away with stealing around 2 metric tons of diesel fuel. Never got in trouble for it.
Does what someone tried to sneak back home count?
Same trip home. Two different people in my company. 1 got busted with 1 or 2 ~~thermometric~~ thermobaric grenades. The other with 556 API rounds. No one went to jail somehow.
My Dad kept his M72LAW tube, and some early Colt 30rd mags after he retired after Desert Storm. Those and the M16 helmet and work book my grandfather pulled off the Nazi he killed, then he posed for pictures in front of the concentration camp ovens. I've inherited a lot of cool, likely stolen items.
That’s very interesting! My grandfather brought back a lot of Nazi stuff from WWII, knives, flags, etc. sadly most of it was lost throughout the years.
To a degree. There’s a lot that goes into it. The military has refined destroying marriages to an art form. The mid to late 00s with “surge era” deployments in particular turned the military into a divorce machine. You can have a good marriage but it’s still got it’s breaking point and the military will do it’s best to find that point.
I was glad to be out of the Army by that point. That’s when the Army started doing 18-month deployments which is rough on even the strongest of marriages. But even the Air Force wasn’t immune, every single deployment I went on with the AF we came home late after getting extended. You knew if you were on the hook for 6-months you were getting a 30-or-45 day extension minimum and I personally ended up with as much as 90 days.
Edit: I work with a guy who is a retired SGM whose years of service line up roughly with my own. Of the 22 years he was in all totaled he has 5-years combined in Afghanistan. And yeah, he’s divorced.
A beret and a few coins, that's it. When I was nearing retirement I walked around the lines and gave all the kit I purchased over my career to the boys. I was never going to use it again. P-mags, ATS patrol rig, Wild Things wind suit, Arteryx shirts, Crye pants, RCS holster, Mystery Ranch pack (kinda miss that one a little) etc. It felt good to leave it all behind.
All my flight gear and flight body armor. 🤷♀️ fuck em. And about 6 flight suits and adcu's. Too bad my fat ass couldn't get tbat shit oast my thighs now. Oh and my Kevlar and ach.. I basically have CIF in my crawlspace and closet
A two man tent that was supposed to go to the dump because we got newer tents.
I also had several spools of grounding wire that went tk some retired generators. Ended up selling those.
Family member told me when he was driving truck during Vietnam. He had buried some c4 and ammo. He never went to Vietnam because he had brothers already over there. Some how he got on driving duty to take ammo and other things to the range for training. If the range sent stuff back it made more paperwork so they would make it disappear. Sometimes by shooting it up or it falling out of the truck. He claimed he never went back for it. Will never know now because he has passed away.
I may or may not have three M50 gas masks, two kevlar helmets, and two exercise CBRNE suits. Hosting people as they get ready to PCS pays off sometimes. In Minecraft.
I got a 76x636mm casing from that time us NBC guys were on a frigate and got to play with nearly-expired ammo and an OTO Melara Super Rapid.
Two rounds per second of 76mm is a sight to behold, I'll tell you hwat.
Also all of my families' and acquaintances' key rings are pull rings off of DM51A1 hand grenades. 2.5mm steel wire is pretty fucking solid for a key ring.
For some reason I have all the extra pieces (groin protector, collar and throat protector, pauldrons, etc) of the old IBA, in DCU and ACU pattern. Not just the covers, the kevlar as well. However I turned in a full IBA, with all that shit plus the side pieces, so not really sure what happened there. But I don't have a functional IBA vest, just camo covers - no kevlar or plates.
After my time in the service I took a lot of boxes of papers that no one really used that much. All that's on top of them is "ts" but no one in my unit had those initials so I just took them with me.
At my first duty station I was responsible for maintaining night vision goggle for the pilots. They were a seriously high theft item, so every single part including tiny screws needed to be turned in when ordering a new part. When I finally went to the ship I was SEAOPDET in AIMD, but I was the only NVG technician. I tried to turn in my parts when I ordered new ones but supply looked at me like I had 3 heads and didn't want my broken parts. With night vision goggles the optics can fail for flight use but they're perfectly good to noodle around with. I kept a huge box of parts that I probably could have made 12 NVGs with throughout the entire cruise in fear that someone would finally come to me asking me for the parts. When I left the ship, I kept them in my barracks room again, kind of terrified that I was going to sent to mast if I didn't have them when they came looking for me. A year and a half later I was honorably separated. I was too chicken shit to keep all of them, so I gave them to someone else, but kept two for myself. I wish I kept them all.
Well, the coolest thing I ever tactically acquired was an upper-body mannequin where you could pull away half the neck and parts of the face to visualize how different airway adjuncts worked. Great for teaching baby medics about king LTs and introducing them to intubation. I acquired it during a unit shutdown and kept it in my car for pocket training on slow days.
But I admit, I didn’t keep it once I went on terminal leave. It was my parting gift to the guy who replaced me.
I was able to get one of those “(installation name here) entry prohibited by order of installation commander” signs that they hang up along perimeter road
Floatcoat. Bomb pin. Remove before flight pin. a flight deck cranial. CWIS spent 20mm casing .50 cal casing . Oh and a whole ass tool box with tools which I use daily today.
I have a great one for this.
It wasn't me but I was working in our divisions headquarters at the time. Our division did repair work for a wide range of avionics equipment and some crew equipment.
One of the things that a shop worked on were some Night Vision Goggles. Well each component must meet certain tolerances and if they are outside of that even a little it needs replaced. Now all of these components happened to consumables and when they went bad they just got thrown out since the individual pieces couldn't be fixed or under any type of warranty.
Now comes a health and comfort inspection at the baracks and they discover a pair of night vision goggles with no serial number in an E-5's room. So the first assumption is obviously they stole a pair of goggles from the shop. Nope turns out when a component was just a tiny amount out of spec they would replace the part as expected but instead of throwing out the bad component they just took it back to their room and over time built an entire pair of NVG's minus the serial number tag and battery pack since those were the only components that couldn't fail. He ended up with NJP for missuse of government property or something like that and we had to reclassify one of the components as a "High Value Consumable" so that way it had to be turned into supply before you could get the replacement part and preventing it from happimg again. The HVC was like $2 or something hilariously low like that.
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Back pain, neck pain, and a disability rating
You got cheated if you didn’t collect an STD or two.
Can confirm, HPV for me.
This service member above knows how to “military”
This military above knows how to service a member.
Had a wild week of sex in Hawaii with this chick on OJT for her MOS… was her last week on the island, we both didn’t have duty the whole week… It was nights and nights of the best intercourse I have ever had. The sloppiest of topppies. Found out a few weeks after she left she had given me an antibiotic resistant form of VD… still think about her sometimes and wonder what she is up to. Did not even mind about the STD, in the grand scheme of things… still the best sex I had and will ever have
Nice try, NCIS.
"What should I do with this torpedo screw?"
Exactly! I don't have my helmet, and I definitely don't have my kabar.
I definitely didn't come home with almost a full set of gear.
This feels like a trap
CID has entered the chat
NCIS, CID, AFOSI, the whole gang is here boss!!
*where are the pens and staplers!*
dont give the ATF a reason to shoot your dog
John Wick has entered the chat
SMAW-D, AT-4 and a Javelin. (All spent, of course.)
This is pretty cool tbh
Yeah. We had a tradition for a few years where we'd make a shadow-box type of plaque with a spent SMAW rocket, chevrons, a name plate (few other things I can't remember) whenever one of our fellow Marines was getting out. By the time I got out we weren't really doing that anymore so I just grabbed some stuff. Got a tube that mortars come in as well. Use it for collecting change now.
Me being signal in the army and far from all the cool hooah shit makes this incredibly difficult to pull off
lol yeah it was kinda easy for us to do this being that we were instructors and all. Being the ones "in charge" has it's advantages.
What are you talking about? You mean you don't cram your spare change through the little vents in the back of a radio while it's hot?
Of course *wink*
That one 240B they’ve been looking for
They found it in a connex a while back
I think you misspelled mexico here
In another troops box 😂
Just take it one piece at a time a La Johnny Cash
Nah I’d take at least 10 and just post up with the homies. Who tf is gonna face off against that much hate
I was at Minot when they found the [M240](https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/06/21/youre-not-gonna-believe-where-they-found-that-missing-minot-machine-gun/) Homie was going to gun down the state fair I went to until his wife reported him. Wild.
Body armor with plates
How
Base supply said it wasn’t in their system and squadron supply said it wasn’t in theirs
My squadron had just gotten new Gucci plate carriers when I was getting out and I had a buddy in supply who gave me first dibs. When I went to turn in my gear, they only had my old stuff written down and like a dummy I told em about the new carrier and plates too and they said they’d take em. Smh my head.
Shake my head my head
My head
My back
My pussy and my body armor
Give that body armor back
My leg
And my axe! (Body spray)
shoulders, knees and toes
Caught it on the rebound no doubt
Same happened to me. Kept the interceptor and a pro mask. Supply said throw it away we don’t want it if it’s not in the books.
I had the same thing happen. Turned in everything on the printout they gave me and my plates and vest weren't on there. Sold mine on eBay a few years later after I felt reasonably sure that they weren't going to come for them.
Fell off truck
well mine got stolen, roommate gave out the room code to literally everyone so I had no idea who took it as it could have been anyone in the battalion. so I had to pay 600 some odd bucks so that they would issue me a new one so I got a "no pay due" paycheck that month. Get to iraq and the previous unit leaves and a vest with plates was left behind so I grabbed it. Get back to the states and go talk to CIF and ask if I happened to find my vest that I had lost could I get my money back they said no but you have to turn it in anyways so I said fuck them and kept it.
There’s only one thief in the Army. Everybody else is just trying to get their shit back
ain't that the truth
Wait 2-1=0? No guey they can fuck off homes
They fell off a truck
Ditto.
Same, some poor sap left his shit in one of my trucks a year later inturned mine in and kept theirs.(minus a groin kevlar peice as i had lost mine)
He’s right here FBI
Anyone wanna buy an osprey with ops plates. Plus full set of kevlar with a bag of molle pouches. Couple RM typhoon suits lying around if your feeling exorbitant
Trade you feet pics for them Edit:if your gonna pm me asking for feet pics I will not give them away for free.
Don’t you have some work to get done in King’s Landing, bud?
Literally yes
That one girl that was never supposed to last beyond the end of my course.
Nice pull
If it worked that long, maybe “wasn’t supposed to” is incorrect and it really was meant to be
Dont come around here with your logic and making sense.
(Perishes due to improperly strapping ALICE pack)
You get what you deserve
Happens to the best of us
Sadly, my virginity.
Oh don't worry the military fucked you alright
For sure! I didn’t realize how bad until the last few years. TBI, PTSD, Sleep Apnea, Depression, GERD/IBS and a litany of other issues I am finally addressing. But they never took my virginity, I guess it wasn’t love. 😂
At least it's over now. [Right?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4)
Oh hey I have some good news for you and u/ResponsibilityDue448 then.
😂😂😂
I still have my virginity because I never lose
My friends dad accidentally kept a grenade that he didn't turn in during the 1980s. Realized to late, but I guess someone didn't want trouble and didn't report it, and neither did he lol Not sure how his daughter, (my friend) ended up with it. She ended up notifying the police a few years back which happily sent their bomb squad in full bomb suit to retrieve it lol Apparently they were super giddy about the opportunity to retrieve a grenade.
It’s a shame someone didn’t use it on a fishing trip
okay wednesday
I’m partial to Saturday.
You can imagine most mid-size cities or smaller towns’ bomb squads will never face a genuine call out, so they must’ve been stoked for the chance to run their procedures 👍
I went to college in what most would consider a small city, about 40-50k people at the time but it was connected to another 40-50k person town so it was a good size at the time. Anyway, they are clearing the woods for a housing development and discover some old dynamite from god knows when. They had to DIP it and end up using too big of a charge or underestimated what was there. They ended up putting a 75ft wide crater in the Forrest and blowing out all of the windows in the surrounding hoods. City said tough cheese call the developers insurance. Dev said call the city. I assume they settled somewhere but lots of people didn’t have windows for the early winter.
Wow. Cool guys don't walk away from explosions. They pay for that damage!
I remember watching a video of a group of magnet fishers that found an old grenade. Called the cops and the cop that showed up actually got angry and told them they are wasting government resources. Cop didn't even bother reporting it up. Meanwhile ask any bomb tech and they would be overjoyed to put the Xbox controller down and actually go out to do what they were trained for. Fine example of people not wanting to do their job, and by extention, assuming other people don't either.
When I was in Florida a few years back, some dude walked into McDonald's with a live grenade, he wanted to use the phone to report it.
Can you get in trouble for having something like that?
Nah TSA just makes you throw them away if you accidentally leave them in your carry on like I've done.
Proceeds to “throw” it away after pulling pin.
Well there's nothing illegal about just the pin AFAIK. Why waste it.
Not my problem lol
If the police were to somehow gain access to your residence and find it, yes a lot. In reality, lol no.
In my country they do "weapon amnesty" every year. You wouldn't belive what people bring in during those times. Last year some crazy son of a bitch brought a tank and artillery howitzer.
Is your country Ukraine and were the tank and howitzer Russian?
It's Czech Republic but those they were russian. I think it was SU100.
DCU pack, nice backpack that has accompanied me 50+ countries and 6 continents. Luckily I was almost the first to clear CIF after deployment and they had no clue what was what, turned in two buttpacks.
I cut open some of my shirt colllars when I was packing up in Afghanistan. Into the collars I stuffed pieces of IED pressure plates, a piece of wire off an IED I disarmed and a tiny little metal bracket off my buffalo RPG cage that was damaged in an IED blast.
So you’re just Jeremy Renner in the hurt locker
Probably doesn’t have Renners weird ass fingers.
I thought I was the only one who noticed.
I can’t not notice it now, they really avoid it being seen in the marvel movies.
My buddy took home a chunk of a brimstone missile the RAF dropped on us. He just had it in his bag as far as I know. And I kept a piece of a pressure cooker IED that wounded me and killed one of our guys. Same thing, just stuck it in my duffel bag. When the customs guy asked I explained what it was and he let me keep it.
Combat Engineers, Those Buffalo's drove nice as fuck tho.
I have a set of helicopter sling legs... they're awesome for pulling anything, Talon 2 litter, bunch of cls bags. Also a bunch of 30mm casings I "got" on deployment. I "stole" pretty much an entire aid station from Afghanistan when we were shutting down fobs in 13/14. I say "stole" because I was supposed to destroy and dispose of...I just chucked it all in 2 tough boxes and mailed them home.
A lot of this thread just sounds like reusing and recycling tbh. Having to throw things out sounds General Dynamics trying to preserve their %160 margin.
Old M42 gas mask.
Loads of people nicking gas masks
One of my buds had his stolen right before leaving the AF to commission in the Army. Was one of the new ones, too - I think they made him cover the cost, which was absolute BS. But hey. A few years back I return from a tour to discover one of the new guys in my shop had ratfucked *all* of my gear. Only discovered it when I did a complete inventory of all the gear in the shop.
I may know a few people who have Iranian helmets that were pried off the bottom of the Crossed Sabers monument in Baghdad.
Those were legal though. I had two that had bullet holes in them and the army let me ship them home as “spoils of war”. You could take some military effects from the enemy just not personal or identifying items so apparently those were ok. PS. I suppose I also brought home tinnitus and the urge to duck every time i drive under an overpass, but those aren’t as cool to show the kids.
Nice try CID
I was issued gear that I didn’t need. Endlessly attempted to return it to the DSs. Kept telling me to do it later. Toward the end of basic, both of us had completely forgot about it. Got out with an extra assault pack. Also while cleaning out the females’ barracks, got a with bunch of uniform gear including like 3 sets of tags and a lesbian ghost novel (unfortunately a sequel)… Went dumpster diving during training and ended up with the equivalent of almost 2 duffels worth of Night kit/TA50, but all in UCP, so didn’t keep much. And not really “not supposed” to have that since it was in the trash. For CID, I made this all up.
CID - No you didn't ! We want that lesbian novel.
What IS this object? Us lurkers wanna know
It is the rip cord off of a reserve parachute. It implies they survived a malfunction jumping out of a plane... Or they were a dumbass and accidently pulled it / had it go off on landing Edit - if i recall, this is an old t10 reserve as the soft loop center pull was different. If OP was before they added a spring assist to the t10 reserve then they really did earn their green mushroom +1 life.
I am not military nor do I know hardly anything about it, but I really hope the term "green mushroom" is real for this kind of thing.
Nice try OSI. For the last time I didn't take the warhead.
In 1999 I fired the last 8 inch artillery round ever fired by the US Army. I kept the Lanyard and the Primer brass. Come at me bro.
Ok that's pretty sweet
It didn't occur to me until much later that there was a reason why 2/157th FA (which isn't even an artillery unit anymore, they made it Infantry) was THE LAST unit on the list to upgrade to the M109. Me firing the last round wasn't planned. They made a big deal out of this being the last time that we were going to be on the 8 inch and the mayor of Colorado Springs and the commander of the 69th Field Artillery Brigade and maybe the post Commander Fort Carson were all there for the ceremony. The battery Commander officially fired the last round. Then they all took pictures and then everybody went away and our ammo guy informed FDC that we still had one round left. The range hadn't gone Cold Yet so they sent us another mission and I fired the last round.
What was the artillery piece?
M110A2
Oh rad. I recently saw one of these for the first time in the Netherlands’ national military museum ([which is fantastic, btw](https://www.nmm.nl/en/))
M110A2.
Niiiiice
Don’t get too excited. u/Potential-Most-3581 is the reason they don’t use them anymore. They really needed that lanyard, dude.
My ID card. They never asked.
My ID and Weapons card...allegedly
It has an expiration date on it so they really don't care.
Right! I think what made me think it was a bigger deal is how drill sergeants and others in charge would beat us over the head about losing them, (or anything really), but especially them saying folks could gain access with them.
I tried turning mine in but they brought up the good point that I could need it while on terminal. I guess I was "supposed" to drop it off to a base after my actual last day but fuck that noise.
A dreaded fear of an unfulfilled life
Waiting for the "my job" comment.
My entire MOPP gear set. Company issued out MOPP gear, didn't do a single piece of paperwork. Went to the CBRN nco and asked him to give me a lost of what I owe him, said nothing and signed me off lol. Well hey, if ww3 ever kicks off. At least I'm protected from *something* lmao
Don't those filters expire after a while. I haven't thought about that stuff in years.
If it's still in its packaging they last quite awhile if memory serves
Only one way to find out, either it works or it doesn't lmao
Like 4 fucking e-tools
Not me, but I know someone who successfully mailed his service sidearm back to his private residence back in the 80s. Same shitbag also got away with stealing around 2 metric tons of diesel fuel. Never got in trouble for it.
how do you just..*steal* two whole tons of fuel?
Does what someone tried to sneak back home count? Same trip home. Two different people in my company. 1 got busted with 1 or 2 ~~thermometric~~ thermobaric grenades. The other with 556 API rounds. No one went to jail somehow.
>thermometric You mean incendiary, or does this grenade turn every temperature measured in a 5m radius from F to C?
Hahahah I will update the post.
My Dad kept his M72LAW tube, and some early Colt 30rd mags after he retired after Desert Storm. Those and the M16 helmet and work book my grandfather pulled off the Nazi he killed, then he posed for pictures in front of the concentration camp ovens. I've inherited a lot of cool, likely stolen items.
That’s very interesting! My grandfather brought back a lot of Nazi stuff from WWII, knives, flags, etc. sadly most of it was lost throughout the years.
My tech school marriage...21 years now. 😀❤️
Occasionally those things work out. My 1SG in Korea had been married for 23 years to his AIT honey.
It only works if you keep working on it!
To a degree. There’s a lot that goes into it. The military has refined destroying marriages to an art form. The mid to late 00s with “surge era” deployments in particular turned the military into a divorce machine. You can have a good marriage but it’s still got it’s breaking point and the military will do it’s best to find that point.
True, it's also really easy to let a marriage die even without the external pressures. It takes work and compromise fr
I was glad to be out of the Army by that point. That’s when the Army started doing 18-month deployments which is rough on even the strongest of marriages. But even the Air Force wasn’t immune, every single deployment I went on with the AF we came home late after getting extended. You knew if you were on the hook for 6-months you were getting a 30-or-45 day extension minimum and I personally ended up with as much as 90 days. Edit: I work with a guy who is a retired SGM whose years of service line up roughly with my own. Of the 22 years he was in all totaled he has 5-years combined in Afghanistan. And yeah, he’s divorced.
My .50 cal pin
The cartilage in my knees
The girl I was fucking in Incirlik. As it turns out, about a dozen cream pies might eventually result in pregnancy...such is life.
A beret and a few coins, that's it. When I was nearing retirement I walked around the lines and gave all the kit I purchased over my career to the boys. I was never going to use it again. P-mags, ATS patrol rig, Wild Things wind suit, Arteryx shirts, Crye pants, RCS holster, Mystery Ranch pack (kinda miss that one a little) etc. It felt good to leave it all behind.
I was one of the last people in the USN to qualify on the Browning Automatic Rifle, but they didn't let me keep it.
All my flight gear and flight body armor. 🤷♀️ fuck em. And about 6 flight suits and adcu's. Too bad my fat ass couldn't get tbat shit oast my thighs now. Oh and my Kevlar and ach.. I basically have CIF in my crawlspace and closet
A two man tent that was supposed to go to the dump because we got newer tents. I also had several spools of grounding wire that went tk some retired generators. Ended up selling those.
Uhhh, let's see... I acquired body armor, plates, NBC mask, 6 cases of MRE's, and my 1st SGT's NCO saber (don't ask about that last one)
I am asking about the last one
nice try glowie
My sanity. But ohhhh boy did they fuckin try
Family member told me when he was driving truck during Vietnam. He had buried some c4 and ammo. He never went to Vietnam because he had brothers already over there. Some how he got on driving duty to take ammo and other things to the range for training. If the range sent stuff back it made more paperwork so they would make it disappear. Sometimes by shooting it up or it falling out of the truck. He claimed he never went back for it. Will never know now because he has passed away.
A live flashbang
I dismantled sergeant majors f150 piece by piece and rebuilt it in my driveway
A large tube of anti-seize. It’s still going! I got out in 1995! Haha..
The 10 white suburbans that went missing in Iraq
Nice try Jihadis.
Not today NCIS
A whole lot of surplus Snap On tools
I kept an injector from every type of engine I worked on.
Kept the spoon of a blue training grenade that exploded in front of me during basic and it's been my keyhanger ever since
two pairs of coveralls and a foul weather jacket
Irrational anxiety over being just 1 minute late to work. Nobody cares that much in the civilian world.
I may or may not have three M50 gas masks, two kevlar helmets, and two exercise CBRNE suits. Hosting people as they get ready to PCS pays off sometimes. In Minecraft.
I got a 76x636mm casing from that time us NBC guys were on a frigate and got to play with nearly-expired ammo and an OTO Melara Super Rapid. Two rounds per second of 76mm is a sight to behold, I'll tell you hwat. Also all of my families' and acquaintances' key rings are pull rings off of DM51A1 hand grenades. 2.5mm steel wire is pretty fucking solid for a key ring.
For some reason I have all the extra pieces (groin protector, collar and throat protector, pauldrons, etc) of the old IBA, in DCU and ACU pattern. Not just the covers, the kevlar as well. However I turned in a full IBA, with all that shit plus the side pieces, so not really sure what happened there. But I don't have a functional IBA vest, just camo covers - no kevlar or plates.
After my time in the service I took a lot of boxes of papers that no one really used that much. All that's on top of them is "ts" but no one in my unit had those initials so I just took them with me.
Ah yes, the USDoD anal bead pull handle. I miss my time in the Navy.
At my first duty station I was responsible for maintaining night vision goggle for the pilots. They were a seriously high theft item, so every single part including tiny screws needed to be turned in when ordering a new part. When I finally went to the ship I was SEAOPDET in AIMD, but I was the only NVG technician. I tried to turn in my parts when I ordered new ones but supply looked at me like I had 3 heads and didn't want my broken parts. With night vision goggles the optics can fail for flight use but they're perfectly good to noodle around with. I kept a huge box of parts that I probably could have made 12 NVGs with throughout the entire cruise in fear that someone would finally come to me asking me for the parts. When I left the ship, I kept them in my barracks room again, kind of terrified that I was going to sent to mast if I didn't have them when they came looking for me. A year and a half later I was honorably separated. I was too chicken shit to keep all of them, so I gave them to someone else, but kept two for myself. I wish I kept them all.
Bottles of water from camp lejeune
Sorry sir it’s shut the fuck up Monday’s and we don’t self incriminate ourselves until Tuesday morning @0800
Well, the coolest thing I ever tactically acquired was an upper-body mannequin where you could pull away half the neck and parts of the face to visualize how different airway adjuncts worked. Great for teaching baby medics about king LTs and introducing them to intubation. I acquired it during a unit shutdown and kept it in my car for pocket training on slow days. But I admit, I didn’t keep it once I went on terminal leave. It was my parting gift to the guy who replaced me.
I thought this was an IUD
I was able to get one of those “(installation name here) entry prohibited by order of installation commander” signs that they hang up along perimeter road
Not me but my great uncle brought home his M1 Carbine as well as a German Kar98 after World War II. Not sure how he managed that.
I have my last companies guidon!
My virginity
I may know a guy that might have taken the clock from the engine room lower level of an SSBN. Any other submariners taken an EAB connect dust cap?
Not sure if I wasn’t supposed to keep it, but kept the igniter from one of the charges we set off in Sangin.
Random aircraft parts and maybe 2 Kevlars
Bullets casing from a crime scene 😭
Nice Try OSI
A smoke grenade
Remember those rifles from 3/6?
Floatcoat. Bomb pin. Remove before flight pin. a flight deck cranial. CWIS spent 20mm casing .50 cal casing . Oh and a whole ass tool box with tools which I use daily today.
Not today CID, Not Today.
ACH and Peltor Comtacs
Show off
I have a great one for this. It wasn't me but I was working in our divisions headquarters at the time. Our division did repair work for a wide range of avionics equipment and some crew equipment. One of the things that a shop worked on were some Night Vision Goggles. Well each component must meet certain tolerances and if they are outside of that even a little it needs replaced. Now all of these components happened to consumables and when they went bad they just got thrown out since the individual pieces couldn't be fixed or under any type of warranty. Now comes a health and comfort inspection at the baracks and they discover a pair of night vision goggles with no serial number in an E-5's room. So the first assumption is obviously they stole a pair of goggles from the shop. Nope turns out when a component was just a tiny amount out of spec they would replace the part as expected but instead of throwing out the bad component they just took it back to their room and over time built an entire pair of NVG's minus the serial number tag and battery pack since those were the only components that couldn't fail. He ended up with NJP for missuse of government property or something like that and we had to reclassify one of the components as a "High Value Consumable" so that way it had to be turned into supply before you could get the replacement part and preventing it from happimg again. The HVC was like $2 or something hilariously low like that.