Both?

FIFY and trust me you have no knowledge at all of the outfit till you work for them a couple of years .  I worked for them and the Shenanigans were  legion in number and global in scale.  

I worked three contracts with them and saw shit you only see on TV shows and Movies .

We hsd a new Lt. and on his first FTX in Germany. We were staged in this open field before the games started and he told us not to sleep in the Tracks. As soon as he fell asleep we got on top of our M113.  We showed him the Poliroid pictures of the six or so wild boars that snuggled up to him during the night.

I thought of another one. I was on the fantail of the Wabash and watched the Enterprise run aground in NAS Alameda harbor. USS Enterprise runs aground.

I was rushed out to check a hydraulic leak on a 141 in Mogadishu that was needed for a medivac. I finished checking the leak and asked what had happened to the guy they were loading. Turns out a few guys had found a cobra in their camp and that guy decided to harass it a bit. It was a spitting cobra and got him right in the eyes. Yes it was a Marine.....

I was there then and remember that.

COC violation...

I jerry rigged every vehicle I turned into to them just to pass and pissed in the oil filler tube when I drove it into the turn in yard..

How about wiping transmission fluid on the tires and the body . Then after a day or two there was dirt stuck all over them.

I pissed on them from the top of my M113 in Hoenfels

Just expand it to Anaconda as a whole.  After kicking the shit out of the Taliban and AQ since Oct '01, it was like they let the retarded General plan a mission in the spring of '02 because he felt left out.

Shit show from start to finish.

Equilibrator not adjusted properly =  brass gear failure = stern looks of disapproval from all your friends  (who you out-shot on the day run)



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Guilty..

Pretty sure that is where it was.  The field that had the old brick building remains.

Ft. Polk 1980. Movement to contact with M-60A1 tanks. SGM from another unit had briefed tank platoon not to go past a certain point unless they wanted to mire a tank and recover it. Went fine until four out of five tanks stopped where they were supposed to. Fifth tank kept on going and mired up over yhe sponsor boxes. No recovery vehicle so two M60A1s put cables on and pulled it out from a nearby ridge. TC got his azzz reamed out. I'm the one that reamed him (I was the PL).

Our staff drivers tended to use brake fluid.. especially on the soft tops and such.. looked great for a few days.

Our former BC went to war college and ended up failing out, went back to his room and ate his pistol

I believe you are correct..it has been almost 30 years

I have seen that a lot!

Did someone try to "adjust" it by beating holes in the barrel?

I went to Iraq and Kuwait.

Guy in my squadron actually used his cigarette lighter at night on the flight deck of the Nimitz to look for a fuel leak under a tomcat. He got 3 days bread and water along with restriction, extra duty, reduction in rank, etc., at Captains Mast. We all thought that the 3 days bread and water was a pretty cool throwback punishment.

We were in the chow line at Polk and we watched as a tank started leaning sideways and sank into the mud..it almost rolled onto its back

Specialists being promoted because they got DUI's or failed a urinalysis.

"Put 'em in charge of soldiers, that'll straighten 'em out..."


Though I do know of one soldier who went AWOL for a month, took his lumps and is now a 1st. SGT.
And he looks ooooold now.

Minot AFB.  A Staff Sergeant Tate was in charge of towing a B-52 from a hanger to the flight line.  His nick name was T.O. (technical order) Tate. By the book
Well at the top of the hanger there is a small door that has to be open to let the Vertical Stabilizer out
Well TO Tate forgot to open said door and really fucked up the stabilizer when the Uke pulled it out

We found our missing tug when the tide went out and it was at the bottoms of the sea plane ramp.  No one knows how it got there. We had “borrowed” it from the NAS transit line.

Biggest screw up was me trying to backup a M151 with trailer attached while my  Bn Co ground guided me.

The trailer wound up with one wheel off the ground and on the wall of a building.

I believe the coax 240 did that

My team was attached to a BN in the defense at JRTC in some pine trees along a 2 track trail.  Some OpFor BMPs and Tanks were spotted out in a field, so the Bradleys go tearing down the trail through the pine trees.

One of them speared a tree with the 25mm Bushmaster barrel and it broke off and was stuck in the tree.

I would guess he was a very regular at mast to pull 3 days bread and water, as thats usually not a first offense punishment.

Brass gear on the M2 .50 mount stripped out while engaging a target...  barrel drops and you put three rounds into your shroud before you can get off the trigger...LOL

I followed a lead Bradley down a tank trail.  It was dusty as fuck, they refused to issue the enlisted goggles, but the ncos got them.  All the drivers were enlisted .  A hard brake on the lead vehicle made me reciprocate, as did the track behind me.  The one behind him did not...

We drug 2nd and 1st lieutenants out of the top hatch for a while.  They were told to wear their k-pots while in transit, but of course, they didn't.  There was blood all over the floor panels and turret housing.  

Medevacs flew in.  1 Bradley had a smashed in rear ramp, another had a bent front structure, pak and front armor completely destroyed.  A total loss.  

1sgt and captain both took the hit.  Both were gone by the end of the week.

There is a reg on Ft Drum that NO CS ordnance larger than a grenade can be used.  Because.... our arty misread the grid coordinates on a fire mission and dropped 6 or 8 of the 105 CS canisters on some little town just off post.  

On my second ship one of the signalmen didn’t properly secure a halyard (rope). You can see them in the picture hanging down from the yardarms. The wind caught it and blew it into the SPS-48 radar. As you can see it’s pretty big.




The 48 was spinning so the rope got wound around it, broke off some of the waveguides (the horizontal lines you see across the face of the radar) and got wedged in the mount which caused the radar to stop and damaged the motor gears.

On my third ship I had a Divo who within a week of reporting aboard accused division personnel of sabotaging our equipment. We had a major fault in our system that rendered it inoperable. Not a frequent failure but easily fixed though the part is quite costly. The Divo approached our Department Head and requested a JAG investigation into the part failure because he thought we had broken it on purpose. The DH, being a rather senior LCDR, made the Divo realize the error in his thinking.

Another time the Divo had the Master At Arms lock down our equipment room and brought in some Data Systems Techs to look at our PC. He thought we had purposefully sabotaged it because when he went to use it little ghost faces appeared at the bottom of the screen. He was kindly informed by the DS’s the ghost faces appear when you try to use an unformatted floppy disc.

Some time later he was given a collateral assignment to run the Safety Check-Off List before gun shoots. On que he skipped the step to have flight deck safety nets stowed before a 5? gun shoot. Blew the hell out of them. The starboard nets forward of that gun mount looked like a kid had wadded up a ball of tinfoil and yarn.

I think the last incident was when he authorized some Japanese yard workers to cut a hole in a bulkhead in order to remove some equipment. The bulkhead was shared by the ships Joint Intel Center. Was kind of comical to see Japanese yard workers standing in the middle of a classified space. Apparently the skipper was none too pleased as the Divo was hastily transferred off the ship.

I had a guy in my division on that same ship who was always late to morning quarters. Even if I gave him extra work he'd still be late. One night underway I was talking to him on watch and he told me that he had the same problem when he was in high school. He said he'd get about half way to school and have to turn around and go home to take a shit. I told him to not drink any milk the next morning. That problem solved. He was lactose intolerant.

The guy would still be late to watches underway though. Come to find out he didn't know you could set your alarm clock for increments of an hour. The intriguing thing though is instead of setting it so that he would be real early, he set it knowing he would be late.

One more, same guy.............. so being forward deployed you do a lot of time zone changes. The ship would adjust clocks at 0200. If your watch schedule had you sleeping when the clocks changed you'd just change yours before you hit your rack right? Not this guy. He would set his alarm for 0200, wake up, change the time and go back to sleep. That didn't last long. After the third night in a row of that I got up, ripped open his curtains and asked him what the fuck he was doing and conducted some remedial timekeeping.

I swear it was solid ground (ice and snow) when we parked it there.

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All you have to say is Camp Lejeune. Dry cleaning solvent being used in ultrasonic cleaners in enclosed spaces to clean weapons before IG inspection. Troops getting it all over their unprotected hands and breathing in the vapors. Being told it was totally safe even though the label on the containers stated otherwise. Then when finished, dumping that stuff right down the storm drain.

When I heard about the water contamination, I said no shit. It wasn't just the damned dry cleaners off base, they were a very convenient scapegoat. I thought using that stuff was an isolated situation, but when I discovered an I&I Staff at a reserve center using it for the same thing, I changed my mind. I bet some fuckers somewhere tried to drink that shit at one time or another.

I don't think he was ever busted before. It was our skipper, CO of our squadron, and not the Captain of the ship and I think he threw the book at him as hard as he possibly could. Before that, most of us short timers were not even aware it was a punishment.

1985 ish, Fargo ND.  ND ANG F4 in landing pattern, base leg into final.  Meanwhile Northwest DC-9 also on final, directly below and slightly behind.  F4 goes over top of DC-9 into final, lands, pops chute, oblivious.  DC-9 does a touch and go, over top of F-4.

At Graf a PFC almost killed our battalion command team.  We were the first to go through their convoy live fire exercise and made it without incident.  As we were dismounting to start the AAR there was a burst of machine gun fire.  This guy just wanted to pull the trigger on his M249  and the bullets landed at the feet of the LTC, MAJ, and CSM

We used JPW on the softtops and it would start cracking after a day ...

I was with the 15th MEU and we offloaded from ship into Kuwait prior to OIF kicking off.  The BLT (Infantry Battalion) COC and the MEU COC were co-located.

Saddam got froggy and fired some missiles into Kuwait somewhere (I think Kuwait City) so the CBRN alarm sounded and everyone masked up and yelling gas gas gas even though there were no impacts or explosions anywhere near us in the desert.

After like 30 minutes someone comes out of the MEU COC with no mask and yells "ALL CLEAR!!!"  so we start unmasking.  

Someone comes out of the BLT COC and yells NOOOOOOO!!!! GAS GAS GAS!!!!!! PUT YOUR FUCKING MASKS BACK ON!!!!  So we start masking back up.

The MEU guy with no mask yells NOOOOOOOO!!! ALL CLEAR!!!!!!     BLT-  NOOOOOOOOO!!!! GAS GAS GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then they starting arguing with each other and we all took our shit off and went back to whatever the fuck we were doing.

Meanwhile the Brit engineers attached to us, that never suited or masked up to begin with, were laughing their asses off at us.

I was on the Roosevelt when this happened.

At Taji Iraq we had a bradley crew drifting a bradley across a section of road where dirt met a hard top section. The ended up flipping it on its top, the worse part was the ass was in the air. We had to get a ladder to get into the rear hatch of the bradley, got most of the crew out. The gunners arm was jammed into the gun mechanism of the bradley and we had to use the jaws of life to pry the mech open enough to get his arm out. It was mangled we were there for hours getting him out. The commander yelled at the TC the whole time we were getting the guy out of the bradley.

Korea: Had two new E1's put 5 gallons of coolant in the oil receptacle of a Paladin.

Iraq: Had our battalion XO get thrown from a MaxxPro and break both femurs after telling the gunner to get down because he wanted a "better view of the terrain".

Our first road march in Germany, lead tank was a fairly new LT with a brand new driver.  We got off the train and had to roll through a town during what appeared to be 'rush hour'.    

A motorcycle passed the column and got a little close to the fender of the lead Abrams.. the driver reacted by drifting to the right.    The right side of the road was lined with parked cars, one of which was a van that was a little wider than the other cars.  When the driver drifted right, the right front skirt creased the side of one car, then caught the rear of the van and flipped it up on top of a third car.

I think we had moved a total of 500 meters when all hell broke loose, and then we had to sit there in the middle of town for the next two hours while they cleaned up the mess and wrote up all the paperwork.



Fast-forward about a year.  We changed the tracks on all of the company tanks and then took them on a road test.   Same LT is now the company XO and as fate would have it that the same driver was down in the hole.   They got up to speed on a 4 lane highway when one of the tracks broke causing the tank to veer hard left....   knocking two passing cars into the median.


From that day forward the driver was officially named   "Ace".   (He had 5-kills)

No, they were actually doing it to theirs....

two E5s on a PSD got demoted for drinking and throwing a rock at their PL

four years of my life that i will never get back

Ft Bragg about 1983 ,84 had a night jump on Sicily DZ. A Major on Bn staff was the jump master. The Dz marking was A.
We made 4 passes on Sicily and the Major said that was not the A marking the loadmaster had a big pissing contest telling the major this is the Dz.
Your the 3rd jump we are flying tonight.

Nope major wasn't buying it.
So we swung around for the last pass either jump or go home if we didnt put our knees in the breeze the major would have to explain to brigade Commander in the morning.
As we flew over Spring Lake a town north of Bragg the major sees the A in the arby's roast beef sign and put the stick out the door. Paratroopers landed on cars, trees, roofs , trailers, busy streets. The SDNCO had a busy night rounding up jumpers all night long.
Never seen the major again.

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I added the caption.