Posted on Mar 2, 2015
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Just curious to what stands out the most, trying to get away from some of the more serious topics that have been trending.

Sometimes we get stuff from well intentioned (but poorly thought out) civilians...that makes us just laugh, or just say "why?".

For me, it was 168 twinkies....don't know where they came from or why....but they were tasty with our morning coffee.
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SGT Ray Grooms
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Bubbles. One day, I sat in the shade and started blowing them. As I watched those small, magical orbs drift towards the 1SG's office, I heard his voice... "What the Hell is this Jack-assery?" I quickly hid the bottle and pretended to be doing something else. It was incredibly hard not to laugh when he came looking for the source.
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CPT Jack Durish
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Popcorn. I requested it.

The first time my mother sent a CARE Package to me in Vietnam, she included packing material to keep the cookies from crumbling.

I wrote back that she should use popcorn because an edible packing material tasted better than the crumpled newspaper she had used (and protected the cookies better, too).

The next cookies arrived packed in popcorn.

She was bewildered when I wrote back to thank her but asked for salt in the next batch.

"You're eating the popcorn?"

Of course...
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SSG Kenneth Lanning
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Good idea!
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MAJ David Wallace
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GI ingenuity at its best!!!
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SGT Richard H.
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A guy in my platoon, during Desert Storm, received (from his girlfriend) an auto-erotic device called a "pocket P****"
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SGT Richard H.
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**Mods - feel free to delete if this looks as wildly inappropriate to you as it does to me**
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MAJ Operations Officer (S3)
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Get that girlfriend an ARCOM.
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MAJ Operations Officer (S3)
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Oh, and SGT Hanner...yes....wildly inappropriate-ish......but my filter has been on backorder for a while now.

You could reword your post as - "received (from his girlfriend) an enhanced portable electronic selfie time device made to remind one of the opposite sex and used during free time"
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Oh come on you Puritan Prudes!
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