Late Night Phone Calls (What are your experiences?)

Way more times than I'd ever like to have.

Funniest one was a newly minted E-5 that got in a fight in a bar...
with some dude's girlfriend.

She lost a tooth; he got smoked by a beer bottle.
Girl wins.

Him - a weekend in the cooler. Since he was a corrections officer, and the "what are you in for" question definitely had the wrong answer, he was looking pretty rough on Monday when he came to see me and explain himself.

I was on "courtesy patrol". I drove a van to pick up soldiers from bars. I drove to a strip club to find a bloodied young kid sitting on a curb with 2 bouncers standing over him. I got out began berating the bouncers. These 2 huge black guys looked bewildered and explained innocently that it wasn't them(which was surreal) Come to find out he was heckling a Vietnamese stripper. Called her racial slurs and this tiny woman used her high heels to beat the heck out of this drunk kid from the stage.

I got the call when one of my guy had shown up at the gate drunk and pissed on a German Ponds guard because he didn't have his ID on him and he got mad. MPs got called, I had to pick him up from from the PMO, I took him back to the barracks. I tucked him in thinking "ok, that was a fun night..."

WRONG!!!! So, so wrong!

I get home, and I get a call from the CQ desk "Silva, PVT --- is being stupid." "What do you mean..." "He banging his head against the hallway wall and smashing all his glass wear in the hall, and he's cut all to hell" I return to the barrack. He is only getting more violent. I call the jail, to get ahold of guard commander. He recommends bringing him into the holding cell (where they would inprocess inmates) that way we had multiple eyes on this guy and I would have help if he remained violent, and we had cuffs. Once at the jail he thinks it's a good idea to try and fight the body building size guard commander and 3 other guards. Wrong. He ends up on the ground rather quickly. We keep him there until he sobered up and took him back to the barracks where he spent the rest of the weekend cleaning; the barracks, the ponds guard shacks, the PMO and the jail. Which means I got to babysit cleaning all weekend.

Fast forward to the Monday: soldier asked to go to sick hall because he says the guard commander and I were physically abusing him (thank god for the confinement facility having video tapes)- and he has headaches from us. So a few hours later I get a call from his doctor saying my PVT needs to be quarantined for a few days because he has an extreme case of head lice. The headaches were caused from him HEARING the eggs hatching.

So now I get to spend the rest of my Monday with the rest of the prison staff doing head searches on 110 inmates and 125 service members! And I got to call all people who had contact with him over the weekend- to include the PMO and the Ponds guards.