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I know that a deployment can be a hard and trying time for people. Being away from family, being in a war-zone, and having danger close are all hard things to handle.
With that said, I am wondering if people would share positive or funny stories from their deployments.
With that said, I am wondering if people would share positive or funny stories from their deployments.
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Stories
Deployment
Edited 10 y ago
Posted 10 y ago
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The Navy came out to investigate one of our 58D's that had been struck on the flightline by celebratory fire. The round almost came straight down and passed through the top of the acftand made a tiny divitin the concrete even. We got into a pising contest because he was convinced that it happened in flight........when the helicopter was flying INVERTED. I asked when was the last time that he watched Blue Thunder......adding "Sir" of course.
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This is a great story SFC Mark Merino. I hate it when the pilot needs to fly the helicopter in an inverted position... makes me a little sick! ;)
Thanks for the great story!
Thanks for the great story!
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PO1 John Pokrzywa
Inverted flight is the worst! As a prior gunner, it's really tough keeping the belt from falling out of the 240 when they roll upside down like that.
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Okay, in the middle of the cold war, on a submarine. Somewhere. :) We caught a fishing line and had to surface to get free of it. I was topside as I was a senior electrician and we had an electrical line rattling in the superstructure and one of my guys had to go in and clamp it down. I was on the phones while I handed tools in to him (Headset sound powered phones the Navy uses). A Russian MiG started circling us, obviously taking pictures. Our CO was freaking out. Then he waggled his wings. Our radio room came on the phones and told the CO that the Russian had congratulated us on winning the Gold Medal in hockey in the Olympics (spoiler alert : now you know the year). Oh but that wasn't the best part. There was a HUGE marlin on the fishing line and we wanted to haul it in and have it for dinner. CO told us "We are already in enough trouble as it is. Let us not add stealing somebody's catch to it".
Durn. We cut the line loose.
Durn. We cut the line loose.
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PO1 Donald Hammond I like how most (if not all) of your stories begin with "on a submarine, somewhere"... If I had a dime for every time you told me you were "somewhere" I could afford to move back to Hawai'i!
Though this is a story I don't think you had told me before. This is a good one, ranking up there among the best you've told me. Thanks for sharing!
Though this is a story I don't think you had told me before. This is a good one, ranking up there among the best you've told me. Thanks for sharing!
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PO1 Donald Hammond
What is really funny about submarine stories is most of what we did was top secret. So I have an expeditionary medal that says "While on board [TOP SECRET] at [TOP SECRET] location on [TOP SECRET] date performed [TOP SECRET] action." Yeh. In other words. I did something at sometime on board something somewhere. Wooohooo.
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PO1 Donald Hammond I'm glad you did something at sometime on board something somewhere! If not, I might have never had the drive to join the military as well!
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I figured I should post a story, now that we have a few up.
We were at FOB Shank to tear down and hand over the FOB to the ANA. When we first started this "retrograde" most of the wood from buildings and tent platforms was given to the LNs, which meant they were on our work sites daily. They had to have escorts when on the FOB, and most of the time it was ANA or some other security group that were their escorts. One day as we were cleaning up a work site one of the guys in my platoon found a can of butane or something like that. He thought it would be a good idea to throw an axe at this can, which caused the can to explode on impact. The local ANA guy thought that one of the LNs had fired a shot (which was dumb cause they can't have weapons on the FOB and are searched before coming on) and freaked out. He actually leveled his AK at the guy before he realized what had happened. We thought it was hilarious, our LT disagreed with us.
We were at FOB Shank to tear down and hand over the FOB to the ANA. When we first started this "retrograde" most of the wood from buildings and tent platforms was given to the LNs, which meant they were on our work sites daily. They had to have escorts when on the FOB, and most of the time it was ANA or some other security group that were their escorts. One day as we were cleaning up a work site one of the guys in my platoon found a can of butane or something like that. He thought it would be a good idea to throw an axe at this can, which caused the can to explode on impact. The local ANA guy thought that one of the LNs had fired a shot (which was dumb cause they can't have weapons on the FOB and are searched before coming on) and freaked out. He actually leveled his AK at the guy before he realized what had happened. We thought it was hilarious, our LT disagreed with us.
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PO1 Donald Hammond
What? An officer with no sense of humor? Never heard of that before. Seems the military is filled with people who should preface their actions with "look what I can do".
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