If it makes you feel any better, Jersey, Purple Hearts just kind of happen to you without asking.
Ok, fuck you, squid.
"Good karma, apparently. And two kids."
Not quite the field. We're part of the Division J2 Counter-IED cell, and on a FOB literally across the street from the US Embassy. The closest we've gotten to an IED this tour is when a suicide VBIED hit a packed street market across the river from us, about 800m away, and that was a couple months ago. Our Navy guy is a good boss for our section. I still am contractually obligated as a former Army man to give him shit, though.I figure as a general rule, whenever one of those starts giving orders and/or instructions while in the field, you listen no matter what branch they're with.
ANd when they're running like a bat outa hell, they outrank SECNAV Himself.I figure as a general rule, whenever one of those starts giving orders and/or instructions while in the field, you listen no matter what branch they're with.
When an EOD tech starts running, they outrank anyone. And I've seen EODs in action, because a pair of good ol' boys picked up an unidentified piece of debris from the side of the highway around here, which is a bad idea because there are signs every few feet for literally miles on Highways 82 and 70 that say 'unexploded ordinance.' And drove into town with it! People have died picking up crap off the side of the road here.
Mhm. File that under "too dumb to live."
Well, according to legend, the signs originated after a Captain was walking along the side of the road, saw something over the fence, jumped it, and picked up the thing. He then held it to his ear, and shook it. The most recent was a pair of meth heads picking up metal off the side of the road.
...Okay, THAT is very funny.
It wasn't at the time!
Here I go again, missing the point, not understanding the reference, flown over my head :|
Should I pull out that one picture of you? I still have it after all.
Do eet.Should I pull out that one picture of you? I still have it after all.
I'll give you a hint: Musashi's are massive.
Oh, you getting... how did you put it, "slightly blown up" wasn't funny at all I am very sure.It wasn't at the time!
Mostly very loud, really.
Remember, kids! 'Adventure' is defined as 'Someone else in deep shit, far away.'
Yuudachi: Poi, nyan!
I've heard worse. Like the guy who found an old explosive cannonball and decided that he wanted it as an ornament. So he brought it home, brought out a drill, and began to drill through the fuse so he could empty it of what he assumed as gunk that was no longer explosive...
If there's some good thing remained from 32 years of uh, Soeharto's regime, one of it is that all people in my country learned how to not fuck up with old ordinances.
Oh man, that's what it's called. I was trying to remember.
