r/MilitaryStories - ALL 261 sailors were INFECTED...

[Music] what's up guys welcome to daily dose of Reddit this is your host that is struggling very hard to learn to play the piano Zach or captain Zach whichever one yell one let me know in the comments below captain Zach in case you don't know is my voice II hear the alias I guess and over here I'm just Zach Zach because this is the solo show but you know what in case y'all prefer the nostalgic captain Zach just let me know I'll probably change it up if y'all requested enough all right this story's called teaching captain a lesson the hard way here are our players there's me Master Sergeant who was my supervisor captain westport who was part of the office staff Lieutenant Colonel bossman when I was enlisted in the US Army I served as an administrative specialist and vehicle driver for a brigade operations as three office I got the job not through taking a relevant training course but because the soldier who did take that course and serve in that slot was leaving the army and somebody learned I could also type at the time the other specialist left I typed 25 to 30 words per minute and he typed over 100 words per minute I got better over time after doing that job for a little over a year we got a new staff officer in captain West Point he was absolutely certain he was God's gift to any units he graced with his presence at the time of the story he had already shown his incompetence in several areas and was on every NCOs and enlisted soldiers short list of least likely to find his ass with both hands captain comes to me one Friday as I'm getting ready to leave he drops eight pages of handwritten text front and back in my inbox I need this for Monday he turns to leave and I stopped him sir when are you presenting this it's end of week and I already turned everything off he turned and stared at me I made this for a meeting with lieutenant colonel at 8 o'clock on Monday he turned and left well crap I guess I'm working extra this weekend and there's no way I'm gonna have him available to review the draft to catch any possible mistakes Ori wordings so it's all on me that happened again twice more in the next six weeks walk up at end of day drop a pile in my basket say he needs it for the next work day then walk away but that third time my supervisor saw him as I was turning my word processor back on dinosaur predecessor to the PC he approached me no as he knew that a lot I nodded every two or three weeks always end of day always do next day that craps gonna stop he walked away and I went back to work scroll ahead three weeks its annual review time every unit is rolling up its status reports for the previous year's activities and plans for the next year for presentation up the chain my boss Lieutenant Colonel comes to my desk at 3:00 p.m. I stop what I'm doing and he hands me three pieces of paper how long will it take you to top this up for me to present I quickly leave through it skimming the content about two hours sir give or take with one of you and making corrections he looks me straight in the eye and says this is Flast traffic and once you finish it you are at least for the day weird but flash traffic yes sir he walked away just after four o'clock I'm working on the final draft captain comes up and drops paper in my Inbox I need this for tomorrow he turns to leave and I say sorry sir but Lieutenant Colonel has me working on a flash priority I can't do it he stares at me again dumont after his then he turns again I can't sir Lieutenant Colonel said that when I am done with his flash I am released for the day he stared at me for a few seconds then walked away and knocked on lieutenant Colonel's door i sat close enough that I could hear Lieutenant Colonel laying into him for waiting until the last minute to get his report done and refusing to order me to do it for him when I was done with lieutenant Colonel's report the captain was waiting for me outside of lieutenant Colonel's office door he asked me to show him how to use the processor I set him up with a blank document and walked away when I walked in the next morning at 7 o'clock captain was there by the look of him he never left quietly frustrated he had gotten himself stuck in one of the system menus with no idea how to get out I politely got him out of my chair backed out of the menus to his document and took over the work he had completed maybe a third of what he wanted me to do I completed the rest before 8 o'clock and handed it to him in time for his meeting this happened twice more before I left that unit lieutenant colonel comes to me close to end of day flash traffic and leave when you are done captain wants to queue work for after that and is refused it was the second time the flash scenario happened that I figured out that the Lieutenant Colonel after getting a heads up from monosodium glutamate sorry master sergeant was trying to teach captain a lesson I hope he eventually learned his lesson but it didn't happen while I was still there so in the military you are a salaried basically employee so you can't get overtime is that right I could be wrong correct me if I am so I can imagine this type of thing happening a lot in the military because from what I've heard there is quite a number of individuals who love love flexing that rank of theirs and if so let me know how many times have you like been about to go home get off work and then some chump with a higher rank than you comes in and he's like hey do this basically just what happened here and I'm assuming there's not really an appeal process when it comes to bullcrap orders all right this story's called how come you treat us differently than most staff NCOs while serving in the US Marines 2014 to 2018 I was stationed in Camp Pendleton as a 3531 motor tea operator or a truck driver I unfortunately never deployed due to the retrograde in Afghanistan in 2013 and because my unit truck company HQ BT 1st Marine Division was full of incompetence white knight officers s NCO and NCOs who could barely even do their job don't get me wrong I have met phenomenal people and leaders in the Marines but they are completely pushed aside and replaced by indoctrinated bootlickers who can barely read but are by-the-book in my last year I was lucky enough to get temporary additional duty order cert adds to 1st Marine Division General Staff level office for logistics also known as g4 yes for the last year I was a paper-pusher which is better than being in the motor pool as an e4 or a corporal I was one of the few lower enlisted in the office I was lucky to serve alongside the greatest s NCOs NCOs and officers in the 1st Marine Division all of them were either mechanics or motor transportation operators so it was a nice gig throughout my enlistments I have felt more as a number until I worked in g4 they treated me like an adult took care of me and like a human being while in g4 there was a staff sergeant that stood out the most let's call him Staff Sergeant Rambo out of respect for his privacy with almost 20 years in the Marine Corps was a part of the invasion of Iraq fought in Fallujah and in Helmand province Afghanistan I was shocked that he was still a staff sergeant and not a gunnery sergeant to Master Sergeant her first sergeant the dude was one of the most humble salty Marines I have ever met keep in mind I'm a huge military history guy and I loved hearing stories about people serving time overseas listening to him talk about his time in Iraq and Afghanistan which to me like a kid in a candy shop one day I was working late at the office and Rambo finished changing over from his uniform to civilian clothes we had a locker room next to our office after changing he sat down right across from my desk to put on his shoes while putting on a shoe both of us started shooting the crap this was very rare because it was frowned upon in the Marines to talk comfortably as a lower enlisted to higher enlisted in officers I then asked him the question Staff Sergeant why do you treat us differently what were you like as a corporal did you haze anybody in the Marine Corps it's a common thing that corporals and sergeants haze their junior Marines also known as boots after asking him the question he just kind of stood there and took a deep sigh he told me that back in the day he was a ruthless corporal always playing screw screw games with his junior Marines and belittling them he told me that while in Afghanistan he was on patrol and one of his Marines got shot in the face he then said the night before he died we screwed with him so bad I don't remember exactly what he told me next but it was along the lines of imagine the only things you experience before you die is getting screwed with he wasn't emotional with his story but you could see the resentment in his face I never knew the name of the Marine who was killed or where exactly in Afghanistan he was killed all I knew was that this was a story that is true because of this experience Rambo changed how he treated Marines there are many stories I have heard in the Marines and I would love to share them on here I now currently left the Marine Corps in 2018 Rambo is about to retire and I'm currently serving part time in the California National Guard well first I gotta say thank y'all for your service that's a sad story back when I was really considering the Marines the recruiter he told me everything I wanted to hear obviously and I was really excited that the prospect of becoming one because one of the things I was really looking forward to was the whole thing about Brotherhood and he told me how someone he was serving with is now the godfather to his children and he's the Godfather to their kids that's the kind of thing I wanted to experience because growing up and even now I've never really had any super super close friends I've had a couple maybe but just some friendships they don't last and everyone picks on their friends it just shows how close you are how comfortable you are that anything you say isn't necessarily meant to be mean or anything you do isn't necessarily meant to hurt them it's just to have fun and mess around and it honestly helps you get closer but hazing is just all the bullying without any of the the niceness afterwards all my former military peeps tell me you're hazing stories where you haze did you haze other people alright this story's called how a training instructor was shot by a trainee and this is a non-us military service story and he'd also prefer not to identify his country for personal reasons I'm a firearms range training instructor or RSO and my country's army at a basic training center by the time I even meet a group they have been through classroom instruction on pretty much everything that can be taught in a classroom they have basic range safety to firearm mechanics to ability to assemble and disassemble their firearms to stance etc they've practiced with rubber replicas or inert guns on every skill that can be practiced with them we have 42 hours divided among 12 scheduled lessons and to surprise lessons to qualify them in m16 Glock 17 and Remington 870 this was something like lesson two with this group it's not unusual to have a range of competencies from farmers hunters sports shooters well-acquainted with firearms to city kids who are scared of firearms some groups are horrible some are pretty good not a single individual in this particular group was below average and many were relatively high level we were doing pistols this day I was on the far east side of the firing line doing some individual training with one of the kids who was a lower-level within the group just working on the draw with him suddenly I hear lots of yelling from the other two RSOs then the company TI's and the sound of a scuffle we don't really do a lot of that type of yelling in the military where I'm from we yell for volume in distance coverage but very rarely for aggression or intimidation this was the latter time someone really screwed up I gave the ceasefire command had everybody freeze and went to the far west side of the line where this was going down I don't know what the hell happened but the other two range T is in the company t eyes were on top of this kid beating the utter crap out of him we don't touch trainees much less provide a beat-down unless there's a very strong reason so I definitely one has him in a rear choke and is doing knuckle strikes to the temples another has an e on his side and is drilling him in the throat another has the trainees knees folded up behind him is pushing them down and punching in the kidney area another has this kids elbow hyper extended backwards with me on wrist and his delivering knuckle strikes to the dorsum of his hand which has the Glock 17 in it I hop in as well to assist with the ass-kicking I'll be at having no idea why even using strikes to his fingers and broken wrists with a baton didn't get him to let go some heavily armed MP show up it takes like six MPs wrestling this kid with a seventh try stunning him repeatedly and the 8th holding a shotgun to his throat to get the gun away from this kid we have the company TI's evacuate the range while myself and the other two range tea eyes help with attaining the kid we were met with an ambulance the base doctor nearly the entire MP department and police officers from the city nearby at this point I still had no idea why he had his elbow broken backwards his wrist obviously broken was unconscious bleeding from the face convulsing and agonal II breathing paramedics took him though the base doctor an MP and a city police officer rode with still had no idea what actually started this or why it happened seemed excessive upon debrief and review of the cameras it turned out that trainee idiot was getting some direct instruction that he didn't appreciate while he was whole stirred up so he pushed back off the firing line table true the pistol pointed it in the face of the RSO instructor next to him pulled the trigger clicked racked aside then pointed it at his company training instructor bang and caused a deep graze on his cheek that's where the beatdown commenced holy freaking cow this guy either had some major balls or some minor brain weight that's just sounds kind of inappropriate now whoo but you get what I'm saying that guy now he was just stupid who the hell why never point a gun at anything you aren't willing to shoot but I guess this guy was willing to shoot given that he shot but just just don't do that well anywhere actually especially in a freakin military shooting range where you see what happens you get messed up really bad all right this one's called the great STD outbreak of 2011 this occurred in the first week of May 2011 I was a brand-new ly certified mid-level practitioner in a medical field acting as the sole Army Medical Officer onboard a naval anti-air destroyer that's among a fleet that had just wrapped up an international war game we weren't even remotely coastal we were far out into the blue water of the Pacific we were having a fleet-wide party cookout in swim call celebrating the Americans successful assassination of Osama bin Laden the party rock anthem' was blaring on big announcement speakers despite the fact were not an english-speaking nation we were right in the middle of swim call the party rock anthem' is ending and echoing simultaneously from all the speakers in the entire fleet is a request for all medical officers in the fleet to report to the topside of the submarine that we rendezvous nwith you usually don't hear that type of announcement unless something serious is happening and I wasn't the only one who had an adrenaline dump medical officers from the various ships in the fleet are stripping naked on the deck changing into trunks and swimming like lives depended on it as some other Western pop song I believe born this way came overhead of course there was no emergency we were being ushered down into this tight submarine and a rather expeditious manner though I had previously never been in one it smelled like a side alley auto garage ran by people who made bad dietary choices we're all crowded into the engine room a bunch of medical professionals ranging from nurses to to physicians and the submarines captain comes in they have an unknown contagious disease ravaging the submarine they say he brings a patient in who strips to nudity in front of us he is covered in a rash from top to toe but it's very concentrated in his pubic area apparently very itchy great exactly what I wanted big swim call super fun day but I get two investigates an STI we ended up having a runner swim to the fleet lead bringing sample collection kids I was the lucky dude who got to collect biopsies in blood from 35 different people then swim it back to the cruiser swim call was over and the party was wrapping up of course as we were investigating we had some submarines aboard the cruiser to observe we had diagnosis after four days literally every single STD there was we found syphilis we found herpes we found crabs we found scabies we found hepatitis it turned out a lot of submariners are really gay hey man what else are you supposed to do down there oh and that's nasty okay not the gay part but everything else don't forget to Like subscribe and hit that Bell to never miss an episode [Music]

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Length: 18min 58sec (1138 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020