T&P - What was the dumbest thing you ever did in uniform?

[RicInOR]

What was the dumbest thing you ever did in uniform?

What’s something you did in the military that was so dumb, looking back now you feel proud of it? Let us know!

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Or it could be that time you did the following:

• used "PIKLRIK" as your radio callsign
• boarded a C-17 while dressed as a minion from the movie Despicable Me
• named your battle tank 'Barbie Dreamhouse'
• fought a full-on battle royale with cardboard swords and suits of armor
• walked the deck of an active aircraft carrier while dressed as a Star Wars droid
• mowed the lawn … with shovels

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[Ura-Ki]

Um, yea,..................I'm a plead the 5th on this one!

 

[The Heretic]

I enlisted. I learned that the military was not for me.

Not that I was a trouble maker (not intentionally - at least not without good intentions). Just that I do not respond to authority well, especially when authority itself is stupid and hypocritical.

Also, 50% of the junior enlisted were stupid kids just out of high school, who had not matured yet - so that was frustrating, even though I was only 5 years older than them. I was glad when I got out. While I did some good while in the USCG, I would never go back (even though it appears the CG has improved), and I still hold some grudges against my then "superiors" and even the others who were not senior to me, for the stupid things they did that were unnecessary.

The smartest thing I did was not listen to the Master Chief (who had never spent one year of his adult life as a civilian until he retired - he enlisted when he was 17) trying to tell me how much harder civilian life was than the military, and that I should re-enlist. I wasn't shy either about telling others why I would not re-enlist - that did not make me popular with the senior enlisted.

 

[Labradorian]

First week in boot, first time allowed to the PX, I saluted an officer with my left hand.

If I see some officer these days, I'm quick to fire off a perfect lefty.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

All that I will say here is :
I did earn some awards and medals..A few of "good job" variety , some relating to combat heroism...
I never earned a Good Conduct Medal....
Andy

 

[Ura-Ki]

Lets just say, it may or may not have involved a couple cans of spray paint along with some special hand made stencils, and may or may not have used those materials to decorate a certain airframe I may or may not have been seen flyin in a time or two several ( more then 5 years ago, statute of limitations and all) years ago while deployed to a certain country some where hotter then Nevada in the summer! I might or might not have been pretty proud of said work, especially as so many folks got to see it, and even earned a certain older airman a special enduring nick name among those he was glad to serve with!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I might know of someone who has a name similar to mine , who .....
Added lots and lots of the lemon favored drink packets to the officers lister bag showers.....
Andy

 

[Tinman357]

I super glued a boot ensign to a toilet seat when he was blasted. Good times.

Then there was that one time I made a USMC Master Gunny lose his chit at a pistol range. I'll have to tell that story some other time. My @$$ is still sore 30 years later from the chewing out I got. I'm pretty sure that's the cause of my hearing loss. The sheer volume the USMC installs with that rank is amazing.

 

[dmmv]

I might know of someone who has a name similar to mine , who .....
Added lots and lots of the lemon favored drink packets to the officers lister bag showers.....
Andy

Randy Dawken strikes again!

 

[1371JarHead]

Lets just say thank God there was no tik- tok in Subic in 73, lololol.

 

[1371JarHead]

I super glued a boot ensign to a toilet seat when he was blasted. Good times.

Then there was that one time I made a USMC Master Gunny lose his chit at a pistol range. I'll have to tell that story some other time. My @$$ is still sore 30 years later from the chewing out I got. I'm pretty sure that's the cause of my hearing loss. The sheer volume the USMC installs with that rank is amazing.

BAHAHAHAHA