About two seconds after that poor young officer embarrassed himself the ‘all clear’ was sounded and the drill was over! Don’t you just hate that stuff? It’s happened to better men than him and it’ll happen again.
This cartoon is for the guys that threw rocks on the corrugated tin roof of my hooch, yelling “INCOMING” and laughing their asses … off as I hobbled my way to a bunker on crutches … and then fell on my ass half way there! You bastards … hey, if it were reversed I would have done the exact same thing. That’s what friends do!
You gotta admit it was almost as funny as the time I sent you out a door that just had the steps removed. Those were the days my friend and the memories that will last a life time. Never forget your Military Brothers and Sisters they are friends for Life. A bond that only we who have lived it can understand.
Amen, guys! 🙂
I remember a day I pulled a Michael Winslow (you know….the guy who does sound FX with his voice) on some FNG’s at AIT.
They had just checked in, and were striding up the walk in their Class A’s, each with duffels in both hands. I propped my boom box out one of our second story windows, cranked it as loud as I dared, and held the mic close.
“TOOM TOOM TOOM TOOM TOOM!” (I think I did a pretty good impersonation of a .50 cal. LOL!)
The dust flew below! Poor guys. I really didn’t mean for them to ruin their Class A’s. I did not anticipate them actually hitting the dirt.
And don’t worry. I paid for it. I walked up, intro’d myself, told them that it was I who did the deed. Since they were fresh outta basic, they didn’t exactly give me a lot of lip. I offered to pay for the cleaning on the uniforms, and did so. The least I could do. Needless to say, I never pulled that gag again. 🙂