Have a friend that was an MP in Afghanistan, basically just became an infantryman. Anyway, here's one of my favorite stories of his
>be friend
>be pinned down by MG nest
>call for some kind of support
>ten minutes later Abrams rolls in and rams full speed into MG nest
>no survivors
>his face when
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Cooper Torres
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Adrian Johnson
Yeah.
Jayden Morales
>be my neighbor, charlie
>in the south pacific in ww2
>joined up, hoping to be put on the cruisers or battleships
>instead end up on some dinky minesweeper off the coast of new guinea
>boring as shit
>one day, be up in the shitty little galley, getting coffee
>hear engines droning
>one of the crewmen yell out
>"it's the japs!"
>some betty bomber was flying low across the ocean
>stops making his coffee and runs out on deck
>betty makes a pass then tries coming about
>had no bombs so it wanted to try and strafe the deck
>notonmycoffeebreak,nip.png
>charles gets on one of the starboard side .50 cals on deck for anti-aircraft
>bomber gets closer, he lets loose on it with his browning
>bomber takes a couple of shots from the dorsal turrets, nothing serious
>meanwhile, charles got one of the engines to trail smoke
>comes about for one more pass, betty repositioned to be parallel with the ship on the next pass
>charles rushes over to the port side and gets on the .30, one of his shipmates already grabbed the .50
>as it passes, the two of them let loose on the betty
>catches on fire and flies off
>damage is minimal
>charles just goes back to the mess hall and back to his cup of coffee
>hear sometime later that another minesweeper found the wreck of the betty close to the shore
>he gets credit for shooting it down
Jackson Ramirez
based chad
>be some marine aviator vet i met at a museum
>takes me on tour
>we get to an f-8
>yep i flew these back in nam
>one day after a mission over the north i got hit pretty hard
>i got back to my carrier
>but without my plane
Tyler King
Legendary.
Adrian Collins
every part of that story was a lie, your friend sat around and didn't do shit but he can't tell you that so he tells you lies
Jeremiah Cruz
>Basically just infantry
M8, I was a mechanic who ran rabbit in an MRAP as a turret gunner, my driver was a cook, the passenger was my 1st sgt and the 3 shits in the back were muh 11 bang bangs
Brody Moore
Based and pacificpilled
Carter Green
Grand father was WW2 British Navy
Went all over the place
PTSD
Tells me it’s because he watched his best friend take a jap blade and neck himself
Died bleeding and crying on the deck
Gramps cries on my shoulder
Fucking feels man
Brody Fisher
>be my grandad
>minesweepung in Korea
>one day in the middle of a firefight
>gook tank appears
>blows my best friend away
>somehow live
He crys every time he tells that story but he tells it anyway. It brings a smile on his face when you call gooks gooks though.
Liam Kelly
Well considering the man has PTSD so bad that we couldn't watch Saving Private Ryan together and the fact that he got out as an E8, I'm pretty sure he actually saw combat
Landon Nelson
What I meant was that he basically just became infantry because he was national guard. He was still an MP but most of the time he was with infantry instead of on base.
Jack Wilson
Frendo big ass farm boy from Arkansas 11B in Korean war. Platoon charges across rice paddy towards gook position. Frendo gets up on dike, runs like hell, gook pokes head up outa fox-hole, Frendo kicks the head, head comes off and flys across paddy. Frendo gets bronze star for bravery or some faggotry
Blake Young
>be grandpa
>innavietnam
>561st CSGS, Pleiku, 1968, somewhere outside Camp Holloway
>chilling in a FOB, sweating dick off
>guitar was fucking ruined thanks to humidity and monsoon season in general
>gets bright idea
>grabs two friends, go off base
>meander over to a nearby Green Beret camp of some sort, I think it was their main base of the area or something
>fucking brick building
>hot
>fucking
>shower
>all three are showering, buck naked and happy as can be
>crash
>something rolls in
>instincts kick in
>all three freak the fuck out and crash through the door
>run butt fucking naked through the jungle back to their FOB
>dive into bed, all put on gas masks
>explain they were innashower and got gassed by gooks
>Sarge says okay, guess thats vietnam for you
>next day
>all their clothing gets returned in a nice package
>fucking used smoke grenade in there with a note
>if you ever come back without permission it'll be a real one
>grandpa is still scared of Green Berets to this day
Jordan Flores
>be grandpa
>reaction squad, early 1969
>still Pleiku
>draws short stick, night shift for reaction
>gets called out
>humping own rifle, shit tons of MG ammo and a few extra 40mms
>contact with gooks
>firefight breaks out almost immediately
>grandpa and co fall back to woodline of clearing, gooks firing from opposite woodline
>someone gets on the horn and calls up air support
>still fighting
>eventually hear rotor blades
>helicopters finally show up
>fucking spotlights light up the field
>"and all of a sudden I see a bunch of those gook fucks in black pajamas"
>"and then whoosh, one of the door gunners opens up and there's a whole bunch of tracer fire"
>"that little black pajama wearing bastard froze when the spotlight hit him"
>"i watched one of those little gook bastards get turned into swiss cheese by tracers"
>"god it felt amazing"
Only time he ever swears is talking about the war. Generally a very, very calm nice old man but fuck does he hate gooks.
Evan Allen
wat a faggot
Liam Myers
Now one after he got back to the real world
>be grandpa
>out of the war for a few years now, not in a good way at all
>drinking heavily at night, just started karate
>really helping him discipline himself, also just has always enjoyed fighting
>kinda surprised he joined the post office and not some kind of professional fighting organization after the war but whatever
>innabar called Killer's with brother Mike
>sitting at bar nursing a beer
>as usual, Mike gets into a fight he sorta did sorta didn't start
>all of a sudden someone pulls out a knife
>grandpa falls back to vietnam but with karate discipline
>jumps off stool
>rolls into middle of fight
>kicks knife guy in the knee as hard as possible, audibly breaks even over bar noises
>grabs knife out of guy's hand
>rolls back over to bar
>sits back up on stool, hands bartender knife, continues sipping beer
>Mike eventually wins fight
>bartender lets him drink free for the rest of night, grandpa never goes back because bars aren't good for recovering alcoholics
It's probably at least a little bit embellished, but fuck you its my grandpa and he's a badass because of that
Connor Nguyen
Lol so edgy here's an upvote dude :)
Mason Martinez
>look at all these MOS who got grabbed to do infantry shit
>saying an MP getting used as primarily infantry is retarded
ok retard
Parker Powell
These posts reminded me to visit my grandad next time I'm in town, thanks user.
Henry Miller
Hell yeah user, say hi to grandma too if she's still around. Grandparents aren't here forever and their stories need to be treasured, remembered, and written down.
Noah Brooks
Yeah I like watching war movies any more. I start crying. Embarrassing t as hell did not catch up on me for a decade. Tried just watching a load of them to rebase myself and ended up listening to depressing music and talking to myself at 3AM. Just backed off all that shit, looking at old photos or talking about experiences and am much better now. MY advice if it creeps up is just tell yourself its done and it can't be changed and just don't let yourself dwell on it. Also avoid people as much as possible.
Andrew Russell
I love my grandad, he wasnt really around much when I was younger thanks to my parents but I love listening to him. Problem is he's in his 90's and has early stage alzheimers so he doesnt talk much. I love him nonetheless.
Jordan Johnson
You're a good person. People should try and treat their parents and grandparents as best they can
Asher Wood
He controls his PTSD pretty well honestly. He can shoot guns and watch some war movies. The realism in the beach scene is honestly what hit him. Other than that he's fine.
Isaac Foster
Thanks user!
James Thompson
That's even more reason to talk to him, user! Studies have shown that talking about what people do remember in patients with Alzheimer's can help slow it down. Do your part, frien!
Nathaniel Myers
I talk to him about his time in Korea alot, he's come to talk about it more in his old age. I'll never forget the massive smile on his face when I called him The Gook Slayer.
Nolan Hall
I'm fine with guns. Don't like unexpected fireworks much
Juan Foster
Makes sense.
Michael Phillips
There you go! Checking dub dubs. Consider writing some down! I can tell you, as a student of history, we love that kind of stuff. Perhaps put it somewhere on social media - as odd as it is, consider maybe a tumblr blog. Just post his war stories and whatnot, that way it's searchable and able to be archived.
Justin Williams
I will actually do this next time I see him.
Brandon Fisher
Doing the lords work by calling him gook slayer
William Wood
The only good Gook is a Gook that never crawled out of its stinking foxhole.
Henry Mitchell
Holy fuck, I could carve meat with that edge, you fucking nigger
Carter Richardson
My brother was in Iraq #1 I guess it’s called desert storm, I was a kid when he went
Asked him about it one time said he saw people being burned alive trying to get out of a tank
Idk if he shot people, pretty sure he was a humvee scout or something he was in the marines
He had PTSD after he got back would wake up chocking his wife they got divorced he got help and they got married again
Blake Carter
My grandfather was an electrician in the navy during Korean War
The ship he was on took damage and it caused him to become legally blind and deaf but he could still barely see and hear idk how he worked for decades as an electrician later after that but he did
When the electric company would turn his electric off he would just climb the pole and turn it back on lol crazy mother fucker
He didn’t talk much the only thing I remember him saying to me is when he warned me about niggers he also used to call me George instead of my real name
Luke Evans
I hope they're doing well, if not I'll keep them in my prayers.
Anthony Roberts
I saw a guy get his knee demolished by a swift kick in a fight once, the noise it makes is fucking terrifying, I legit felt bad for the guy.
Bentley Wright
As far as I know he’s fine his daughter turned out to be gay tho and he’s not too happy about that lol
Robert Garcia
Dang, I'll definitely be praying for them then
Nathaniel Mitchell
Back to grandpa, but some of the details make me think this was him telling somebody else's story. I genuinely can't remember if he said it was him or someone else. I'll say it's him, just for ease's sake.
>be grandpa
>chilling in FOB, Pleiku, somewhere near camp holloway
>ordered not to fire unless fired upon first
>rickshaw or something going through the path they can see
>visibly laden with guns and shit
>commander is still saying they can't fire unless fired upon
>every machine gun on that side and every man's rifle is trained on this guy
Now for reference, grandpa went over because it was that or jail after some kind of charge involving drinking, I can't remember what. Got told it was Vietnam or jail, he said fuck it at least Vietnam pays and went over, but has said before if he was over there he was gonna try and win, damn it
>grandpa says fuck it
>sneaks off to a corner
>fires a burst into the air with M16
>RickshawSwissCheese.exe
>during the gunfire grandpa runs back into one of the buildings to try and make himself scarce, so nobody would suspect he technically violated orders
>jumps into building
>CONK
>smashes head right into one of the fucking railroad ties that was in the floor
Yikes, dude. I'll keep them in my prayers. My uncle has a buddy who was in Gulf War I. Dude re-upped afterward, fucked up his back when he tried to go to paratrooper school. Been in and out of jail ever since for drugs and what not, can't get any help from the VA. Fuckin' government assholes fucked him up and won't help him now.
Thanks, user. The historical community thanks you. All you fuckers reading this, you do it too, you hear? Even if it isn't war related or anything, fun stories still matter. They can tell us lots about the world your grandparents and such grew up in.
Cameron Williams
My grandad brother was in WWI, no stories but still cool nonetheless. He also grew up at the tail end of the Great Depression. They lived I'm a dirt floor shack and basically had to grow their own food and barter with others for stuff.
Jaxson Phillips
>basically just became an infantryman
Huh, must be why we were requested to escort them every single fucking time they left the wire.
>last COP, a prison
>MP platoon was there
>full-scale prison breakout occurs
>they did nothing, absolutely nothing
>we got sent there to basically babysit them
>while there, they had a 40mm ND
>right at one of our vehicles
I fucking hate MPs, every single one. Had a buddy in high school who became an MP, I fucking hate that guy now. They are worse than useless, they are a fucking danger to themselves, and any and all around them.
Tell your friend to go suck-start a shotgun.
Jeremiah Lee
Now that's what I call edgy!
Robert Sullivan
Wasn't an ND, just keeping you fags on your toes.
Nolan Gonzalez
>be me
>in Iraq as radio tech for unit that doesnt exist
>sitting in radio room pulling all the feeds for our operations
>major walks into radio room says the gunship are blowing up hajiis
>go to break room grab popcorn and can of coke
>watch people get blown to bits by spectre gun ships
>watch people get blown up every day for 4 months in air conditioned building in Iraq
Lucas Brown
>be army 11b
>have friend who becomes marine MP
>lose contact for a year or so
>out of the blue he messages me about how I should have joined the marines
>literally uses the dress uniform as a selling point
>tells me he's a trained killer and has ptsd
>me: "bro aren't you literally an MP"
>yeah but were basically infantry
>block him
Carter Taylor
They did that already solely from their day to day conduct. They refused to be responsible for their own personal safety, so we had to do it for them. I'm not exaggerating when I say babysit.
Hudson Bailey
Kek
Joseph Morales
Sebastian Ross
>Abrams
>Afghanistan
Pick one
Sebastian Butler
It was a tank okay cunt. I wasnt in poppy field land so I dont know what they used
Connor Gonzalez
The US Army has no tanks in Afghanistan. The only tank operated by any branch of the US armed forces is the Abrams.
Your friend is full of shit
Ryan Jackson
They dont now or never did? Because he was in at the very beginning.
Jackson Perry
Never go full retard
Alexander Hill
cnn.com
what's it like to be such a dumb fag?
Justin Sanchez
Fucking Helmand Province you idiot. USMC. Try being literate, and practice the simple act of reading.
Ryan Stewart
Not really a war story, but I met a Hurricane pilot at a WWII museum when I was young. All I remember him saying was that he could feel the whole plane stop whenever he fired rockets
David Harris
>Be in Navy
>Spend over about 2 years underway deployed during 6 year contract, between 2003 and 2009
>Ship was very hot and sweaty, not pleasant at all
>Sometimes, SKs were slow to restock our soda machines
>War is hell
Connor Nelson
SO NO SHIT BOYS...THERE I WAS...
Cooper James
>be my step-grandfather
>radio operator stationed at a camp by a small village 20 miles south of Da Nang
>local village guy comes into the camp drunk at 4am, rambling in Viet-english
>step-grandpa has been awake for too long to put up with this shit, and beats the guy unconcious with a flashlight
>turns out step-grandpa had been fucking the gook's wife
>gook's wife leaves him and step-grandpa hooks up with her after he stays in Vietnam contracting for a construction company
>eventually helps her and her young son get to the US just before the fall of Saigon
>be me
>born an AMWF happa with an Irish lastname
>Viet grandmother was a slut
>mfw
Thomas Diaz
Dylan Garcia
>never read a book in my life
>82 IQ
>join the army
>invade other people's countries based on proven lies for Halliburton and Goldman Sachs
>kill innocent people trying to defend their country from your illegal invasion
>unironically expect people to respect you
Fuck every single retard meathead troop. I know you guys have absolutely pathetic IQs, I mean bottom of the barrel. But that's no excuse to murder people for corporations.
Elijah Richardson
Though I agree we should just leave the junglecommies to cannibalize each other, preferably on stream, you are still max gay.
Isaac Fisher
ok but did you fuck
Robert Harris
My favorite Abrams story from Iraq was
>heavy local morning traffic into a FOB
>pick up truck in the middle of the traffic jam has hidden gunmen with RPG
>single RPG round hits the checkpoint
>next to a dug in Abrams
>Abrams comes to life and fires a sabot round at the now speeding away pick up truck
>like a cartoon the sabot blows the truck skyhigh and nothing but truck parts rain down on the street
Easton Martin
...
Logan Rodriguez
Tienanmen Square
Isaiah Morris
>he also used to call me George instead of my real name
My grandpa did the same to me. He was from the south and I recently found out that people used to commonly call any black boys George...I miss that asshole.
Joshua Lewis
>be me
>2012
>be 0311 in Afghan
>be a boot so every shit job is my job
>get off post at 00:00
>on working party to re-fuel the FOB generators
>two other bros in working party, the more senior of the two only has to carry one can and gets to hold the flashlight
>we're all walking back from the fuel farm, carrying 5 fuel cans of JP8
>flashlight bro is bullshitting about some and suddenly screams.
bitch_sounds.mp3
>WTF why?
>flashlight bro shouts that he saw a camel spider.
>looks around with the flashlight, sure enough big ass spider is right in front of us
>camel spider freezes
>twice the size of the baby in the picture
>other bro drops on of the fuel cans on the thing.
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>I pour some of the fuel from on of my cans on the still twitchin legs of the spider.
>without saying anything, other bro lifts the his can
>flashlight bro set the still twitich spider on fire
>spider makes a screaming hissing sound
>mfw it is a sound that I'll never forget
>mfw none of us need to say anything to all be on the same page about setting this spider on fire
>mfw we probably could've been NJPed for lighting something on fire which might have been able to run away and set the whole FOB on fire.
Luke Wood
>basically just became an infantryman
No, he didn't.
Blake Roberts
I'd love to see your 20 on the asvab.
Angel Parker
>be Pappy
>WWII
>inna Navy
>onna destroyer
>8 inch gunner
>target practice day
>Pappy's turn to shoot
>Idon'tknowwhatI'mdoing.AldisLamp
>3 miles off target
>"user! Who taught you to shoot?"
>"No one, sir!"
Literally no one. He was never taught to use the gun.