Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[Androidpk]

Weren't allowed to.

Right

[Taernath]

Weren't allowed to. Outside the PB in Afghan there were massive fields of opium and marijuana. Opium is actually damn beautiful when blooming. The place looks like fucking mars, colorless and all that, but the poppy plants are so colorful when they bloom. It just stood out.

One time one of the ABPs at some random checkpoint offered me some local dip. I didn't know, but it had opium mixed in it. Fucked me up the rest of the day. Good thing there are no piss tests in the wasteland.

[Gelston]

Right

Nope. Only the ANA could. Smoke that shit in the Marines and you are getting an OTH.

[Gelston]

One time one of the ABPs at some random checkpoint offered me some local dip. I didn't know, but it had opium mixed in it. Fucked me up the rest of the day. Good thing there are no piss tests in the wasteland.

We had them the day we got back.

[Androidpk]

So much for when in Rome. Did you ever have journalists/civies with you on the MEU it at sea?

[Gelston]

So much for when in Rome. Did you ever have journalists/civies with you on the MEU it at sea?

Not on my ship. That whole Maersk Alabama pirate thing happened when I was out there. Captain Phillips and the pirate was flown to one of our ships (USS Boxer). We pulled up along side the Maersk Alabama to get the Marines we put on it after the incident.

Only time I saw media was when I was on a MiTT in Iraq and the BBC interviewed a couple of our officers.

[Androidpk]

Figures you're a wasp. Racist!

[Gelston]

Figures you're a wasp. Racist!

Not a protestant. Also, I was on the USS Comstock.

[Candor]

A scamming telemarketer called today and used the caller ID of a friend. I was not happy about it and used every four letter word I could think of to describe the caller and his family. It made no difference - he just kept on with his script. Should have just hung up the phone when I realized it was a scam call.

[Gelston]

A scamming telemarketer called today and used the caller ID of a friend. I was not happy about it and used every four letter word I could think of to describe the caller and his family. It made no difference - he just kept on with his script. Should have just hung up the phone when I realized it was a scam call.

Next time tell them "Just a minute" and leave the phone off the hook.