[Roguish Lawyer]

4. uplink5, A Very Serious Debrief

Originally Posted by uplink5

During Desert Storm, after about 12 days in isolation (no kidding) followed by 48 hrs in the hole, the 4 man team had been compromised and subsequently ex-filled from the SR mission and returned to KKMC for debriefing. The atmosphere was tense; everybody was tired and smelly and anxious to get out of there when a serious looking LTC walks in. He gives us a quick breakdown on how the debriefing would commence and asks, "OK, who wants to start"?

We're all kinda sitting there waiting for someone to start; you could hear a pin drop. Suddenly, our medic stands up and very seriously looks around at all of us, then looks at the LTC, and says....

"A mushroom walks into the bar. Bartender sees him and says, "Hey You, we don't allow your type in here!!! Mushroom says, "Why not, I'm a fungi".........

It got real quiet for a very long minute.......until finally, the LTC started to bust a gut.

Best medic (and man) I ever worked with.....

5. mark46th, Too Many Singhas

Originally Posted by mark46th

Richard, I don't know if you were there at the time or not but I was banned for life from the Lopburi NCO Club by SGM Paul D. I don't remember everything ( A couple of Singha's too many) but according to Levings, there was a USO show and one of the acts was a bad plate spinner. I decided it was enough so I got up on stage and lit off a mouthful of lighter fluid. The only problem was the SGM's table and girl friend were directly in the path of the flames and kinda caught fire...

And then there was the Dusit Zoo-Orangutan incident.

6. Warchief, L-Shaped Podium

Originally Posted by Warchief

While I was at Ft Devens with 10th SFG in the early 80's the teams had some unique and custom built team rooms. Many of the team rooms featured a small bar area where the team would gather at the end of the day or week to decompress and foster a stronger team spirit. Eventually, the word came down from Group HQ to remove all alcohol and bars from the team rooms as drinking in government buildings was no longer considered acceptable. Shortly afterwards, our team (ODA 233) isolated in our team room for a Battalion level mission planning exercise. Teams were to briefback to the Battalion Commander and staff in the team room at the end of the ISO period. When the Battalion Commander came into our team room, the first thing he noticed and immediately commented about was that we had not removed our team room’s wooden bar. He was a little irate to say the least and demanded that Team Sergeant explain to him why he had failed to follow the Commander’s directive. The Team calmly and patiently explained to him that we had removed all adult beverages and our bar from the team room per the Commander’s order. The Commander said, “Well, then what the hell is that?” Team Sergeant said, “Oh, that’s just an L shaped podium of course.”