Dude, what is wrong with the Army?

[a2capt]

Or cell phone cameras, pocket recorders, etc.

Polaroid .. ;-) Take pictures. Fast.

[Senior]

We rode the floor buffers around and around like a rodeo in the barracks.  We chased armadillos at Fort Sill in the field.  It is crazy what bored GI's will do.  We about gave a guy on guard duty a heart attack when we appreared out of nowhere with chemlight liquid on our t-shirts and faces in the pitch black night.  All good times  

[cap235629]

High speed "pursuits" all over post a 0300 chasing imaginary cars.  Hell if we had to be awake why not the whole post???

[NCRblues]

If even a third of the things my buddies and i did made it to youtube.... well I'm pretty sure i would be seeing the base commander pretty quick 

Speaking of high speed "pursuits" at 0300, ever try light bar tag? or cruiser hide and seek? 

Soldiers, sailors airmen and Marines...when the time allows will find the best BEST ways to blow off steam!!

[Flying Pig]

I dont know about Airmen.  I think they attend group study sessions on their MOS skills and drink Sprite when they get bored.

[NCRblues]

you mean AFSC's skills right? 

[cap235629]

no they spend time on their UNIFORMS!

[SarDragon]

Even better than riding buffers is riding a GTC-85 starter pod.

It's the red and yellow thing at the bottom of the picture.



Why you don't ride a Huffer

[Al Sayre]

Let's not forget the nightshift buddha (TA-18) and NC-8 races on the taxiways. Another favorite was jacking up the CDO duty vehicle's back wheels and putting it on blocks just high enough to keep the wheels clear of the ground, but not high enough to be real evident; then page him to Base Ops for a VIP inbound...

[Spike]

This has something to do with CAP?   

[Hawk200]

Another favorite was jacking up the CDO duty vehicle's back wheels and putting it on blocks just high enough to keep the wheels clear of the ground, but not high enough to be real evident; then page him to Base Ops for a VIP inbound...

I may have to try that on my next deployment.

[desertengineer1]

Just had to share this...

Raleigh News And Observer
May 4, 2010

Army Blesses A War-Zone Lip-Synch

By Jay Price, Staff Writer

Fort Bragg soldiers whose goofy war-zone remake of a Lady Gaga video went viral over the weekend and soared to more than 3 million hits on YouTube have won a thumbs up from the brass.

"The brigade command team is happy to see that they also still have a good sense of humor and that morale is high," said Maj. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman in Afghanistan for the division's 4th Brigade Combat Team via e-mail from Kandahar Air Field.

The soldiers have a challenging mission there, and they were just having a good time and "blowing off some steam in their downtime," Baldanza said.

They did that by cavorting - sometimes in makeshift costumes - to Lady Gaga's hit song "Telephone" inside what appears to be a garage at their southwestern Afghanistan base, livened up with little more than a couple of giant cardboard cutouts of telephones.

The ringleader was apparently Sgt. Aaron Melcher, who graduated from Gramercy Christian School in Newport in 2004, according to his Facebook page, and whose mother works for Duke University.

"Prepare yourself for a fantastical journey," Melcher wrote in an introduction to the video for YouTube. "Right now this is the temporary version, we have more scenes to cut, and edit, however with guys always on mission it is harder to film than you think."

On his Facebook page last week Melcher tracked the number of views the video was getting. Last Thursday, just after midnight, he wrote that the views had topped 8,000. Less than 10 hours later he checked in again: "Ok everybody ... this can be labeled INSANE now ... over 35000 hits ... and multiple news stations have the video."

Lady Gaga's version of the video features scenes in a women's prison and behavior that would clearly violate the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The biggest offense in the tamer paratrooper remake, though, is a skimpy, vaguely bikini-like outfit crafted of straps that Melcher flaunts while imitating a Lady Gaga outfit made of nothing but crime-scene tape.

Gaga is slender. Sgt. Melcher is many things, including enthusiastic and energetic. He is not, however, slender.