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1. 7th or 8th grade. Just don't remember but we had a teacher that just did not like me but liked another student because they were friends with that students parents. That student would always get away with stuff that the rest of us would get in trouble for doing. Everybody in the class seen how it was.
One day while the teacher went to the office that student went up on the chalkboard and wrote something about the teacher. Can not even remember what it was but it was something nasty.
So when the teacher came back he saw it and demanded to know who wrote it on the board. Well this student pointed at me and said he did it.
The whole class said no he did not it was your pet student but the teacher did not want to hear it.
So off to the office we go. It went even farther as the teacher told the principal that he seen me walking away from the chalk board when he had came back into the room so he had caught me doing it. I told the principal that the teacher was lying and he could ask the whole class but he took his word over mine. Well that was back in the day when they paddled so I got a paddling.
Well I went back to the class and to rub it in, to try and one up me the teacher gave me his coffee mug and told me to go get him some water from the fountain and he had this screw you and just do it smile on his face.
Well the water fountain happened to be by the bathroom and I happened to have to use the bathroom at the time. So I saved a couple of "drops" for his mug and then went and filled it up with water.
I brought the mug back to him and told him... I peed in your cup, he said, yeah right and went to drinking his "fresh" water.:laugh2:
2. In the army your time at a specific duty station can be good or bad largely depending on leadership. If you had a good platoon SGT, 1st SGT and Company commander it can be great. You would do everything in your power to do a great job for them and not disappointed. The proverbial run through a brick wall scenario.
However if you had one of those that was bad...you were in for a rough time.
Now I am not talking about being nice vs mean. I am talking about being fair and competent.
Well we had one SGT that had no business being a platoon SGT. We had three squad SGTs. Two very good SGTs (one a ranger) and then we had one bad squad SGT. Guy's uniform and boots always looked bad. He was as dumb as a box of rocks and I swear to you the guy looked like Bull from Night Court (for those old enough to remember the show) but with hair. Guy even had some of the same mannerisms as him. It was really freaky.
Well he was a major kiss up to our Platoon SGT and always got good evaluations. While the other two SGTs that were much better never got good evaluations because they were not butt kissers.
Anyways we were in an Ambulance Platoon but our Platoon SGT refused to let us carry some equipment in our Ambulance and med bags. One of them being IV Needles. Keep in mind that we went out to the field more than any other unit because we not only went out with our own company/battalion for field exercises. But we also went out to provide ambulance support for other units when they went out for field exercises or even just for weapons qualifications or railheads. So in other words anything could happen and we needed all the equipment we could get. But she was so afraid of needles coming up missing or some silly stuff that made no sense. So we had everything to give an IV except...IV Needles.
Well a few times we actually needed IV needles on a mission but did not have any so the company we had went out with called our 1st SGT asking why the medics they had attached to them did not have IV needles and the 1st SGT asked why we did not. We informed him that our Platoon SGT refused to allow us to have needles. He asks her if it was true and she, covering her own skin, said that it was not true. We could get IV needles any time we needed them as long as we let her know. Even the 2 of the 3 squad SGTs just looked at her with their mouths ajar. Of course the other one, the butt kisser who always got good evaluations, shook his head yes like he agreed with her.
I had a look on my face like I was getting ready to blast her for the whole company HQ to hear but a buddy of mine seen the look on my face, grabbed my arm and just shook his head no.
Even the new LT (was just assigned to our platoon earlier that week) apologized after the meeting as she did not know the history but knew the Platoon SGT was lying. So we were not mad at the new LT, plus it didn't hurt that the new LT was SMOKING hot little lady.
So about a week or two later we got our revenge on both the Platoon SGT and the butt kissing squad SGT.
For the squad SGT. For some reason he always kept an extra uniform and pair of boots in our platoon building. Well one of my buddies took a hacksaw to the dudes boots and tore the heck out of them. Then another buddy took spray paint and painted stuff all over his uniform. Including what was to look like a pair of lips on the backside of the pants although it turned out just looking like a blob of red paint.:laugh2:
Now for the Platoon SGT. We were thankful that she was leaving for another duty station. Everyone was happy about it, except for the butt kisser. So she had about a week to go and she brought in all of her equipment to turn into the supply SGT and the Supply depot. Stuff like the pup tent, Helmet, protective (gas) mask and other equipment.
She kept the stuff in her office and during the week she was cleaning them to turn in on Friday as part of her out processing. When she finished she put all of her stuff in a duffle bag to be ready to turn in on Friday.
Well one day after work we went back into the office on a dirty dozen mission.
Well let's just say that when she went to turn in some gear she was short a kevlar helmet, a protective mask and pup tent.:laugh2:
She was furious when she came back because she had to go buy new equipment before they would sign her out processing paper work and she was due to catch a flight on Monday.
She blamed us all and of course we did the innocent act. She was not buying it and said she would turn everyone of us in. To our surprise the two good SGTs and the new LT stepped up. They told her that she had no proof that any of us did it and if she tried to press the issue and get us in trouble they would be sure to tell the 1st SGT, Company Commander, SGT Major and Battalion commander that she flat out lied about the needles. They basically told her to take her medicine and move on to her next duty station with a life lesson.
That felt pretty good.
One day while the teacher went to the office that student went up on the chalkboard and wrote something about the teacher. Can not even remember what it was but it was something nasty.
So when the teacher came back he saw it and demanded to know who wrote it on the board. Well this student pointed at me and said he did it.
The whole class said no he did not it was your pet student but the teacher did not want to hear it.
So off to the office we go. It went even farther as the teacher told the principal that he seen me walking away from the chalk board when he had came back into the room so he had caught me doing it. I told the principal that the teacher was lying and he could ask the whole class but he took his word over mine. Well that was back in the day when they paddled so I got a paddling.
Well I went back to the class and to rub it in, to try and one up me the teacher gave me his coffee mug and told me to go get him some water from the fountain and he had this screw you and just do it smile on his face.
Well the water fountain happened to be by the bathroom and I happened to have to use the bathroom at the time. So I saved a couple of "drops" for his mug and then went and filled it up with water.
I brought the mug back to him and told him... I peed in your cup, he said, yeah right and went to drinking his "fresh" water.:laugh2:
2. In the army your time at a specific duty station can be good or bad largely depending on leadership. If you had a good platoon SGT, 1st SGT and Company commander it can be great. You would do everything in your power to do a great job for them and not disappointed. The proverbial run through a brick wall scenario.
However if you had one of those that was bad...you were in for a rough time.
Now I am not talking about being nice vs mean. I am talking about being fair and competent.
Well we had one SGT that had no business being a platoon SGT. We had three squad SGTs. Two very good SGTs (one a ranger) and then we had one bad squad SGT. Guy's uniform and boots always looked bad. He was as dumb as a box of rocks and I swear to you the guy looked like Bull from Night Court (for those old enough to remember the show) but with hair. Guy even had some of the same mannerisms as him. It was really freaky.
Well he was a major kiss up to our Platoon SGT and always got good evaluations. While the other two SGTs that were much better never got good evaluations because they were not butt kissers.
Anyways we were in an Ambulance Platoon but our Platoon SGT refused to let us carry some equipment in our Ambulance and med bags. One of them being IV Needles. Keep in mind that we went out to the field more than any other unit because we not only went out with our own company/battalion for field exercises. But we also went out to provide ambulance support for other units when they went out for field exercises or even just for weapons qualifications or railheads. So in other words anything could happen and we needed all the equipment we could get. But she was so afraid of needles coming up missing or some silly stuff that made no sense. So we had everything to give an IV except...IV Needles.
Well a few times we actually needed IV needles on a mission but did not have any so the company we had went out with called our 1st SGT asking why the medics they had attached to them did not have IV needles and the 1st SGT asked why we did not. We informed him that our Platoon SGT refused to allow us to have needles. He asks her if it was true and she, covering her own skin, said that it was not true. We could get IV needles any time we needed them as long as we let her know. Even the 2 of the 3 squad SGTs just looked at her with their mouths ajar. Of course the other one, the butt kisser who always got good evaluations, shook his head yes like he agreed with her.
I had a look on my face like I was getting ready to blast her for the whole company HQ to hear but a buddy of mine seen the look on my face, grabbed my arm and just shook his head no.
Even the new LT (was just assigned to our platoon earlier that week) apologized after the meeting as she did not know the history but knew the Platoon SGT was lying. So we were not mad at the new LT, plus it didn't hurt that the new LT was SMOKING hot little lady.
So about a week or two later we got our revenge on both the Platoon SGT and the butt kissing squad SGT.
For the squad SGT. For some reason he always kept an extra uniform and pair of boots in our platoon building. Well one of my buddies took a hacksaw to the dudes boots and tore the heck out of them. Then another buddy took spray paint and painted stuff all over his uniform. Including what was to look like a pair of lips on the backside of the pants although it turned out just looking like a blob of red paint.:laugh2:
Now for the Platoon SGT. We were thankful that she was leaving for another duty station. Everyone was happy about it, except for the butt kisser. So she had about a week to go and she brought in all of her equipment to turn into the supply SGT and the Supply depot. Stuff like the pup tent, Helmet, protective (gas) mask and other equipment.
She kept the stuff in her office and during the week she was cleaning them to turn in on Friday as part of her out processing. When she finished she put all of her stuff in a duffle bag to be ready to turn in on Friday.
Well one day after work we went back into the office on a dirty dozen mission.
Well let's just say that when she went to turn in some gear she was short a kevlar helmet, a protective mask and pup tent.:laugh2:
She was furious when she came back because she had to go buy new equipment before they would sign her out processing paper work and she was due to catch a flight on Monday.
She blamed us all and of course we did the innocent act. She was not buying it and said she would turn everyone of us in. To our surprise the two good SGTs and the new LT stepped up. They told her that she had no proof that any of us did it and if she tried to press the issue and get us in trouble they would be sure to tell the 1st SGT, Company Commander, SGT Major and Battalion commander that she flat out lied about the needles. They basically told her to take her medicine and move on to her next duty station with a life lesson.
That felt pretty good.