What was your "worst" support detail ?

**RIFLEMAN24G** · 10-07-2006, 12:45 PM

I remember while at NTC a few years ago we were at FOB Dallas and we had a huge pile of MRE trash, and all kinds of other trash outside our tent. The pile was growing until I was picked with about a dozen other joes to seperate the trash by plastic, paper, cardboard, aluminum, corrigated cardboard, and even batteries that were thrown away. WTF, we thought, this would have taken us all night to perfectly execute the plan. It was some gay california law or something. We were pissed and tired and could careless about California and decided to throw everything into a big garbage bag. End of detail.

**~~Skysoldier~~** · 10-07-2006, 02:10 PM

Burning shit in Vietnam. Do they still do that today on FOB's?

**RIFLEMAN24G** · 10-07-2006, 04:22 PM

Never did shit burning detail. The unit before us unfortunatley did for a short time. KBR brought porta shitters to our FOB and came with the logpac once a week and pumped them out.

**VoTrooper99** · 10-09-2006, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by CAL

I always hated Post cleanup. That shit pissed me off.

Fuck yeah! I always wondered why WE who lived in the barracks got stuck cleaning up trash out of the front yards in post housing. What the fuck, over?

Chute shake sucked.

STUPIDEST DETAILS: Raking up leaves off the ranges for area beautification. We had 50 guys and 2 rakes. The rest of us literally had to kick the leaves into a pile. Once piled, they were burned in place. No more leaves, but 2 dozen butt ugly 10 foot radius scorch marks. Not very "beautiful".

Rebuilding all the fighting holes on Camp Greaves because Gen. Shelton was coming. We had to redo the overhead cover on every hole in camp. Several DOZEN in total. There was nothing wrong with the 5 layers of sandbags on top (Army standard is three) save for the fact that the top layer had grass grown over the top of it. This caused the hole to be perfectly naturally camoflauged into the landscape. Couldn't have that! Command wanted shiny new bags on top of them all!

Dog and pony over functionality. BULLSHIT.

**ABN MP** · 10-09-2006, 08:53 AM

Man,
16th MP BDE had to clean up General officer and Field Grade officer housing. I hated that shit. Why should I have to clean up their crap. One Col's wife brought out some trash bags and told us to take care of them.

The other worst detail was burning shit in Bosnia when we went in in 95. At least the trash burning detail didn't smell and it kept us warm in the snow.

**Crown and Sword** · 10-09-2006, 10:54 AM

Can't tell you right now about shit burnin' but one of my favorite "Joe" pictures is of a 173d SP4 burning shit at a FOB in Iraq in Apr2003. Seemed like old times to see how far technology has come.

VB · 10-09-2006, 11:30 AM

Guess I was lucky, I was never picked for any real shit duty.
I mean I did the regular stuff, police call in the company area, QC, bullshit like that, but nothing like what you guys are talking about. The one time I was gonna get picked for chute shake my 1st Sgt grab me and said he I was needed back at the Arms Room.

**23LRS** · 10-09-2006, 12:28 PM

When I first got assigned to Ft. Polk, JRTC was just getting there from Ark. Among the stupid things we had to do there was getting on line with the BN and walking step by step through what were former artillery impact areas. This was in June, in Louisiana, with Kevlar and Flack Jacket. If we found something, we had to wave the EOD guys (who were riding on a 4 wheeler) over and they would come and determine if what we found was dangerous. If it was, they put eng. tape around it so they would blow it later, if it wasn't we would throw it in the trailer they had. I think we did this for something like 2 weeks. We called it dud-stomping. It was like being on one of the levels of hell!
So all you who hhave had a grand time training at JRTC at Polk, there is a very good chance I cleared the area you trained in.
You're welcome!

**RedFalcon** · 10-09-2006, 12:57 PM

Yeah. Thanks a pant load.

**Shamus62** · 10-09-2006, 01:59 PM

I thought being the "Jump Dummy" for the students to practice and then test on at the Jump Master School was going to be cool, and in some ways its was. I learned alot about why JMPI shit is done, and about the reserve. What sucked though, was being one of the three dummys getting JMPI'd like fifty zillion times. When the students are timed like that, they roughed the shit out of us in the process. The worse was when they would check those quick releases, and then grab em (plus a giant chunk of meat on the chest) and flip them to look at the back. Kinda like getting a double titty-twister by a gorrilla, 50 times. Had bruises for weeks. If it kept me or some other lucky Troop from being a dirt dart some day though, it was worth it!

**towedjumper** · 04-14-2007, 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by Shamus62

I thought being the "Jump Dummy" for the students to practice and then test on at the Jump Master School was going to be cool, and in some ways its was. I learned alot about why JMPI shit is done, and about the reserve. What sucked though, was being one of the three dummys getting JMPI'd like fifty zillion times. When the students are timed like that, they roughed the shit out of us in the process. The worse was when they would check those quick releases, and then grab em (plus a giant chunk of meat on the chest) and flip them to look at the back. Kinda like getting a double titty-twister by a gorrilla, 50 times. Had bruises for weeks. If it kept me or some other lucky Troop from being a dirt dart some day though, it was worth it!

That sucks. I am glad that we had another detail more important going on and they didn't pick me for that. I would be pissed as hell.

**zuluzerosix** · 04-14-2007, 11:25 AM

Guarding the IRC Cage. With an empty shotgun.

**Jumpmaster K** · 04-14-2007, 11:47 AM

2nd I.D. Korea, 1987. The Korean security guards went on strike, so Joes had to man the fences. For 24 hours at a time. So every other day was going into this hot ass tower and watching weeds grow. After my third or so shift of being annoyed and frustrated, I seriously questioned the wisdom of giving a young pissed off SP4 an M-16 and 18 live rounds.....

**AbnJack** · 04-14-2007, 12:09 PM

Graves Registation detail to help police up swollen stinkin gooey cuban bodies.

**Ferret_LE426** · 04-18-2007, 11:30 AM

I was on support detail in summer of 88 when a divarty HUMMV that was slingloaded had been jettisoned. It was west of Mott lake. The vehicle had PLL and TA-50 in it plus poggie bait. When we got out there all you could see was pinetrees everywear smashed with feathers floating and stuck everywhere. We had to pick up all the pieces of the vehicle it was hot and the oil made all the feathers stick to us. We managed to pick everything up after 5 hours. We then spent the next 2 weeks trying to clean feathers out of my Dump truck. I think those bastards in my platoon were coming in at night and putting more in there. Anyway it really sucked