[QUOTE=submessenger;3024381]Another story time with submessenger:
(stop me if you’ve heard this one)
So, Haiti. Shit went south, for a bit, in the late 90’s. (edit: it was 1994, old man memory getting weak). Well, at least once a decade Haiti gets fucked, but this is my story. We stood by, for a bit, for NGFS. If you are not familiar with that term, that’s where you have a spotter on the beach calling in coordinates to land heavy ordnance - Naval GunFire Support. We had HE rounds, WP for nighttime illumination, and I cannot confirm nor deny the existence of battlefield nukes.
Well, we didn’t get to action on that. People were fleeing the island on anything that floated. We were repurposed to rescue the refugees and deliver them to GTMO (and to destroy their makeshift rafts, that’s another fun story which involves machine guns, grenades, and conflagration). You put a couple thousand people on the weatherdecks of a small ship, though, and you quickly realize that they have people needs, like food and poopage. So, we got to work on converting our refuelling stations (1 fore and 1 aft, on both sides of the ship) into loos. Curtains hung, 5-gallon buckets installed, and our head machinist made toilet seats from aluminum stock. Head machinist, LOL.
I’m standing watch on the forward starboard loo. My Spanish sucks, and my Creole is worse. Dude finishes his doody duty, and I ask him to dump it over the side. So, he takes the entire bucket, and throws it over the side. Loo #1 is now offline. Hilarity ensues.[/QUOTE]
Did you say Haiti ? I have a 2nd hand story, told in first person from a former buddy who was SF, and was in Haiti, probably same time you were.
Anyway, one involved a Ma Deuce and a Nepalese soldier. It seems that some Haitians decided to storm a position, or base, down on the docks. Can’t remember exactly. Long and short of it is, the “foreign” soldier on watch opened up on the crowd with the .50, and massacre ensued.
The other one involved gay Nepalese soldiers hitting on the SF guys at the (must have been U.N.) base. Much hilarity ensued, because the non-coms told the horny Nepalese officers that their C/O was gay…you can imagine the hilarity that ensued from that…