Any funny war stories to tell?

[Weasel]

LOL - man I bet those boys got an ear full when they got home. Talk about getting the crap scared out of you!

Ok, one more from me:

While on a two month exercise in Meaford Ontario we were conducting battle runs using Cougar tank trainers. These are basically an apc with the scorpion turret mounted to it. Well anyway, we loaded our kit in the back of the vehicle and did battle runs for half the day. During lunch I climbed out of the drivers seat and went to the back of the vehicle to dig into my kit bag and get some rats. The rest of the day went by with more battle runs, fording rivers etc etc. At the end of the day we leagured in deep grass and brush and started to prepare for the night. Well Lt. Lepage (my crew commander) comes up to me and asks where his kit bag is? How the heck would I know, isn't it the back with everyone elses? Well we ripped the back of the vehicle apart but couldn't find his kit bag, and since I was the last one in the back it was my fault.

So being pissed and upset I went back to the front of the vehicle trying to figure out how I was going to pay for all his lost equipment when my gunner yelled out that he had found it. Apparently the kit bag had fallen out at lunch but the canvas strap on the bag wrapped around a towing hook. So all afternoon we dragged his kit back across Meaford and through the rivers. But everything was there, and it was all dry.

Just to make him more mad the next day I got the cougar stuck in a swamp, and that is when Lt Lepage utter those famous words to me "tanks ain't meant to go where the pussy willows grow".

I wonder if I was any cause of him quitting the forces and becoming a Calgary fire fighter?