Any funny war stories to tell?

[Weasel]

I have a civilian war story...

A few years ago when JimVKrieg(yes, the big cheese here) and Baron von Beergut (he truly has a beer gut..) met with my family and I at Aberdeen, MD to check out the museum, I had an interesting adventure.

This was post 9-11 so the base was under more guard than normal and the concrete vehicle barriers were staged ziggy zagged across the entrance road. We made it past them and started up towards the main museum area, there were a few tanks situated along this road so we pulled over and piled out taking pictures and checking them out.
I noticed this camouflaged MG post about 250 yards away guarding the road we just came up. It was pretty well hidden from the road way, but our angle at the tank display exposed it.
So.. like a dumbass, I raised my camcorder, zoomed onto the nest and noticed the neat M60 with a guard. I was filming this and noticed his partner looking at me with binoculars.. then he reached for a phone...

A few seconds of this and I moved on to taking a picture of my son posing on the tank. Within 1 minute however, as we all started to return to our cars to continue on, we were suddenly surrounded by several MP vehicles with flashing lights and heavily armed personnel....

The officer in charge tells everyone to stay put and motions for the guy in the yellow shirt (that's ME) to come to him with the camera. I had to show him the pictures I took of the MG nest on my camera (it was digital) and I deleted them for him right there, when he was convinced there were no more pictures, he gave it back to me with the warning not to take any pictures of installations/posts or buildings while I was there...

All of my pictures were of tanks and museum pieces thereafter :)

As a side note, when we were leaving, BvB decided to lead the way and goes barreling down the road, around the corner and promptly into a radar trap going 40+ in a 25 zone...

Good story, but don't lie you were working for the enemy and got caught. That is almost like what happened to our major in DC. She went to Norfolk for a drive and started taking pictures of the ships, well it wasn't too long before her camera was in the hands of the MPs. They deleted her ship pictures but then she asked if she could get a tour of the carrier. They placed a call to the duty officer and sure enough she got a private tour of a nuclear carrier!

BTW- those tanks at Aberdeen are in really sad shape, and have horrible paint jobs on them too.