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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
one FTX, in the Black Forest, a newbie thinks that sleeping on a tank is just too, well hard. He decides to spread his sleeping bag on the ground and passes out. About 230, we are awakened by screaming and the sounds of bodies running through the underbrush.
It seems that the newbie felt something tugging on the straps on the end of his bag, so he sat up, thinking that some of the old timers were playing "fuck with the new guy" again. NOPE! He was face to face with a German Wild Boar!!!! The amazing thing is that he escaped from the bag, without unzipping it, i.e. he squeezed his body though a hole less than 9 inches in diameter!
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I saw one of those get nailed by a tank at Grafenwhoer (spelling?) once, on the side of the tank trail. Nasty mess...
One time up at Ft. Drum NY, we had a run-in with some super-aggressive raccoons. They'd come into the tracks at night, to rummage in the CVC bags, so we thought we'd be smart. We taped up the end of an M16 cleaning rod so it was tight in the barrel, and loaded it down the barrel of an M60, with a blank in the chamber. Raccoon came a little too close, and BLAM, we let him have it. I swear to god that the cleaning rod went straight through this thing. He just turned at us (about 15m away or so) and hissed, but didn't give ground. Needless to say, for the rest of the FTX, we slept in the tracks, but buttoned up
