Strange how alerts always happen in the early morn? Most of ours happened at o-dark-hundred, except for a couple in the evening and one in the morning. That one was during PT, we had just gone to extended mass formation, and then the siren went off. I immediately turned and ran for the motor pool. Everyone else just stood there, arms raised in double interval dress-right-dress, until the Sergeant Major yelled, "Don't just stand there, you idiots!"
In their defense, we had just had a call-out alert six hours earlier. They must have thought it was a mistake. But it turned out to be a roll-out alert.
Speaking of alerts, have you ever been in a MOPP 4 alert and had someone so hammered they threw up in their mask, but were forced to wear it anyway? Happened to a friend of mine. He also couldn't find his HMMWV even though he was three feet away from it.
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