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Fire that really does hurt!

2005 Reader Submission
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Please know that I love my fellow Marines but they are not the brightes in the bunch at times. And sometimes just strait stupid. This is a short one but damn it is funny. This is a slush pile.

I was stationed in Oki back in 2001. It was your a normal Friday night at the barracks and a friend of mine was was on duty. It was late of course and a few of us had just returned from out in town. As we are talking we hear screams from down the hallway, so we turn are heads and we see this Marine in cammies with the bottom of his pants on fire running down the hallway. Of course this idoit is only making it worse with the wind he is creating. At first we are so dumn founded we stair at him half in amazment hasn't he ever heard stop drop and roll? Of course we put him out in the end and he only ended up with a few burns.

To make it even better we find out later he put the lighter fuild on his pants and lit it himself, he wanted to see what would happen.

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
(BTW for you non-military readers: "Oki" = Okinawa). As a former naval Officer, I have dealt with Marines, and I love 'em too! NEVER a dull moment when leathernecks are about...! I know we had a few bricks on the Navy side, so I can really appreciate this story! I'm still laughing at this one! He put lighter fluid in his pants and lit it himself...just to see what would happen! I'm just glad he's the exception and not the rule! :-) I'll keep this as a PA

Jack said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Hooah! (as we Rangers say). I have a lot of jarhead buddies and I agree with James - I'll go out on a mission with them, but in barracks? No way! And I must also say that this is the sort of thing that Rangers might do - just to see what happens...

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