I was in en exercise at Elmendorf one time, and got to play OPFOR. I had intel planted on me and was told to play injured after everyone else in my group of aggressors had been killed so the defenders could interrogate me. As I lay on the ground screaming in simulated agony, the first young Airmen who came upon me pointed his rifle at my head and said “Bang, you’re dead.”
The evaluator watching was not kind to that kid, and I had to lay there in the snow while the ass chewing played out, but at least I wasn’t in MOPP gear.
Actually, in Alaska in the winter, the temperature outside was usually cold enough to make the MOPP 4 setup comfortable, and below a certain temp we had to take off our masks, so there was never a shortage of volunteers for post-attack recon sweeps. An ORI in Texas in the summer of ’07 made me miss those frozen nights more than I ever thought I would.
For the civilian readers, during these exercises, Exercise Evaluation Team members will randomly (for the most part) select people to act out scenarios and see how the rest of the participants handle the situation. They can be anything from “You’ve decided you no longer want to be here and go crazy” to “You’ve been shot in the throat by a sniper. Act accordingly.”
Fun stuff.
-Farva
Wish our EET would learn this one, phase 1 you don’t take anyone out…instead they “break the leg” of one of our weapons expeditors right as the generation kicks off. It’s like the WANT us to fail
Actually LoadToad, the purpose of doing such things is to insure everyone can still accomplish the mission. If you are unable to succeed the purpose is to get it identified and take the necessary actions so that if it did happen in a real world scenario the mission would still press on.
I’ve actually seen something like that happen in RW loadtoad. I mean, obviously it got fixed immediately but hey…*stuff* happens.
We had a guy, last day of an exercise, get his foot run over with a 6K forklift. Severe injuries can and do happen.
We had a tornado exercise today, and I declared 4 people dead for staying by windows. LOL!
(they had to go back to work)
off subject for a second.
and, from yesterday, we all remember the comments here when USAF started Blues Monday. and since then the Army has been laughing at the Air Force every Monday, and given Farva good material.
ArmyLT
June 8, 2010 at 8:46 pm | # | Reply
Wait, WHAT? blues monday for the Army? Monday is motorpool/maintenance day, who the frack made monday a dress uniform day?
Oh, and the “Army Service Uniform looks like crap when you take the jacket off…. Mall Cop anyone?
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LT I agree on your last comment.
FYI, the Air Force gets revenge.
It was in Army times several months ago that the green shirts, pants, coats since the 80′s are going away. The new non ACU UOD is the white shirt, and wearing of ALL ribbons, badges, pretties mandatory (unlike USAF) and the mall cop blue reflective stripe (NCO and above) pants.
One of my Army guys today was fussing about it. At the pentygone, evidently it is mandatory all days now, and the plan is office types, this is the new UOD. I’m told the coat is hot and uncomfortable, especially with double ribbons and such.
(and so, the Army can start their PX jokes now, IMHO)
Let me weigh in on this one… I can’t speak for anyone else in the Army but you will NEVER hear me make fun of you blue suiters because I fully believe that what goes around comes around… If we EVER have to wear that Mall Cop monkey suit more than once a year, that will be the last year I’m in. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Army blues look great with jacket and pants but when you take the jacket off and wear all the bling on the white shirt…
Oh…and don’t even get me started on the Beret…
Dang man. I wonder if General Casey got the memo? Last time I saw him on some news show, he sure as hell didn’t have his ribbons on! But yeah, I can really see that being a pain. I wonder if CoCs will start giving Article 15s for not wearing your “combat pin” if it hasn’t been produced yet? I can firmly state that both of my current combat patches will not be produced for at least 3-5 years if the current plan stays as it is…
And yes, the USAF can have it’s laugh. Not like it’s the only uniform thing we have managed to mess up in the past few years *cough*ACUs*cough*
And Mud Puppy, i’m with you… but you want the garrison cap back? as long as they go the Service Cap, I’m cool.
Otherwise, I REALLY wish they would have gone with the WWII type Browns and Tans.
I want to know what that little bottle is on the side of mini-farvas helmet… Purell or hand moisturizer? I’m betting it’s not gun oil, since this is the AF, after all… Though there is always the possibility of it being “medicinal” alcohol… just waiting for a stray red bull to fly by…
the rollover says Nam, so that also brings to question what is being smoked.
erm…. medicinal herbal tobacco? right? i mean, he bought it at the bx, so it must be good.
It’s all good maaaaan. Otherwise someone’s getting fragged…
Well, it’s the right size and shape for a bug juice (aka bug repellent) container.
Or vodka….although warm vodka is…aw heck who cares, get it however ya can!
It is obviously a tribut to “Full Metal Jacket” the real question is he “Animal” or “Joker” Of course if I may add an editorial hint, perhaps a peace symbol and “Kill” on the helmet in question since you are both Micky Spillane material. Ahh the duality of man
VD
Ok disregard all the above I zoomed in and clearly there is a peach badge and born to kill, Howdy Joker!
I need to get more sleep!
During our ORI in 08, I was injected to play a “crazy”. Problem was, our Lt and MSgt thought it was for real. When you have classified stuff and weapons involved, things can get hellish real quick when someone goes off the deep end. Long story short, our building went on lock down, the Lt lost a few years off his life, and it took me 30 minutes to convince the rest of the guys that I was ok so I could get my weapon back.
During an ROTC field training exercise to prepare second year cadets, we had some cadets playing as the civilians who were actually OPFOR members in disguise. One of them was targeted for being suspicious, and while on his knees and in front of everyone pleading to have his life spared, a new cadet thought about it, then killed him anyway. It was hilarious to watch as a non-participant, but so many of the evaluators jumped in to discipline and deal with the situation that I thought they were going to end the entire exercise right there
Ha, I’m a cadet too and I loved that crap at Field Training just because I could never take it seriously. As a part of the Medical Squadron I once had to pick somebody up because they were handed an ‘std’ card. Hahaha. Apparently they were not ambulatory.
I had a fun inject during a MARE. I was the barely injured, panicky guy, and was specifically told by the evaluators to demand medical attention before anyone else. I ended up in cuffs and was never treated at all.
Ha it sounds like your people did the right thing.
I never got anything interesting in exercises. The closest I ever got was having my Squiadron DO be a simulated casualty, and since I was the only one with a flightline driver’s license, I had to be on the crew transporting him for medical attention. He was “unconscious” so he had to be carried, which gave me the ideal opportunity to tell him, “Major, you’re a fat ass.”
I got a half-way interesting exercise inject as a cadet. It was a run here, run there, decode the message game during ROTC FT Prep (back when you could do that kind of thing), and I quickly figured out that the message encoding was ROT13. It’s not like that was hard to identify back in the days of USENET. So after decoding two messages pretty much half as fast as I could read them in the clear, they injected that I was “blinded”. Well, no more running around for me, what with the blindfold. So, guided by hand to the next station, they started reading out the ciphertext, and I spoke back the plaintext and did word completion. I wasn’t using my brain for anything else, you know. They finally just injected me dead so I’d stop making it too easy.
Cmon folks, you all can’t that young! That is a squeeze bottle of insect repellant. This kind that eats plastic.
Oh neat! MilLARP*!
*Military Live Action Role-Play.
Hahaha… bang, you’re dead… classic!
Hahahaha! I ended up being one of the Victims a few years back where they put on all that Halloween make-up on you…
The scenario: You’re leg got blown off at the knee by an IED. We’ve made it so that when you sit on your foot, it will look like there’s a bone sticking out of the gore. Go sit on that curb there and act accordingly. Oh, yeah. Here’s the other half of your leg. Just throw it somewhere to the side once you sit down.
I didn’t think one could hold back laughter that hard when seeing one of the PAR team members lose his lunch. I flat out failed to hold it back when the EET raters labeled him a ‘casualty’ after he took off his gas mask to clear it. ^_^
Yeesss… ORI time is fuuuuunnnn…..
Hah, wow, throwing up in a gas mask, THERE’S some nightmare fuel for a good while!
And I am told I get to look forward to some REAL fun exercises when I go to ROK in a few months, ESPECIALLY with everything that’s been going on!
I can’t beat that story, but one of my buddies did go to mopp 4 during a core, and a few minutes in remembered that he had dip in… yeah, he held it for about half an hr before checking no inspectors were around, peeling back that sucker, and gobbing the whole lot out… lesson learned…
Laughlin AFB circa mid 90′s. UPT student on his elimination ride (he either passes and continues in the program or is elimated from flight school). He got himself in this situation for airsickness over several rides. If you puke it is automatic fail grade for the ride. Student is out in the area going through several manuevers and realizes lunch is coming back for a second taste. He yacks into his mask but does not drop the mask knowing if he does he is gone from the program. He then proceeds to re-injest contents of his mask. The IP in question either ignored the initial sounds or didn’t hear the “huuuuuuuurk” over the intercom. Student failed the ride for airsickness on taxi in when it is time to drop the oxygen mask. He still had a little chunk on the end of his nose he couldn’t reach with his tongue. Enjoy y’alls breakfast/lunch/dinner
VD
I played in an ORE last year and was given an inject In MOPP4 after bugging out. One of my group had a person with their arm blown off…being a medic, I was tasked to care for this person, and after being instructed previously to take out my airmans manual before doing anything, I did and put I to the side and went into medic thinking and placed the manual on the ground next to me and proceeded to use the training I had and used the casualties reflector belt as a touniquet…when I was done, the EET asked how I knew how to do that, and I said I was a medic and have been trained to perform the procedure….the EET the tells me the casualty died……the next day, for the same EET I stabilized a patient with possible c-spine injury with duct tape and two MREs, the poor captains eyes popped out when I made that suggestion to use the matierials, and the EET was impressed with my ingenuity
seems like somebody finally found a use for the Cheese and Veggie Omelet…
for the record I’ve had that particular menu item 4 times. The first time was to “take the bullet” for somebody in my flight hoping it would help me a little in my peer rankings and to say I ate it. The second time was because it was handed to me a couple days later(funny how that works). The third time was because somebody else didn’t want it and I was still a little hungry. The fourth time was because I was back home at the detachment and nobody thought I would eat it. I made it about half way through before I grabbed a package of BBQ sauce from our last dining in and finished it off. Every time I didn’t heat it up.
My only advice to any of you that may end up with one is to not us the Tabasco. It turns what is marginally edible into something that tastes like metal.
I’ve no idea how it happened to this day, but I can’t recall ever participating in an exercise of any kind.
I do remember one airman who was in an exercise, though, and had every right to be happy to be in MOPP4 despite the heat of S. Korea that day. Let’s just say it involved an improperly hooked up lavatory drain hose on a plane that had carried 75 people for 16.5 hours and say no more, shall we?
well i hate when EET gives you an inject card that reads something like ” you failed to don your mask in time you died” 25 min after going into MOPP 4. and to top it off they were in another building when the attach hit.
ORI/ORE – Meh.
Allied Air Forces Tactical Evaluations – Now that’s LIVIN’ !
hey any 2w1/462 guys know where online i can buy a new checklist pouch ine has gone to hell.
My favorite exercise memory from an ORE at Osan AB involving about 20 MRE heater packs, a large water bottle, and a long staircase in The Command Post. During exercises, I was one of ten airmen assigned to The Battle Staff as a runner. By Day 4, we were usually very bored/tired airmen, so we decided to make the worlds largest MRE heater pack/water bottle bomb. We crumbled up all 20 heaters, but them in the bottle, and added water. We then sealed it, and put it in the hallway to wait. Then we forgot about it. One hour later, it went off. The stairwell made the explosion so loud, the Battle Staff thought the IG were simulating The Command Post as under attack. The IG Lt Col didn’t say a thing, so we ended up evacuating the entire Battle Staff to the alternate Command Post one mile away while in MOPP 4. Never told a soul it was us.
That’s one smooth operating IG if he didn’t so much as blink by the sounds of it. XD
THIS, is freakin’ priceless. The IG probably got a kick out of it…lol
EPIC! I wanna have that IG at my base! ^_^
I always here great stories by those that get the AWOL card.
I got that card once. Was working doorguard in the RAPCON. EET told me to wait about 10-15 minutes before I started wigging out. Heh, what was funny was the AOR/CC really thought I was loosing it and was about to put in official paperwork for me to visit Mental Health. >< luckily EET was keeping an eye on him.
As an Army PV2 I got to participate in what was probably an Air Force ORI (or it’s predecessor) at Goodfellow AFB in the mid-80s. Since we were locked into a semi-secure facility I was very bored, so when they asked for volunteers for something… I volunteered. I ended up in a moon suit rig, with the wrists and ankles and everything sealed with duct tape. Not overly comfortable, but at least I was able to wait out the rest of the exercise in the break room, which had magazines to read.
Wow, at other bases you guys actually get weapons and have to deal with OPFOR in your ORIs/OREs? Man at Tinker all we get is sim NBC attacks and the occasional sim sniper on the roof. We get no weapons and are told that when under attack we should hide rather than return fire. Because apparently that’s how it is downrange.
Funny story, once we had a guy get up on the roof and take potshots at ORE players with blanks from an M4. Sadly, no one had thought to inform Security Forces, who heard the shots and came running ready to kill someone. Good ol’ Tinker…
Best story I have–I was working in the Safe Haven processing line during an ORI out at Misawa and one of the inspectors jumped on stage in the building and let off a smoke grenade simulating a chemical attack. We started evacuating all of the civilians and certain “actors” in the crowd were falling over and twitching as we ran to the rally location. Another actor was simulating a pregnancy and then actually simulated having the kid when we were out at the rally point (gave birth to a helmet). After that the first responders came and showered us all down with a hose before we were transported to the hospital. This one lady leaving the gym next door thought the attack was so real that she actually fainted in the parking lot and we had to do a PAUSEX to make sure she was ok.
were either of those two players that shot the bad guy “arrested”? that was “murder”.
I can see some “JEEP” (Just Enough Education to Piss) or someone with a twisted sense of humor doing this. In my mind the ass chewing would be worth it though, fly on the wall I’d be ROTFLMAO.
I personnally had one bad experience during an exercise. Late one night I was waiting for a jet to return to my spot, I was sitting on a “jammer” (weapons loader), 2 EET members walked up thinking I was sleeping (in my chem gear and mask), not so as I stood up before they addressed me. They decided to give me an input card indicating I’d been “contaminated” with a chemical agent and had me go the the CCP (causuality collection point) and those guys had no clue how to handle me. After about 15-30 minutes I just walked out and resumed working the line.
Hilarious
HAHA! I’m a 2w1 also, and during load training I was given a “fire card”. I of course yelled “FIRE!” and my crew just looked at me like I was crazy. I then proceeded to yell fire 2 more times before they finally realized what was going on.
I don’t know what was funnier; The comic or story.