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you get through "a few beers" in 20 minutes?
dayum...
We're talking about a prior service Florida Man here...that's nothing compared to what he used to be able to do.

I bet he was a keg stand champ 20 years ago.
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you get through "a few beers" in 20 minutes?
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You’re forgetting the planning process, which I did not include in the total execution time. I cannot handle two craft beers at 9.6%ABV in 20 minutes! Good God, man!!!🤣
 
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We're talking about a prior service Florida Man here...that's nothing compared to what he used to be able to do.

I bet he was a keg stand champ 20 years ago.
Actually, joking aside, I very rarely drank during my 30 Army years, and I don’t drink *that* much in retirement. -cough-
 

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You’re forgetting the planning process, which I did not include in the total execution time. I cannot handle two craft beers at 9.6%ABV in 20 minutes! Good God, man!!!🤣
Must be a leg - a paratroooper would slam those down on the way to morning formation!
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Must be a leg - a paratroooper would slam those down on the way to morning formation!
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I think it's kind of funny because I am the exact opposite I did all my drinking back then and I rarely if at all ever touch the stuff anymore.

Too many nights spent puking my guts up in some random parking garage in downtown Nashville, I'm good.
 

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well, perhaps my perspective is a bit warped after growing up in a family of Marines,.. those boys bought their liquor in bottles with handles on them and went through them almost faster than they went through wives.


... I cannot handle two craft beers at 9.6%ABV in 20 minutes! Good God, man!!!🤣
 

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@Wabujitsu At least you didn’t drop it from 500’ in the air. Sling loads can be a bitch. I’ve got a photo of that somewhere.
 

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Reference previous thread where I whined a little about bouncing off a tree during a Jeep ride event, damaging my Jeep.

I reinstalled the front passenger flare side marker easily; it still works. Then, I parked my Jeep in neutral, wheels cut against the pull, parking brake engaged.

I attached a snatch block to an oak tree, ran out winch line, and attached that to a 30’ tow strap. The other end was looped around the bent end of my Chineseium bumper. All it took was a little back-and-forth with the pull. You cannot tell the bumper was damaged. It did take a LOT of pull, though.

The best part was it only took twenty minutes and the cost of a few beers. 🙂
Well, my bumper-bending pal.. I did the same thing, except I tore the rear quarter panel off of a LaSabre. Dumb bitch slammed on the brakes for a yellow light. It bent the bumper on my CJ5 at almost an exact 45-degree angle. The strap on the tree a little 4 low and slow and "Viola" back to straight. A little rattle can and who knew.
 
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@Wabujitsu At least you didn’t drop it from 500’ in the air. Sling loads can be a bitch. I’ve got a photo of that somewhere.
CSM, I provided medic coverage for an 82d Airborne hard and soft drop at night; it’s a funny story, as it was a support unit, not Rangers/infantry. The equipment was fine; some of the troops thought they were dying, but they too were fine🤣
 

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Must be a leg - a paratroooper would slam those down on the way to morning formation!
:CWL:
Yep, not ashamed to admit I was a leg. I was a very unusual leg, so much so that after working with the 20th SFG, head-butting and knocking out one of their company XOs, and crashing through their concertina wire at their ECP with a deuce-and-a-half and demolishing it (on purpose), their battalion (3d) CSM and XO tried hard to recruit me.

Don‘t classify all legs in the same category🤣 I was, however, drinking very hard for the short time I worked with those boys, as an E-5.

Other than that brief period of insanity, I knocked off the drinking for decades, as I climbed the food chain a few rungs. Also, I enlisted at the age of 26, so I wasn’t the typical kid.
 

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CSM, I provided medic coverage for an 82d Airborne hard and soft drop at night; it’s a funny story, as it was a support unit, not Rangers/infantry. The equipment was fine; some of the troops thought they were dying, but they too were fine🤣
I've never witnessed a drop in person but my dad has a fucked up story from a drop that happened down at red flag once upon a time.

So this is back when they still had C-141s so you know really back in the day.

Anyway the story goes is that the these C-141s come in at like 800 ft over this valley and dad is overlooking the valley because he was working on a Como set that was set up on the rim. Anyway all the airplanes came in and he watched all the parachutes deploy and he said when they hit the ground very few of them actually got up.

As it turns out the valley floor was rock and apparently the jumpers had been briefed it was sandy ground... Came in a little hot and they all got fucked up.

I never actually got jump qualified myself so I don't know how much truth there could be to that story.
 

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Last time I took a “Florida Man doing Jeep crap” video, there were some folks who were disappointed, as they were hoping for a YouTube death-and-utter-destruction-of-my-Jeep video.
As someone who was disappointed with that last video, the fact that this worked out okay as well only compounds my disappointment. :)

Keep getting shit right, and somebody's likely to revoke your Florida Man Card...
 
 







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