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I'll go first.

During Desert Storm, we'd do anything to fill the void of time spent waiting. One of my favorite things to do was scorpion fight. We'd fight em for candy and stuff from home like cookies and Skittles, we'd call it "pogey bait".

I had the champion scorpion in the company. Called him Brutus Beefcakes. We won me a LOT of food.

One morning after stand-to, I went out into the desert to catch a bug for Brutus. I kept him in a Wadi al-Fatin water bottle. I went to feed him, and sometime during the night I had been sabotaged! Someone had stuck a ball point pen through Brutus Beefcake's head!

So I walked over to the A-33 tank, grabbed the mudflap on the front and gave it a good pounding. That's the tanker way of knocking on the front door. Sgt Pamplin stuck his head out of the turret.

"PAMPLIN! Did you kill my scorpion last night?!" See, Brutus has bestest not one, but two of his the day before and he lost BIG-TIME.

"That's SERGEANT Pamplin to you, PFC Bissette..."

"SERGEANT Pamplin! Did you kill my scorpion last night?!"

"I can neither conform nor deny that Bissette. Heh heh heh."

I know he did it... Two weeks later my tank commander traded my cot to the Brits for a case of rations. Bastards. All of them...
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Original Message I'll go first.

During Desert Storm, we'd do anything to fill the void of time spent waiting. One of my favorite things to do was scorpion fight. We'd fight em for candy and stuff from home like cookies and Skittles, we'd call it "pogey bait".

I had the champion scorpion in the company. Called him Brutus Beefcakes. We won me a LOT of food.

One morning after stand-to, I went out into the desert to catch a bug for Brutus. I kept him in a Wadi al-Fatin water bottle. I went to feed him, and sometime during the night I had been sabotaged! Someone had stuck a ball point pen through Brutus Beefcake's head!

So I walked over to the A-33 tank, grabbed the mudflap on the front and gave it a good pounding. That's the tanker way of knocking on the front door. Sgt Pamplin stuck his head out of the turret.

"PAMPLIN! Did you kill my scorpion last night?!" See, Brutus has bestest not one, but two of his the day before and he lost BIG-TIME.

"That's SERGEANT Pamplin to you, PFC Bissette..."

"SERGEANT Pamplin! Did you kill my scorpion last night?!"

"I can neither conform nor deny that Bissette. Heh heh heh."

I know he did it... Two weeks later my tank commander traded my cot to the Brits for a case of rations. Bastards. All of them...

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