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bigjohnson · Post by **bigjohnson** » December 6th, 2005, 4:16 pm

Served in 3rd Platoon my entire enlistment, kinda broke contact when I got out.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » December 6th, 2005, 4:17 pm

bigjohnson wrote:Served in 3rd Platoon my entire enlistment, kinda broke contact when I got out.

Tell us a little more about yourself Brother!

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » December 6th, 2005, 4:27 pm

That was one real weak Intro.

Come on Palace Guard you can do better then that.

bigjohnson · Post by **bigjohnson** » December 6th, 2005, 4:33 pm

Alright. Went to Ranger School twice but didn't get my tab. During my second shot at Pre-Ranger I cut the end of my toe off in a freak accident. I barely missed out on going to Afghanistan because I didn't reup. My last year in I was a spec-4 RTO. I was also kicked out of every bar in Columbus at one point or another.

msg_dman · Post by **msg_dman** » December 6th, 2005, 5:44 pm

Welcome...now give us the details of this freak toe removing incident.

bigjohnson · Post by **bigjohnson** » December 6th, 2005, 6:11 pm

It was during the weekend pass you get before you got to the field during Pre Ranger. I had just gotten out of the shower in the old 3rd Batt barracks, and was only wearing a towel and shower shoes when I opened a large wooden drawer looking for a pair of contacts. The drawer slid all the way out because me a my roommates had way to much shit inside it. It smashed down on the end of my toe just below the toenail. A small flap of skin held it on and I wrapped it up tight with some kerlex after a large pool of bright red blood formed. My roomate heard me yell an eloquent chain of swear words, and drove me to Martin Army while I elevated my foot on the dash.
Of course I had to wait over an hour to get in the emergency room, and when the doctor unwrapped the kerlix his jaw dropped. He made a tourniquet with some surgical tubing and a kelly clamp because every time my heart beat blood squirted in the air. He then had some reservist medics irrigate it, one held the end of my toe back will the other poured in the saline. They were freaking out but all I could do was laugh. I am not sure what hurt worse, my toe or the litacain shots.
When the surgeon finally showed up the first thing he did was take a picture. I got eight stiches and he told me I had a 50-50 chance of having to get an amputation over the next week. I got my japanese jumpboot, and still ended up at Scooters that night. I healed okay, and ended up driving an ammo truck to Ft. Polk, and a doing a mission there a few weeks later.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » December 6th, 2005, 6:27 pm

Excellent story Bro!

keepsmilin · Post by **keepsmilin** » December 6th, 2005, 10:11 pm

Welcome BigJohnson,

Thank you for your Service...

Sorry about your toe.. I'm glad you got to keep it... My toe was throbbing reading the account of your accident (new approach to opening drawers for me)..

Have Fun on the Site... Lot's of Great Folks..

-KeepSmilin

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » December 7th, 2005, 1:00 am

Welcome youngster.

Chiron · Post by **Chiron** » December 7th, 2005, 2:41 am

Welcome to the site Ranger.

The Holmchicken · Post by **The Holmchicken** » December 7th, 2005, 5:55 am

bigjohnson wrote:Alright. Went to Ranger School twice but didn't get my tab. During my second shot at Pre-Ranger I cut the end of my toe off in a freak accident. I barely missed out on going to Afghanistan because I didn't reup. My last year in I was a spec-4 RTO. I was also kicked out of every bar in Columbus at one point or another.

Kicked out of every bar? Welcome! I think the everyone here, collectively, has been kicked out of every bar in the states and a good fucking chunk of all the bars in the world.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » December 7th, 2005, 6:03 am

The Holmchicken wrote:
bigjohnson wrote:Alright. Went to Ranger School twice but didn't get my tab. During my second shot at Pre-Ranger I cut the end of my toe off in a freak accident. I barely missed out on going to Afghanistan because I didn't reup. My last year in I was a spec-4 RTO. I was also kicked out of every bar in Columbus at one point or another.
Kicked out of every bar? Welcome! I think the everyone here, collectively, has been kicked out of every bar in the states and a good fucking chunk of all the bars in the world.

Welcome. There was this little hole in the wall place in Istanbul we can never go back to because...

Earthpig · Post by **Earthpig** » December 7th, 2005, 6:08 am

Better your toe, than your Johnson!

Welcome aboard, Ranger!
RLTW
EP

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » December 7th, 2005, 8:31 am

Welcome to the site.

Got any more stories?

LRP1 · Post by **LRP1** » December 7th, 2005, 10:46 am

Welcome Young Man......

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