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Someone was asking me about joint popping sounds and thought y’all might laugh at this.

I was at MEPS (US Military Entry Processing center) and they had us Duck Walk.*

I was one of the last guys to do it. When the examiner left the room I asked the guy next to me “did you hear my joints pop?”

A guy at the far end of the room said “we all heard them pop with every step!”

I was mortified, but it did t hurt and they moved me on to the next stage of exams.

*Duck Walk - hunker down, like crouching. Then walk forward without standing up.

A post in another sub reminded me of this story. So my reserve company got put on a rapid deployment and had to bring in a bunch of soldiers from other units to plus up. They gathered us all up on Fort Carson for as much training as they could. One of the new E6s was an avid fan of Stargate and somehow only found out on Carson that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was a real military base. Which convinced him that the show was real, so in the middle of the night he takes off in another soldiers pov and head up there. He was obviously stopped but spent so much time arguing with the guards that since he used to be 10th group that his security clearance was enough to let him through that they detained him and the commander had to go up there in the middle of the night to retrieve them.

MEPS Experience

Yall. I been in 7 years E6 and got into a conversation about MEPS with my leadership randomly today. APPARENTLY them sticking they finger up your booty IS NOT normal nor allowed at MEPS. WTF do I do with that information? Do I contact the Secretary of War on this?? Child services?

Also it lasted 5 seconds and I felt a warm breeze, buddy was over here looking at me with a whole face when I turned around and ngl I laughed so damn hard is that NORMAL??? WTF i do with this information. I stayed silent for years thinking it was normal.. WAS IT???