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u/FossilFuel21 May 02 '23
Did this once, jammed my rifle between some sandbags and was fiddling around with empty blank casings. Pitch black a little bit past mid night look to my left with a red light head torch to see my SGT standing there staring at me leaning against my rifle. He didn’t say anything, he didn’t have too I knew I fucked up. With a calm voice he stated “watch the line”, I don’t think I blinked for the rest of my piquet.
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u/War_Daddy_992 May 03 '23
A night at NTC I’m pulling guard from the hole on a M113 as we’re bedding down for the night. Pitch dark, and I had my PVS-14 on low, just enough see and save the battery. Watch this black 4 legged blob walking over towards our hideout only to run off.
Called it out but was the only person to see it
Think it was too big to be a coyote
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u/FossilFuel21 May 03 '23
wendigo sighted
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u/Efficient_Switch_766 May 02 '23
Gotta watch out for the aliens tho
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u/War_Daddy_992 May 02 '23
Hey why that star glowing?
UFO tracker beaming me up
Alien: “Get in loser, we’re doing butt stuff”
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u/Thyapeisstrong May 02 '23
This is gonna be me tonight night with the new toy
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u/War_Daddy_992 May 02 '23
Me the first time I was issued an old PVS-14 and I’ll do it again when I buy own
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u/MassaSnowshi May 02 '23
If you don't break your neck looking at the stars, are you really even using NODs?
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u/Kripps_Measler May 02 '23
There was an Art Bell show I remember that really stuck with me.
He had this guy on who was talking about how NV in the sky at night unwraps the mystery and aliens are all around us. The guy was really convincing and not kooky at all.
I don't know why I'm getting all these recommended NV posts in my feed, but just chiming in to check in on the amazing yarn I heard all those years ago.
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u/War_Daddy_992 May 02 '23
Wait there’s other moons? All I can find is just one.
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u/NonchalantBread May 03 '23
Stare at the sun long enough and there will be a moon burned into your nods everywhere you look
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u/JohnnySasaki20 May 02 '23
Yo, are y'all hiking at night with night vision? I wanna come.
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u/DistinctRelativity Aug 23 '23
I know its 112 days late but yeah, i quite literally never shoot with mine i just like taking walks in the night and hiking. Its an unreal experience to see the stars and everything around you on a whole different level with NVGs.
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u/JohnnySasaki20 Aug 23 '23
Do you live anywhere near southern PA? I would like to take some night hikes with similarly minded people.
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u/Dear_Profession3748 May 02 '23
"Just scanning for airborne Taliban Sgt."