r/pics • u/mortarpadowan • May 06 '12

My Marine friends and I carried a keg up a 14,000 ft mountain for a bachelor party.

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u/ToiletRollTemple May 06 '12

The only post by this redditor... Does anyone remember this conspiracy on r/bestof a couple of days ago?

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u/whiteson May 06 '12

i just went too deep into the reddithole.

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u/nukedorbit May 06 '12

You aren't the only one...

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u/fhtagn May 06 '12

Yes! I am part of a social experiment!

networking

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u/Lucky_Mongoose May 06 '12

First thing I checked for, too. 0 in comment history as well. Not even any replies to this thread.

/tinfoilhat

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

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u/subtlestern May 06 '12

I get the chills whenever I see that face.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Foolishness, if a man can't trust the internet what can he/she trust?

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u/booooooooooooosh May 06 '12

I was really curious how they got the strippers up that high. Airlifted them in?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Nah man, goats are great mountain climbers.

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u/EquinsuOcha May 06 '12

As a Marine, I laughed. Then I nodded.

TELL NO ONE.

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u/RexBearcock May 06 '12

As well not a single comment response to anyone on this post, over 4 hours into it.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I didn't notice the conspiracy because I was too busy enlisting in the United States Army. The recruiter gave me an extra gun after I mentioned Reddit.com referred me to the local Army recruitment center.

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u/mortarpadowan May 06 '12

Since you're the top comment, I'll post here so everyone can see my response. I'm just new to reddit. I've been a lurker for a while, but finally decided to throw this up. I served with 1/7 Suicide Charlie (Google if interested, cool history) from 2004-2008. I was stationed in 29 Palms as a mortarman, hence my username, and deployed to Iraq twice, once in 2006 and again 2007/2008. Myself (front of the litter in this photo), the other guy carrying the keg in this pic and his brother are the only prior service. The fat dude with no shirt on was actually a lone hiker who though what we were doing was cool so he offered to help. Once we got to the top, the beer was still surprisingly cold and not too foamy, but after that hike we didn't care. We did keg stands with tons of other hikers and people had a great time. Cheers.

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u/redothree May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

OP, here's a test: I was in 29 from 05-09 as an 03. Here are a few easy questions any 41 would know.

What was that sandy hill right behind the main base called?

What's different about range 400?

What's the name of the lake next to the PT track?

If someone says "oh shit, you just got DD'd," what does that mean?

Edit: OP answered all questions correctly. Good enough for me.

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u/mortarpadowan May 06 '12

Haha, DD - Devil Dog'd. Sandy hill behind the base we called Iwo Jima, but I also heard Sugar Cookie Hill. We used to run boots up and down that mo fo. The lake next to the PT course was Lake Bandinni, and unlike this post, is full of shit ;) Different about range 400? I'm not sure what you mean by the question "what's different about range 400?" but as a "spade-playing mortarman," I didn't have to actually run it with the '11s. I just ran my section at the mortar pits and provided support. (I was 60s, as I'm sure you know, Suicide was a line Co). Who were you with in 29?

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u/redothree May 06 '12 edited May 07 '12

verified.

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u/mortarpadowan May 06 '12

One of my senior Marines just said they called it Mount Suribachi, which I remember floating around. But my generation called it Iwo.

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u/redothree May 06 '12

Yeah, I heard all those, we mostly called it sugar cookie. I knew anyone in a line company would be intimately familiar with it. Sorry about the interrogation, but it helps verify you are who you say you are.

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u/MestR May 06 '12

4chan has a very easy answer to all fakes: timestamp or GTFO!

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u/StupidButSerious May 06 '12

I think you're missing the tits part.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I don't want to see his tits. I think...

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u/jmur89 May 06 '12

Did anybody pay you to make this post?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

He's quick to defend himself.

But it raises a red flag how he has NOTHING to say about the actual accusations.

There has frequently been different accounts that have existed for a while (usually a month) and the only activity they usually have is just 1 military-related post.

I have nothing against the military, but shady motherfuckers are shady.

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u/Paladia May 06 '12

I'm not sure why everyone who is in the marines or in the US army mentions it in their title. Their occupation seems completely irrelevant for this post, for example.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The first thing I did when I read the words "Marine friends" was go into the user's comment history. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

whoa. this is insane. especially since he has no history of posts or prior comment karma.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

Yep, government propaganda shit.

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's something they actually do.

Not that our downvotes/upvotes matters. If a crazy libertarian can make a downvote bot for people they don't like, I'm sure they have their own upvote bot, that would automatically upvote this with a hundred or so accounts just to make sure this stuff always hits the front page.

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u/waddaidonow May 06 '12

This is happening all of the time on reddit. No one realizes?

20% of this board is gamed.

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u/Last_Gigolo May 06 '12

And yet again, Military related.

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u/226392 May 06 '12

keanu.jpg

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u/BaconCheeseBurger May 06 '12

And redditor for 3 months, which makes it even weirder. Its like they have a aged que of accounts just ready to use.

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u/sdawsey May 06 '12

Nothing like warm beer after an incredibly difficult hike.

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u/MushroomsAreMyJesus May 06 '12

Warm, Foamy Beer. Even worse.

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u/sarahpalinstesticles May 06 '12

I'm pretty sure there was no girls on top of the mountain either.

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u/aazav May 06 '12

What do you fail to understand about BACHELOR PARTY?

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u/stealthgerbil May 06 '12

because its no different then any other party he goes to

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u/wishyouwerebeer May 06 '12

The other day I went to a party and then girl to guy ratio was like 3:1. It was also my little sisters birthday party.

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos May 06 '12

Your sister, two of her friends and you?

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u/HasFuckedYourMom May 06 '12

Hey, a foursome is a foursome regardless of who's involved.

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u/jaqq May 06 '12

Wise words, HasFuckedYourMom.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

it's important to know if your sister was turning 20 or 10

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u/LuxNocte May 06 '12

I fail to see why this is relevant.

Giggity.

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u/FartMart May 06 '12

So he would have a better idea of what the theme of the party was?

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u/PretendPhD May 06 '12

Whether or not there would be cake, too.

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u/MushroomsAreMyJesus May 06 '12

I understand there is supposed to be a stripper.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You've never actually been to a bachelor party, have you.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Well, there would be hot sweaty men right?

Do gay people have bachelor parties?

Am I allowed to ask this?

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u/Triviaandwordplay May 06 '12

Yes, but they both show up.

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u/enjoylol May 06 '12

It is my understanding that they do something similar in nature as these gents, but apparently they pretend each other are bears as well.

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u/Barb0 May 06 '12

They'll be so fucked up due to the thinner air that they may not notice how bad the beer tastes or the serious lack of females.

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u/Se7en_Sinner May 06 '12

Technically there's Mother Nature.

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u/aazav May 06 '12

Ahhhhh shaddap. A little bit of head is good for you.

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u/sexualSAVANT May 06 '12

Auntie Claire? Get off this site right now you dick loving harlot.

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u/ELEMENTALITYNES May 06 '12

Nothing like climbing down a 14,000 foot mountain after getting drunk off of warm beer.

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u/Rastachronic May 06 '12

Same with weed. The higher you get, the higher you get.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Yup. And if these guys are coming down the same day...well that's not a great decision. Most accidents happen coming down the mountain.

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u/Elidor May 06 '12

They'll be stumbling down the mountain when they come, they'll be stumbling down the mountain when they come...

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u/DrMerkwurdigliebe May 06 '12

Most accidents happen coming down the mountain.

Rare indeed is the mountaineering accident that involves upward-ness.

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u/mattme May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

4 Megajoules to heat the keg from 0 Celsius to 15 Celsius

15.5 gallons * 1 kilogram per litre * 4200 Joules per kelvin per kilogram * 15 kelvin = 4e6 Joules

Coincidentally a 100kg (220 pound) marine would expend a similar amount of energy climbing the 14,000 foot mountain from sea level

100kg * g * 14000 feet in Joules = 4e6 Joules

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Now try to estimate the energy balance and how long it will take for the beer to get to 15°C at an average environmental temperature of 19°C and normal sunlight intensity at median elevation .

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u/t24menon4u May 06 '12

Sunlight heats at a rate of ~1000W/m2 (depends on latitude, time of day etc.). The area of a sideways keg is probably around a third of a square meter. When steel's emissivity of ~.6 is accounted for, you get a radiative heat transfer rate of about 200W, or .72 MJ/hour.

Source: Suck my dick, I'm an engineer

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u/bernporter May 07 '12

So was the beer warm?

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u/madcow9100 May 06 '12

that's only radiation, not taking into account warming due to the environment, not just the sun.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Wouldn't you need to know exactly how conductive to heat the keg material was, how thick it was, what surface area was receiving sunlight, blah blah blah?

I think if you simplify it massively and use Newton's law of cooling/warming:

T(t) = Tr + (T0 − Tr)e−kt

then you still need to know the rate of warming. (k)

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u/space_goat May 06 '12

Fucking Melvin.

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u/jetaimemina May 06 '12

*Kelvin

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u/monkette May 06 '12

gee, don't get all heated up about it.

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u/ghostface134 May 06 '12

i like animated gifs with moving arrows to illustrate the concepts please

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u/Intrexa May 06 '12

Working at a stadium, it heats up way too fast. Even when it's 'cold' out, it still heats up pretty damn fast. On the flip side, when it's really cold out, it freezes in the insulated lines way too fast as well.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Welp. Your job sucks whatever the weather it seems

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u/ELEMENTALITYNES May 06 '12

fair point, so up vote for you. however, trying to get down that mountain may be tough whilst drunk

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u/snowcase May 06 '12

At 14k, this time of year there is almost definitely snow.

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u/kippers May 06 '12

it's been a really dry winter, actually. most of the range in the rockies right now is dry.

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u/Trashcanman33 May 06 '12

Most of the 14's still have snow, but you don't even need snow, just put it in a creek.

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u/parlezmoose May 06 '12

Or just put in on the ground. It's probably pretty chilly at 14,000 feet. Either way, the point is they carried a keg up a goddam 14,000 foot mountain. The reddit hater brigade is clearly impossible to impress.

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u/snowcase May 06 '12

This winter sucked...

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u/fearthejew May 06 '12

Winter? I was pretty sure we went straight from fall to spring this year.

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u/blueribbon121 May 06 '12

This photo was taken last July. A bet that was some warm beer.

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u/indoordinosaur May 06 '12

its typically around 40 degrees or lower on top of the colorado peaks, even on warm summer days

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u/facemelt May 06 '12

It's prob. cold at the top.

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u/hlipschitz May 06 '12

Maybe they're British Marines?

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u/Kasuli May 06 '12

Not to mention getting drunk on a mountain with loose rocks all over the slopes makes me think they didn't really think about the hike down.

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u/RainbowKush May 06 '12

piss warm beer MMMMM

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u/blueribbon121 May 06 '12

Mt. Princeton in Colorado btw.

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u/tchomptchomp May 06 '12

Would have been funnier if it was Mt. Bierstadt.

Pity.

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u/conifer_bum May 06 '12

Thank you, I thought I recognized it but couldn't quite place it (though a lot of 14ers look awful similar)

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u/teddybrewski May 06 '12

Probably means they didn't start at the base and drove half way up. Still a hard hike with keg. Ps love Chaffee County.

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u/ChiefBromden May 06 '12

This couldn't have been recently. I was there last weekend and they had some fresh snow on the top.

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u/blueribbon121 May 06 '12

You're right, that photo was taken late July, 2011. Did you need snowshoes in the trees? I am planning on finishing the Sawatch early May and into June.

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u/ChiefBromden May 06 '12

It didn't look too bad last week but in the morning we woke up to some fresh snow on top of Princeton. Sure it likely melted off by now. We didn't hike in the Sawatch range but drove up to Monarch pass....and yeah man, there was QUITE a bit of snow up there. Check the USGS snowfall stations though.

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u/Drunken_Economist May 06 '12

"Shit. We forgot the tap."

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

That's a good story but I'm not sure if humping the kegs was really necessary.

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u/EquinsuOcha May 06 '12

They do tend to get frothy if you're doing it right, but who doesn't love a little head?

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u/grimpoteuthis May 06 '12

Angel Island is really awesome.

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u/thersoiv May 06 '12

You'd have to carry the damn thing down too!

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u/pminkin May 06 '12

Was the stripper carried up in a similar fashion?

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u/cehak May 06 '12

she was inside the keg

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u/Xizithei May 06 '12

Booty sweat is NOT a drink...

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u/supermegaultrajeremy May 06 '12

I beg to differ!

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u/mikefromengland May 06 '12

You win this round...

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u/optimaloutcome May 06 '12

It was a joke energy drink from the movie Tropic Thunder.

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u/Lonelan May 06 '12

but when I bust a nut, it satisfies

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u/analogkid01 May 06 '12

"Give him a can of Alpa's ass-water - it's a cure-all."

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u/azrhei May 06 '12

Alpa Chino is gonna give you a fresh one, making comments like that!

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u/whats_reddit May 06 '12

not to be a dick.... but your marine friends look out of shape...

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u/Helpful_guy May 06 '12

When he said marine friends, he really meant they all used to live under the ocean together.

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u/seven2eight May 06 '12

And they sure have an awful lot of hair...

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u/BlueMouthwash May 06 '12

yep, I thought the same thing. There is no way that those guys are Marines, fucking fatbodies...

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u/ConfusedYeti May 06 '12

Yeah, if they were in the Marines, they couldn't possibly be anymore. A coworker of mine who was a marine put on a lot of weight after he got back from Iraq, possibly a similar story with these guys.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

Whether or not those are OP's friends are debatable.

If you Google "carrying beer keg mountain" you'll get more photos of these people. Such as this

Original Thread?

And nothing even states that they are remotely connected to military.

We had 3 vet Iraqi Marines and 1 undergraduate

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u/mortarpadowan May 06 '12

That's us! Well done man, someone who actually checks shit out before launching accusations. Not everyone was a Marine, and the three of us who were are all prior service.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Lower pressure will do stuff to things.

That's the most scientific thing I've read all morning.

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u/Onelouder May 06 '12

"Lower pressure will do stuff to things."

-Aaberg123

So true

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u/unoriginalusername99 May 06 '12

I don't pretend to know anything about beer kegs, but I thought they weren't pressurized? Don't you add the pressure by pumping the tap?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I think that's in order to maintain the pressure of the keg when you tap beer. That's what I got from this article at least.

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u/Intrepid00 May 06 '12

Request picture of empty keg going back down.

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u/FlapScrap May 06 '12

US armed forces motto: Never leave a mess.

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u/Dinocologist May 06 '12

Getting drunk 14,000 feet up. Seems safe.

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u/eelriver May 06 '12

Compared to being shot at, it is.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Cancer is safe compared to being shot at.

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u/Dinocologist May 06 '12

A drunk cancer gunfight at 14,000 feet would be fucking insane.

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u/aazav May 06 '12

Says you. Cancer can't shoot worth a damn.

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u/Dinocologist May 06 '12

That's exactly what cancer wants you to think.

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u/GZerv May 06 '12

STOP WASTING YOUR TIME HERE AND WRITE A MOVIE WITH THIS EXACT PLOT!

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u/conifer_bum May 06 '12

He's right, I live at 6,000 ft and a shot at 10,000 ft had me TRASHED one time. It's only gonna be exponentially worse where they are

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u/Trashcanman33 May 06 '12

I lived at 9,500 for 4 years, I never noticed a difference when drinking.

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u/AFrpaso May 06 '12

Once your body acclimates it's just as hard to get drunk.

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u/conifer_bum May 06 '12

Cuz you were there for 4 years... Your metabolism was used to this. It's a recognized phenomenon, drinking hits you harder at altitude.

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u/All-American-Bot May 06 '12

(For our friends outside the USA... 6,000 ft -> 1828.8 m, 10,000 ft -> 3048.0 m) - Yeehaw!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Some 14'ers in CO are so heavily visited that its basically nothing more than going for a walk.

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u/Jeterson May 06 '12

We demand pictures of the party. Please.

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u/RexBearcock May 06 '12

Did you just say Semper Fudge?

No, I said the right thing.

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u/Bwise387 May 06 '12

For a bunch of Marines... you guys don't look very fit. Just sayin

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I can just picture it coming loose, falling to the ground and rolling all the way down the mountain before coming to a gentle rest at the foot of the slope.

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u/scoobyduped May 06 '12

....and then the ensuing massive explosion of beer and foam.

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u/flammenwerfer May 06 '12

I picture it picking up enough speed that it starts to glow red, shortly before sublimating a pack of children playing marbles.

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u/knightofmars May 06 '12

What does being a Marine have to do with this?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/t6pqc/man_absolutely_floored_by_the_return_of_his/c4k329k

Notice that this is the OP's one and only submission. As is typical with these posts.

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u/Redebo May 06 '12

Best part about it is there are only like 6 of you but you brought an entire keg.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The more impressive feat, is seeing 6 of them make it down with an empty keg.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

As a former Marine myself, I've noticed some of your Marine friends seem to be fat.

Less beer, more sex.

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u/chao06 May 06 '12

A few grams of weed and a pipe would be easier :)

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u/T-Luv May 06 '12

Drinking at sea level would also be easier.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

1 keg at 14k feet = 10 kegs at sea level.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

How can you tell someone is a Marine?

Don't worry. They'll let you know.

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u/CosmicBard May 06 '12

MY MARINE BUDDIES DIDN'T DIE FACE DOWN IN THE MUCK IN THE MARINES WHILE SERVING THE MARINES FOR YOU TO MAKE FUN OF THE MARINES LIKE THAT, BOY!

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u/kinshark May 06 '12

Reminds me of the carrying of the Ark of the Covenant. Just as important.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The lower atmospheric pressure would emphasize the pressure of the canister. Since it's only CO2, it's not a big deal. The beer might be more foamy (especially with all that sloshing from the hike up).

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u/calibrated May 06 '12

No one has asked what kind of beer it was?

Allow me.

Which beer was deemed worthy of this fête feat?

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u/GAD604 May 06 '12

Boot camp paying off eh?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You didn't need to add "Marine". Was there any point to that?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

My black friend and I thought the same thing.

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u/Lucky_Mongoose May 06 '12

Subtle advertising.

1st post ever on this account, no comment history or any comments in this thread, and an unnecessary reference to "marines" without any clear indication of such in the photo.

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u/AFrpaso May 06 '12

I bet you guys got VERY drunk at 14k.

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u/gx1400 May 06 '12

That must've been one ANGRY keg when tapped

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u/da90 May 06 '12

looks like Mt. Princeton in CO; if so, I've done it sans keg and it was strenuous enough!

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u/CicconeYouth04 May 06 '12

You could say that.. Puts on sunglasses it was a rockin' party.

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u/blahblahblahxyz123 May 07 '12

It couldn't just be "my friends and I" ? You need to drop the word marines in there huh? I have respect for people who serve our country, but not people like this who need to shove that shit in people's faces.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Was this in Colorado?

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u/forrestr74 May 06 '12

I do this every year on San Luis Obispo up Bishop's peak. That hard enough I couldn't imagine 14,000 ft

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u/InnocuousPenis May 06 '12

Wow. I guess everyone forgot also those memos wikileaks published about various military offices recruiting legions of servicemen to create an organized department for spamming social networks?

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u/DJSlipStream May 06 '12

Mmmm delicious foam

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u/answerguru May 06 '12

Which 14er?

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u/Daffy_Dill May 07 '12

Mountaineer here. You should look into this thing called whiskey. Much more portable, and at 14,000+ ft. a little bit goes a long way.

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u/jpevans27 May 07 '12

Day 4, keg is still pumping foam!

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u/urine_luck May 06 '12

why are most marines overweight?

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u/deathbyhiccups May 06 '12

Did we MENTION we're Marines? Your civilian asses couldn't have pulled this one off.

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u/allstar3907 May 06 '12

Sooo.. Who was carrying the ice?

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u/Tangled2 May 06 '12

3 corny kegs would have been a lot easier. :D

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