Related Posts
Additional Posts in Veteran Bowl
Any Navy Nukes in this bowl?
McKinsey & Company Anyone at McKinsey & Company willing to refer a Marine veteran (OIF, I swear I will not eat all the crayons. "Crayons" are for art is what my wife tells me to tell myself)
5yrs Marines (Sgt, Comm maint tech w infantry Bn)
8yrs in Oil & Gas (engr coordinator, qty surveying and proj ctrl)
CM undergrad
MBA (professional program, graduated May 2022)
I'm looking for a role in McK serving O&G, industrial, capital projects clients. Open to generalist roles as well. Can review for vetting.
New to Fishbowl?
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.



I don’t know that I’d say unbelievable, more like incredible. We were extracting from a mission at night in Iraq via UH-60. It was about an hour flight and most of the way we were skirting a thunderstorm. Something about the vast desert at night with these towering thunderstorms was just awe inspiring.
Watching a Pimp chase a Marine to the Jeune gate, the MP screaming stop then lighting up the Pimp’s car, and the Pimp stepping out of the car without a scratch..
On deck at sea in the Pacific and I watched an owl fly straight through the prop of an E-2 Hawkeye. An owl. At sea. No idea where it came from.
How far out at sea? I wonder if a lot of these UFO videos about how there’s no “known engine” are just birds.
Since we're doing animal theme...
I once got told to walk around a golf course at night to try and find a tiger.
Ft Polk
I saw a fuel ballast pump fail on a B1B. All of the fuel went to the back of the plane, which sent the front of the plane 15feet in the air.
Saw a baby seal climb up into the well deck and hang out with us for about 20 minutes before the bos’ns decided to spray it with a hose to get it out. It just wanted to chill for a bit
Someone smoke a cigarette right before doing the run portion of the PT test. Also, someone else claiming they smoked before doing their workouts because it raised their heart rate up so that was good.
Had an old crusty E7 during my OBC time grading PT tests. The course was a 1 mile lap. This guy smoked right up until it was time to start the run. Ran 1 lap, lit up, ran the second lap, and came in below 14 minutes for the 2 miles. He ran with the new LTs for fun and to help with pace.
Guys telling people their Craigslist hookups were their Gfs to bring ‘em to the barracks lol
Pretty standard 😅
The egress of people from Afghanistan in the final drawdown/COVID evacuations
Ramadi: 60mm mortar exploded in between the feet of our battalion Ops Chief. Homeboy got rocked, and all he had were scrapes from being sent slightly airborne and falling back on concrete. Ol boy was in pt gear on his way to the shower.
Early 2000s Iraq was a special time and place. I was in Rawah, our cook caught a mortar the first day on deck - mortar blew back out the same way it came in, low order detonation. Lucky dude.
Visual Storyteller
We got the OK to light up a hospital with HE rounds in Baghdad after taking rpg fire from it. Damn that was an awesome site to see a platoon of M1 turn and do a control fire 🙂
Mopping the parking lot while it was raining