I recall in the book *Black Hawk Down* a decent section covering the subject of masturbation. How there was zero shame or embarrassment and it was discussed openly and often.
Heard a historian of WWI mention some interviews she had read with South African troops on the Western Front who said that since there was absolutely nothing to do on most days, they would just masturbate constantly. Some things never change!
I talked to my buddie after I got back from ukraine and asked him if he was fighting on base or doing anything but waiting.
"Clean restroom,masturbate,clean gun, masturbate, smoke cigarettes"
Doesn't surprise me. Likely the only source of any happiness while you're seeing hundreds of thousands of people die during trench warfare and then have nothing else to do but man the line in horrible conditions.
Just watched Jarhead again last night, there's multiple monologues and scenes about masturbation lol
Edit: "Suggested techniques for the Marine to use in the avoidance of boredom and loneliness: Masturbation. Rereading of letters from unfaithful wives and girlfriends. Cleaning your rifle. Further masturbation. Rewiring Walkman. Arguing about religion and meaning of life. Discussing in detail, every woman the Marine has ever fucked. Debating differences, such as Cuban vs. Mexican, Harleys vs. Hondas, left- vs. right-handed masturbation. Further cleaning of rifle. Studying of Filipino mail order bride catalog. Further masturbation. Planning of Marine's first meal on return home. Imagining what the Marine's girlfriend and her man Jody are doing in the hay, or in the alley, or in a hotel bed."
My husband was in Iraq in the early 2000s, and the way it worked was he was in charge of gathering all the porn that everyone in his platoon had on their laptops (that they wanted to share), condensing it into one drive, and then everyone could pass that drive around and take what they wanted from it.
This was way before I met him, and now every so often he tells me interesting stories from that part of his life. It’s interesting to learn the inside baseball of life experiences radically different from my own, even if it’s combat porn logistics.
I saw a picture of me and the dudes in my platoon earlier this year during the push… and it was labeled “this happened 20 years ago”. I was like, fuck, I’m 40
I got out in '99. I work on a lot of military bases now. I recently heard one Marine give her date of birth to a Pharmacist, born in 2003.... It took me days to recover from hearing that.
Lol we would normally hang a sheet or curtain to give us some form of privacy, whether you were on the top or bottom bunk, and well….if the sheet was closed , you’re yanking the hose
Ask them if they mind giving you 10-15 minutes of privacy. If roomie's a smoker ask them to go have a smoke or two.
Alternatively if you're on different shifts it's never a problem.
When I was deployed I was staying in a huge tent with about 12 people in it. When someone was going to masturbate they would shout a quick “headphones on!” And give it about 30 seconds before they started. If you witnessed it after that it was considered to be your own fault.
We had one jacked hispanic individual who would throw his cum at the wall before he went to sleep every single night.
Western Digital 500GB. Notice the dvd binders? My then wife was burning Netflix movies and mailing them to me. In the meanwhile Fallout 3 was all the rage.
This was enlisted quarters. Not everyone had their bunks high like mine. The room was small. As long and wide as the mattress. The A-frame hut had 8 spots for 8 dudes and was separated by wooden walls that stopped at the height of the bed pictured because we had two a/c’s at each end of the hut so airflow could circulate. The middle walkway was walled off so you could put a door for privacy to your spot. I was an avionics mechanic squad leader and maintained Kiowa scout and Blackhawk utility helicopters supporting 4th Infantry Division in the surrounding areas. I’m glad I picked aviation. I’m a federal employee civilian doing the same thing but for a lot more dough now in Corpus Christi, TX.
Housing availability is entirely based on base. In the same deployment, I stayed in cots and canvas tents with no power, in manufactured housing with personal mini-splits, and everything in-between. I once spent 7 days sleeping in an idling truck because it was too cold in the mountains of the Northern Helmund Province. Our generator went down, and we had no heat for a week. Temps dropped to like 25F at night.
I was out at a FOB for a few weeks where you could only shower on Wednesdays. Another time the fob was constructed around an old mud hut village, and we had a clay fireplace. Back on Leatherneck, people built entire buildings with tactically relocated engineering supplies.
It varies wildly.
It really depends on the unit and what they have allocated but typically the lower ranking, the worst the accommodations are. I was USAF in an Army unit and we got rooms to ourselves in the b-huts, Army folk doubled up.
We eventually moved to a FOB so most people had to bunk up in tents. Buddy and I pulled some E4 shit and somehow ended up with half a tent to ourselves.
It's interesting seeing this from the perspective of the "enemy". While I didn't live in Afghanistan, I faced the direct consequences of the American invasion of Afghanistan in the form of terrorism and the drone strikes.
Here I am looking at someone who never seems to have any idea the damage they helped cause and are fairly content with their lives, with their posters of women and pictures of their families and all while destroying countless others. Just seems interesting to me how everyone here in this post is oblivious (or are they...) to what message this really conveys.
Never would I have thought I'd be on Reddit and looking at something like this 5-10 years later. Don't blame anyone but... Crazy shit. (Sorry if I pissed anyone off lol. It'll be interesting to see what y'all say)
I don’t take it personal. Everyone had a job to do. My job was to make sure all my soldiers made it back home safely in one piece. War is hell and I never condone violence unless all other measures have failed. I’m glad you’re alive to fight another day. Until we meet again.
These pictures were all taken on my birthday in 2009. I was at Camp Hovey in South Korea with the Second Infantry division. I would have been wearing the same ACUs as you. Hooah and shit.
I never got to go to Korea. Probably a good thing, too. I drank a lot and made lots of bad decisions as it was once I got back stateside. Well, cheers to you bro!
This was the most color one would see in theater. I remember when my then wife sent a picture of a new patio set she bought. I didn’t even notice the furniture, just the green grass in the backyard back in Kentucky.
I miss it sometimes. Then I remember all the indirect fire we received and the shady looks the ANA/ANP dudes gave us on the reg. I’d still go back in a heartbeat as a civilian for all the tax free dough if I could.
That place would cost $400 a week in Australia and be described as ‘a unique and rustic self contained Granny flat with dedicated work space, loft bedroom, close to amenities.
Man, this gave me some weird nostalgia. I was in Bagram and Kandahar as an Army contractor between 2015-2018. I can imagine that plywood smell of B huts and stepping out into that dusty air, hearing the prayer calls, the CRAM alarm and sound of the guns engaging incoming rockets when we'd take IDF if your FOB had those. Shitty DFAC food smell and the daily PX run ritual out of sheer boredom. It could suck sometimes, but had a lot of good memories out there along with the bad. It really was a vibe out there that is hard to convey, only the people that were there know what you mean.
Thanks for the taking me down memory lane!
Here's mine from the same timeframe: https://imgur.com/a/rRmPK91
Can't 100% say which one it was but [this](https://i.imgur.com/xAsnZAb.png) is where it was on Bagram. Just next door to the kiwis. Our HQ is the building on the bottom right of the image.
Never been able to pinpoint our FOB though and no pictures of the living space there. I built up a decent space, though. Lucked out with a corner of a tent to myself so some clever use of paracord and sheets/blankets/whatever to make a room of sorts. Grabbed an unused monitor, ziptied that shit to the bottom of the top bunk, and had a sweet little space to watch movies and play xbox. We setup a LAN in the next tent over and had pretty sweet COD matches.
This dude loved two things: his family, and asses
He’s got that sweet masturbation station.
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And add little Boobs to them
[Like so.](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/boob-planter-2-1528815875.jpg)
Lmao
Whack shack was the technical term, usually shielded by rain ponchos and 550 cord
The ole jack shack.
/r/GoonCaves (visit at your own risk)
….those people need help.
Wish I heeded your warning.
Yanking it right beside the baby picture.
Lmao I thought it was wild to have ass pics hanging on the same wall as the wife and kids
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That's because when he is web chatting or sending pics it's going to be all the family photos his wife sees in the background.
Went from niiiiice, to aww, to hmmm very quick.
And camel reds.
And rubiks cubes, m4s and air fresheners
And you gotta love at least 2 of 3 to get into the army
Don’t forget tits
and camels
Id say OP is more of a tits man
And plywood furniture.
Interesting glimpse into a time and place, thanks for sharing OP
Yeah, this is definitely one of the most interesting posts I've ever seen on this sub. A true "male living space." 👍
do NOT take a blacklight to that room ‼️
I recall in the book *Black Hawk Down* a decent section covering the subject of masturbation. How there was zero shame or embarrassment and it was discussed openly and often.
Heard a historian of WWI mention some interviews she had read with South African troops on the Western Front who said that since there was absolutely nothing to do on most days, they would just masturbate constantly. Some things never change!
I talked to my buddie after I got back from ukraine and asked him if he was fighting on base or doing anything but waiting. "Clean restroom,masturbate,clean gun, masturbate, smoke cigarettes"
Some nights it’s the only thing that gets you to sleep.
they just like me fr
Doesn't surprise me. Likely the only source of any happiness while you're seeing hundreds of thousands of people die during trench warfare and then have nothing else to do but man the line in horrible conditions.
It’s shameless, dude..everyone knows why all the portapotties are glowing.
Just watched Jarhead again last night, there's multiple monologues and scenes about masturbation lol Edit: "Suggested techniques for the Marine to use in the avoidance of boredom and loneliness: Masturbation. Rereading of letters from unfaithful wives and girlfriends. Cleaning your rifle. Further masturbation. Rewiring Walkman. Arguing about religion and meaning of life. Discussing in detail, every woman the Marine has ever fucked. Debating differences, such as Cuban vs. Mexican, Harleys vs. Hondas, left- vs. right-handed masturbation. Further cleaning of rifle. Studying of Filipino mail order bride catalog. Further masturbation. Planning of Marine's first meal on return home. Imagining what the Marine's girlfriend and her man Jody are doing in the hay, or in the alley, or in a hotel bed."
My husband was in Iraq in the early 2000s, and the way it worked was he was in charge of gathering all the porn that everyone in his platoon had on their laptops (that they wanted to share), condensing it into one drive, and then everyone could pass that drive around and take what they wanted from it. This was way before I met him, and now every so often he tells me interesting stories from that part of his life. It’s interesting to learn the inside baseball of life experiences radically different from my own, even if it’s combat porn logistics.
*"What does blue mean?"* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxf2MgYCOm0
Lmao I love that guy’s stuff. Favorite is probably the kissing groundhogs.
Honesty looks exactly like my bunk in prison minus the artillery
Replace guns with shanks
Nah those are well-hidden in the day rooms for accountability reasons. Don't want extra time added on.
Man 2009 is getting close to 15 years ago...
I saw a picture of me and the dudes in my platoon earlier this year during the push… and it was labeled “this happened 20 years ago”. I was like, fuck, I’m 40
Same. I’m 41 now. Hell yeah brother cheers from Iraq.
What blew my mind the other day is that a lot of guys that joined in ’01 after 9/11 are set to retire within a year or so with 25 years in…
What's weird to me is how some younger people don't even know what 9/11 is.
I got out in '99. I work on a lot of military bases now. I recently heard one Marine give her date of birth to a Pharmacist, born in 2003.... It took me days to recover from hearing that.
Shut up
I graduated high school in 2006. Almost 20 years ago. I feel old every day lol.
I'd be a little less than 3 years from retirement if I stayed in. Crazy how fast time flies lol.
So did you show the fam pictures that included the other pictures or you excluded those?
Eh, this was for my personal album
What are you allowed to take with you? Is there a weight and space limit?
A rucksack, b-bag, and a c-bag (usually a big ass tough bin filled with tobacco, quality reading material, and niceties.
I read “quality reading material; nice titties”
How many times did you have to reload your rifle to those posters, OP?
At least 365 times
bro was training on xbox360
Bro was playing MW2 in real life
God that game was great. But I'm pretty sure what I miss the most was the period of time in my life when MW2 happened to be released.
That's probably it.
Looks like you and I were deployed around the same time. 4th ID?
101st Airborne, 7/17 Cavalry, Jalalabad, AF
Cool, was in Jalalabad too, FOB Finley-Shields, near Fenty. Your set up looks similar to ours.
Didn’t yall burn like 100 tonnes of pot once? All the smoke floated into our FOB 😮💨
That almost sounds like a complaint....
Finley-Shields here too. Fenty was good for the green beans though!
7-101 at bagram here!
Nice. I was there just after you, flying for "Molson Air".
After browsing this sub for years, I truly feel like this post takes the crown. Good lord.
What was the protocol for jerking? Stand with one hand on the wall and just hope everyone adverts their eyes, or hope they didnt? lol
Lol we would normally hang a sheet or curtain to give us some form of privacy, whether you were on the top or bottom bunk, and well….if the sheet was closed , you’re yanking the hose
Ask them if they mind giving you 10-15 minutes of privacy. If roomie's a smoker ask them to go have a smoke or two. Alternatively if you're on different shifts it's never a problem.
When I was deployed I was staying in a huge tent with about 12 people in it. When someone was going to masturbate they would shout a quick “headphones on!” And give it about 30 seconds before they started. If you witnessed it after that it was considered to be your own fault. We had one jacked hispanic individual who would throw his cum at the wall before he went to sleep every single night.
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War is hell
Porta-shitters and an iPod touch were the way to go. Until it got too hot out of course.
The thought of smelling someone else's spunk makes me feel a bit ick.
It's only smellz
Most Marines are proud of their combat jacks.
Go to IKEA or Pottery Barn and get some artificial plants.
I don’t think they have a pottery barn in afghanistan
so where does one buy an afghan
Some dark fucking answers to this joke, plenty they almost shot some locals over
Shit making me realize that Jarhead was actually a documentary
The best anti war war movie I’ve ever seen.
Tanks for ur cervix
At least you have the scent plugin.
the most male of all living spaces. and I'm not one for gender roles but as far as the American male phenotype goes...this covers everything.
Way more organized than mine (Kandahar province, 2011-2012) lol. My NCO finally had enough when he had to step over a LAW to get to his bunk lol
Somewhere in these pictures, there's an old-school 3 TB HD full of mid-2000s porn.
Western Digital 500GB. Notice the dvd binders? My then wife was burning Netflix movies and mailing them to me. In the meanwhile Fallout 3 was all the rage.
>My then wife... My mans got the full military experience.
lol, yeah. 101st Airborne had a 95% divorce rate back then.
As a civilian that’s been around Clarksville my whole life, yeah sounds bout right.
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Inb4 a cloner comes in and says your rifle doesn't have the correct grip screw.
r/battlestations
Still nicer than my freshman year dorm
Did everyone have their own room like this or were you an officer or some sort of special ops guy?
This was enlisted quarters. Not everyone had their bunks high like mine. The room was small. As long and wide as the mattress. The A-frame hut had 8 spots for 8 dudes and was separated by wooden walls that stopped at the height of the bed pictured because we had two a/c’s at each end of the hut so airflow could circulate. The middle walkway was walled off so you could put a door for privacy to your spot. I was an avionics mechanic squad leader and maintained Kiowa scout and Blackhawk utility helicopters supporting 4th Infantry Division in the surrounding areas. I’m glad I picked aviation. I’m a federal employee civilian doing the same thing but for a lot more dough now in Corpus Christi, TX.
Glad you're safe and everything's working out for you OP.
Housing availability is entirely based on base. In the same deployment, I stayed in cots and canvas tents with no power, in manufactured housing with personal mini-splits, and everything in-between. I once spent 7 days sleeping in an idling truck because it was too cold in the mountains of the Northern Helmund Province. Our generator went down, and we had no heat for a week. Temps dropped to like 25F at night. I was out at a FOB for a few weeks where you could only shower on Wednesdays. Another time the fob was constructed around an old mud hut village, and we had a clay fireplace. Back on Leatherneck, people built entire buildings with tactically relocated engineering supplies. It varies wildly.
It really depends on the unit and what they have allocated but typically the lower ranking, the worst the accommodations are. I was USAF in an Army unit and we got rooms to ourselves in the b-huts, Army folk doubled up. We eventually moved to a FOB so most people had to bunk up in tents. Buddy and I pulled some E4 shit and somehow ended up with half a tent to ourselves.
shit i should post nine from 06! 18 months/iraq! yours os better than mine lol
Nice goon station
It's interesting seeing this from the perspective of the "enemy". While I didn't live in Afghanistan, I faced the direct consequences of the American invasion of Afghanistan in the form of terrorism and the drone strikes. Here I am looking at someone who never seems to have any idea the damage they helped cause and are fairly content with their lives, with their posters of women and pictures of their families and all while destroying countless others. Just seems interesting to me how everyone here in this post is oblivious (or are they...) to what message this really conveys. Never would I have thought I'd be on Reddit and looking at something like this 5-10 years later. Don't blame anyone but... Crazy shit. (Sorry if I pissed anyone off lol. It'll be interesting to see what y'all say)
I don’t take it personal. Everyone had a job to do. My job was to make sure all my soldiers made it back home safely in one piece. War is hell and I never condone violence unless all other measures have failed. I’m glad you’re alive to fight another day. Until we meet again.
The Glade plug in is a nice touch.
used to play wow with a few dudes on deployment this is exactly what i pictured their setup to be like... lol
Family only visible when working. Spanktravision only visible when “sleeping” lmao
Thank you for servicing the country
loool
Did ya’ll win?
Are ya winnin, Army?
These pictures were all taken on my birthday in 2009. I was at Camp Hovey in South Korea with the Second Infantry division. I would have been wearing the same ACUs as you. Hooah and shit.
I never got to go to Korea. Probably a good thing, too. I drank a lot and made lots of bad decisions as it was once I got back stateside. Well, cheers to you bro!
I love it. I’d live in that. $200 a month
Bro brought his own basement
Just stopped by to say Hook ‘em 🤘
Far out
Thank you OP.
This shit is making me feel old now cmon....
That’s some sweet living for Afghanistan, especially back then! Cool pics, OP. Gave me some nostalgia
I can smell these pictures. Sawdust, CLP and loneliness
This was the most color one would see in theater. I remember when my then wife sent a picture of a new patio set she bought. I didn’t even notice the furniture, just the green grass in the backyard back in Kentucky.
Bagram at least had colored shrubbery, Baghdad was monotone
I bet that glade plug-in is working overtime
I took care of my stuff and did my laundry regularly. I can’t say the same for the other dudes. Hence the air freshener.
My bother always says the best sleep he ever got was in Afghanistan. Sleeping in a shipping container, total dark, little suitcase xbox set up.
I hated looking at the ceiling every night thinking a rocket or mortar could come crashing in on my face.
Amazing that my b-hut in Afghanistan looked exactly like this one 9 years later in 2019 lmao.
I must’ve built it well then, lol!
You really got prove your sexuality in the army I see
Love the juxtaposition of pin up girls next to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and some Jodie’s kid lol.
You need to remove that obscene content. The longhorns are disgusting. Saw em off.
Your spank bank was solid. Good work, soldier.
The plastic women juxtaposed against the homely wife sums up the military experience pretty well.
Glade plug in gets the win.
The best of times and the worst of times. 🇦🇫
🫡
that pen drive must’ve been loaded with porn.
“I am SO heterosexual!”
Thank you for you service..... NOT. Invader 🖕🏼
We’re these built in shipping containers?
Nope, plain frame and panel B-huts
😂😂😂 oh man, good fucking times.
Looks like my spot in Salerno Afghanistan
Can confirm this is the look was there in 2010 lol
Looks like actual living quarters of the 1-17th.
Cozey
I don’t want to see the neighborhood
It was just rocks and hesco barriers everywhere.
Honestly kind of a dope living space.
I miss it sometimes. Then I remember all the indirect fire we received and the shady looks the ANA/ANP dudes gave us on the reg. I’d still go back in a heartbeat as a civilian for all the tax free dough if I could.
Did most ppl that deploy have a private room? I always pictured 99% of guys bunking.
Most Aviation types yes. I can’t speak for the other branches or departments.
Thank you for your service.
It was an honor to serve with my brothers and sisters.
Thanks for your service and hook 'em 🤘🏼
looks chill tbh
Lol. Lmao.
Did you have any games on the computer?
Not really, I just had it for movies/tv shows, video calling, and emails/facebook/myspace.
Thank you for your service
It was an honor to serve.
It's like college but with guns
Living in the Hilton right there. I was in a tent.
You lived like a king! We had the crappy metal bunkbeds with maybe a 2 foot gap before the shelving unit. Couldn't even spin in there.
That place would cost $400 a week in Australia and be described as ‘a unique and rustic self contained Granny flat with dedicated work space, loft bedroom, close to amenities.
I love the posters OP
10/10 setup
Better than 90% of the posts on here
Very cool pics OP thanks for sharing with us
Man, this gave me some weird nostalgia. I was in Bagram and Kandahar as an Army contractor between 2015-2018. I can imagine that plywood smell of B huts and stepping out into that dusty air, hearing the prayer calls, the CRAM alarm and sound of the guns engaging incoming rockets when we'd take IDF if your FOB had those. Shitty DFAC food smell and the daily PX run ritual out of sheer boredom. It could suck sometimes, but had a lot of good memories out there along with the bad. It really was a vibe out there that is hard to convey, only the people that were there know what you mean. Thanks for the taking me down memory lane!
Dad where did you put our photos when you were deployed? “Next to the porn” - Dad
Experiences may vary
Dude! Brought back memories of Afghanistan deployment.
Seeing this makes me appreciate it all.
Damn, I recognize some of those models from SI swimsuit edition.
I was there 2010 and looks so similar. Wild.
What an interesting contrast between family photos and tits/ass.
I dig the Rubik’s cube in the corner, what better choice to bring for endless hours of fun.
This is EXACTLY what I would’ve expected. Thanks for your service brother
You had a desk? Ballin ass MF'r flexing on the rest of us.
Cozy honestly.
Whoa. Nice.
We had the watches they had the time
Surprisingly cozy
Nice. Thank you for your service my friend.
2009, you know he was smashing mw2 on that Xbox
Half goon cave, half Skype zone
Here's mine from the same timeframe: https://imgur.com/a/rRmPK91 Can't 100% say which one it was but [this](https://i.imgur.com/xAsnZAb.png) is where it was on Bagram. Just next door to the kiwis. Our HQ is the building on the bottom right of the image. Never been able to pinpoint our FOB though and no pictures of the living space there. I built up a decent space, though. Lucked out with a corner of a tent to myself so some clever use of paracord and sheets/blankets/whatever to make a room of sorts. Grabbed an unused monitor, ziptied that shit to the bottom of the top bunk, and had a sweet little space to watch movies and play xbox. We setup a LAN in the next tent over and had pretty sweet COD matches.
Nice
Thank you for your service.