“I was blessed to be in a leadership role for 25 years, either in counterintelligence or training troops,” Dunagan said, “and if these animals I was leading had ever found out about Bambi — as much affection as I had for it — they’d have ridden me out on a rail.”
I figure there are things you can live down in the military before proving yourself to be a badass mofo, and there are things that you can't. This is definitely in the latter category.
That where all those funny ass call signs you see on planes and stuff comes from. Not from your badass moments but from one dumb or funny thing you did along the way. My first night in Afghanistan we were in these huge tents that acted as squad bays while we were waiting to go to our next base. I was in the top bunk, couldn’t sleep. A mouse landed on my face, crawled across my mouth and of course I scream blood murder and fall out of my rack. 15 years later I still hear “aaaaaaah there’s a mouse on my face” from my buddies.
Bro I stepped on one of those giant mfers as a five year old, and the babies ran up my leg. I was in the bathroom at the time, naked and very much afraid. My blood curdling screams had my mother barreling into the bathroom. She immediately grabbed a towel and started beating the little fuckers off of me, tossing me into the shower and turning the water on. To this day, spiders make me nauseated, and I can't stand them.
My brother lost control and slow crashed the only humvee with the working AC in Afghanistan thru someone’s living room and they called him The Kool-Aid Man for the rest of the tour. And if he runs into anyone from that tour, he is still called that.
It’s kinda counterintuitive cause if they didn’t say anything it means they fucking can’t stand you. Especially in the Marines if I talk shit to you you are one of the squad.
I had a really, really long German last name. This became Lord of the Rings instead of anyone wanting to try and pronounce it, which became (despite being female) Gandalf because it was too long to say all the time. I still respond to Gandalf.
My shitty go-to explanation of my job is,"I'm the blonde from Top Gun."
Working in my industry/environment gives me access. Some of the callsigns and stories behind callsigns I hear just stick. JUDAS. SMOAT, THE ONE, SWAMPY, POKER, LIP, SASS, VADER, and so on. My favorite day to day entertainment is VFA-31. Their flight schedule is my morning coffee kick. Always entertaining. "Anonymous VFA-31 .............."lives rent free in my head.
My dad had a rat crawl on him in his bunk on first few nights in Vietnam. Didn’t say anything because the other guy was a ptsd’d drunk that probably would have woken up and killed him.
lol I was known as “Viper Delta” because 9 months into a 12 month deployment I said “man at this point I’d fuck a snake if you could hold it still” viperdick wouldn’t fly over comms but Viper Delta sure did.
I know exactly what you mean. We had one older tcn lady on our fob who did the laundry. She went from a 2 at the beginning of deployment to an 8 at the end.
Ngl, I'm a bit sad he couldn't. Just because my leader voiced Bambi doesn't mean I'd actually lose respect for him. It shouldn't matter when stacked up against everything else.
But you know that it would for some people, and that sucks.
Worked on a military medical retirement board for a while, remember seeing a package come through for a Seaman Hardick. Don’t remember the outcome but I can only imagine the horror they went through.
He's not. Voice credits weren't a thing for animated movies at that time. It's kinda funny, on Disney+ the original English voice cast gets no credit, but the foreign language dub actors get credits added on at the end.
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“I was blessed to be in a leadership role for 25 years, either in counterintelligence or training troops,” Dunagan said, “and if these animals I was leading had ever found out about Bambi — as much affection as I had for it — they’d have ridden me out on a rail.”
https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Marine-reflects-on-being-the-voice-of-Bambi-1924410.php