Monday, February 21, 2011

Jumping off an aircraft carrier

So, my compulsive liar platoon sergeant once said that he had jumped off of an aircraft carrier. Let's break that down.

A. On today's supercarriers, the flight deck is roughly 60 feet from the surface of the water. You would need a near perfect dive or toothpick for your leap to not be fatal.

B. The U.S. Army is the ground force of the U.S. Military. There is absolutely no reason for a soldier to be on an aircraft carrier. Most of the security is done by the Marines.

C. Even in the most unlikely of circumstances that a soldier is on an aircraft carrier, why in the land of the free, home of the brave would he have to bail on his sailor brothers and take to the seas?

Comment on why you think this alledgedly happened, because I'm lost in the sauce.

27 comments:

D. said...

Just jump

UncommissionedArt said...

He wanted to, uh... go fishing?

DL said...

This is really sick, man.

T. Banacek said...

Maybe he was drunk and confused.

Bassislv said...

hahahaha, what a liar

Motivationalized said...

Well, one of my professors at UNI told us the story of how he once punched a shark in the nose with a underwater camera. Needless to say, we now use him in Chick Norris jokes...

Rabidmoose said...

Sounds like a cool story and just that, but hey he might just be really awesome.

RaZer said...

I sincerely doubt it, those decks are very, very high above the water.

Jordan said...

i think he meant to say something else

Tasty said...

lol I forgot the psychology behind that, making up grandiose stories or whatever, but yeah he's whacked.

Zakk said...

Hmmm thats strange

Anonymous said...

He just wants to look alpha lol

Alopix said...

I don't believe him. If he did it though he must be really crazy!

Unknown said...

Is your sergeant Beowulf? Maybe he felt like fighting some sea monsters.

Anonymous said...

To get away from the other retards?

Samuel said...

bad liar

Patti D. said...

Maybe it was a bet?

Anonymous. said...

Yeah man, just do it.

Me said...

I'm pretty sure mythbusters busted something like this. jumping into water like this is like jumping into concrete. essentially the water 'can't get away' faster enough to cushion the blow.

jopjopjop said...

liar!

mtn said...

definitely drunk! i'd bet my left shoe

Anonymous said...

One time I huffed a-lot of paint and I thought I had sex with gwyneth paltrow. It turned out to be a horse. Maybe he huffed paint and jumped off a bigwheel

Polybius said...

Maybe it was a boat and he doesn't know it.

Candlej- said...

probably just a dick-measuring contest; gotta look ballsy/crazy, ya know?

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Ion762 said...

he wandered onto one confused and drunk and the sailors pushed him off would be my guess if anything was true out of his statement

King Artur said...

Well obviously he was in a jeep that got airdropped in the wrong spot, so he ended up on the carrier. Then, when he realized that he wasn't where he was supposed to be, he jumped off the side and swam to land

!sense! said...

Wouldnt he get into trouble for causing a panic?

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