MAJOR bummer man.
Like dayyyyum.
I talked to Battle Dwarf today, and he assured me it wasn’t me… that it was a few things ‘going on in the background’ over and above which when explained to me, I totally get it<\/strong>. And yeah, I’m the guy who’s having a shit-life right now, in that yeah, life has<\/strong> “kicked me in the Jimmah!” pretty fucking hard over the past few… to the point I would be happy if April 2026 was nuked from orbit… including ME.
Talk about a suckfestivus.
<Le Sigh>
I hope in the future I can be considered to be a guest again back on there… but IRL? Well… we all know how MY luck is amiright?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So because of this, I’ll relay an old Basic Training Story to y’all that’s sort of humorous. Hopefully y’all will get a grin out of it, as well… I’m currently all out of smiles and chuckles on my end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story is that I ACTUALLY Puked\u00a0in my D.I.s\u00a0Face back in maybe? 1990… somewhere around June of 90 as I recall… The food gets put in those three tall aluminum can, and a cup of boiling water gets dumped into the carrier. They’ve been around since World War Eleven according to Representative Omar… (Jes’ Sayin’)… they’re pretty ubiquitous in the DotMil… so anyways, we got a meal delivery of HOT chow… which unfortunately included brussel sprouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n BOILED <\/strong>Brussel sprouts.\u00a0 Pvt BCE\/Me: “I’m allergic to them Drill Sar’nt!!!!” (screamed at him full force, and I dunno if I am, it was all I could think of on-the-fly that\u202fmight<\/em>\u202fkeep me from getting killed) <\/p>\n\n\n\n D.I.\u00a0Ignorant: (Steps forward, shouting) “That’s BULLSHIT! You will eat these\u00a0greens,\u00a0right here, and right now! No way on God’s Green Earth have -I-\u202fever<\/strong>\u202fheard of an allergy to Brussel Sprouts… Now, open your\u00a0fucking gob\u00a0annnnd\u202fbegin!!!”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pvt BCE\/Me: Opens mouth, starts chowing down… eyes begin to water… second Sprout goes in… > queue disturbing stomach noises < <\/p>\n\n\n\n D.I.\u00a0Ignorant: (Gets face-to-face w\/me, who was diligently chewing and knowing\u00a0what’s\u00a0coming) “Now Pvt BCE, aren’t those just the\u202fbest?<\/strong>\u202f Just like momma makes back home… swallow ’em and tell me and all these other privates what you think of good ole US Army Hot Field Chow!”\u00a0 Pvt BCE\/Me: -Swallows masticated nastiness- body starts trembling…sweat starts pouring from all the pores and orifices… skin is now a gray-ish\u00a0pallor according to witnesses later…\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n D.I.\u00a0Ignorant: “Well Pvt BCE?”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pvt BCE\/Me: Opens mouth to reply<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u202fHOOOORF!!!!!<\/strong>\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n I proceed to projectile vomit the -entirety- of my lunch\u00a0allllll\u00a0over the D.I.’s chest… Fucker got Forrest Whitter Eye at me, while I weakly lost my legs… went to my knees and said\u00a0almost in\u00a0a whisper… I passed out right after… between nerves and the whole situation, I was out for a few. They ended up hitting me with an I.V. as I was also dehydrated (which didn’t help the situation as it seemed). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings and Salutations!Yeah… as stated in the comments regarding last nights podcast: “After serious discussion, the decision was made by the inner circle to delete all evidence of last night\u2019s stream. We appreciate everyone who watched, but last night was an embarrassment to our cause that we\u2019d rather forget ever existed. To quote one member … Continue reading “Nuked From Orbit and a Basic Story”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It was at Ft Benning.
I got served Brussel Sprouts on a field FTX (a field training exercise for the Infantry) on one of the rare “Hot ‘A’ meals (an actual hot meal) delivered to the field via Mermite cans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mermite.jpg\")
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Can’t\u00a0stand the smell of them, I get flat out nauseated just because of the stench. Unfortunately, they forced the kid on the chow line who was serving from the Marmite to put them on my tray.\u00a0
Usually\u00a0I went out of my way to avoid getting them on my tray under ANY circumstances ‘cos of the Basic Training Rules of Food the whole ‘if you take it\/you eat it’ and there\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0any way I could…
Now mind you, I -tried- <\/strong>to skate…\u00a0I buried them under napkins and the leftover inedible chikin bones… call it “camo’ing” them fuckers so’s the D.I. at the garbage check\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0see them…
Unfortunately, per my usual luck, I got caught and it went down something like this:\u00a0
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D.I.\u00a0Ignorant:\u00a0 “Private BCE! What haven’t you eaten your delicious,\u00a0nuuu-trious, government-approved Brussel Sprouts???!!!???”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>stomach starts making audible violent rebellion noises<\/strong><<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I recall, it was a thick stinky greenish barf…
I didn’t have enough loft to get him in the\u00a0phizz… just enough to splatter the front of his BDUs with the\u00a0half eaten\u00a0remains of the Fried\u00a0Chikin\u00a0and Green Beans I -did- manage to scarf down…
It ran\u00a0alllll\u00a0the way down and dripped on to his spit shined\u00a0Corcorans\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I…tried… to… tell….\u00a0you… Drill….Sar…”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the ‘incident’, I found out D.I.\u00a0Ignorant\u00a0got his ass handed to him by the First Shirt for ignoring that I had told him about an allergy. I mean I have no idea if there IS such a thing, BUT… My circumstances and what happened seemed to confirm it enough that the 1Sgt didn’t want to risk it….
I mean TBH, I made up the ‘allergy’ on the fly… I mean I just knew<\/strong> I couldn’t stomach them from experience… same goes for broccoli and all them other sprout-like veggies.
Either way, it saved my ass… and NO I still cannot stand the smell sight nor taste of the dreaded Sprouts.\u00a0
I mean Hell, I didn’t get smoked…
AND I got to puke on my D.I. so I call it a win.
So More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/680265714_10238277497429795_181325887980458199_n-1024x787.jpg\")
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