Navy SEALs and Their Unabashed Humor: Unfiltered, Uncensored and Unhinged! by Billy Allmon

Author:Billy Allmon [Allmon, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Pippin Publishing
Published: 2015-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

BROKEN DICK

On some SEAL deployments, for whatever the reasons, the deployment can be more physically demanding on a platoon than on other deployments. During our SEAL platoon deployment to the Western Pacific, several members of our SEAL platoon, including myself, were beleaguered by numerous random accidents. These “accidents” took place on operational missions and exercises. The injuries were comprised of dislocated shoulders from conducting “drop and pickup.” Drop and pickup is a maneuver where you would roll off a rubber boat that is tied to the side of a patrol boat at designated intervals into the water at a high speed. Once in the water, you would then swim into the shore to gather intelligence on the surface and subsurface about what is near or on the beach, and then swim back out to sea to get picked up by the same patrol boat.

When the patrol boat approached you on the surface of the water, you would be snatched out of the water by a guy inside a small rubber boat that is attached to the side of the patrol boat, and he would be holding a garden hose with a nylon rope through it. This garden hose was called a sling because it was in the shape of a sling/loop, and the guy with the sling would snag your arm, that you were holding above your head, with the sling, and pull you out of the water and back into the small rubber boat. This tactical maneuver for inserting combat swimmers works very well. However, if the boat is traveling at high speed, it will dislocate your shoulder when your arm is snagged by the sling.

There were many broken ribs from rock climbing, broken arms and legs from parachuting into the trees (not by choice), and head injuries sustained from falling off the sides of a ship at night that we had to climb up (hitting a steel deck with your head is never a good idea). All the various missions and training exercises that we had conducted throughout our entire deployment had left scars on many of us, not to mention the invisible emotional scars.

Near the end of our tour of duty, and as was customary at the time, we all had a platoon photograph taken. One photo was taken for ourselves, where we were fully suited up for combat (so cool), and one taken that was to be displayed on the quarterdeck of the command where we had served our tour of duty. The photograph that we were going to present to our unit commander was to reflect all of our injuries that we had acquired during our deployment while assigned to his command.

In preparation for this particular platoon photo, we all went over to the base medical clinic and had plaster casts put on all the various parts of our bodies, as well as bloody bandages to resemble all of our other sustained injuries. When we were all done getting bandaged up, we looked like we had just escaped from a field medical hospital in a combat zone.

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