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Good Lord I remember those KP duty days! Long days and punch drunk…would just laugh hysterically at the silliest things.
Yes, it was awful work. But ya hadda make it fun. Some of the dumbest shit!

Contests, dumb jokes and the occasional fight.

My most memorable moment: I was at Ft Hood, a new private e2 shitbird and these two guys start arguing:

Pvt 1: oh yeah?
Pvt 2: yeah.
Pvt 1: fuck you!
Pvt 2: No!

It didn’t go farther than that, cuz we were just all falling about the place. I don’t know if it was the best comeback or the worst comeback of all time!
 
I wish I could find you a good video I saw of a "blowout!"
Once control is lost and thousands of feet of drill pipe are blown out of the hole, erosion happens RAPIDLY, blowing rocks the size of softballs into the sky, which come raining back down.

Believe me, 16,000+ PSI, coming out of a 6-8 inch hole, sounds as if the hounds of hell have been turned loose. I've been there and it automatically kicks one into "fight or flight mode"... with nowhere to go.
I don't recall if "blowout" was what I was seeking, but it was something that sparked during your Oil Rig 101 discussions with this landlubber. :ROFLMAO:

There are some wild video clips from Oil Rigs out there on the tube :oops:

The only blowout I've seen was in the Hollywood mvoie, "Deepwater Horizon". Every interview I've seen of a Hollywood director quotes them as saying something to the effect of, "We researched to make this as close to reality as we could". Doesn't mean they achieved their objective. And I have 0 personal knowledge to call out anything contrary to reality.
 
Believe me, 16,000+ PSI, coming out of a 6-8 inch hole, sounds as if the hounds of hell have been turned loose. I've been there and it automatically kicks one into "fight or flight mode"... with nowhere to go.
So one's first thought in that moment would naturally be, "Let me get this on camera" 😮

Hard for me to even imagine 16,000 PSI. I mean, my car tires only take around 35 :oops:
 
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