This is by no means a thread intending to bash a fellow USMC Officer, but rather an informational thread to warn and inform other Officers that people like this do exist. This is probably a little outdated, but I was talking to someone about this the other day and he was dumbfounded so I decided to share it even though this takes place over a year ago.
My TBS roommate was, by far, the nastiest creature on earth. Bigworm and Jester can both attest, since they were in my Platoon. I'll have to get one of my Fire-team members to get on here and add some more stuff. Anyway, it started with range week(s). We started noticing that he wouldn't shower so we started keeping a close watch between the other 3 fire team members. At first it was funny, then 2 and a half weeks later, after no shower, it started to become annoying. Funk filled our room. I remember vividly our room failing a field day inspection because of the 'smell' coming from his side of the room. We started ragging on him about not showering and he finally showered, but it was less than a minute shower at that, I know because all 3 of us were curious if he even showered at all. He had the strangest habits, he would only eat Bologna and pop tarts.....and every once in a while pizza, and was constantly downing protein shakes. When the holidays rolled around and TBS gave us 2 weeks of basket leave, it was a much-needed break, not from TBS, but from this guy. It gets better. While he was on leave, he had to see the dentist to get 24 cavities filled, 4, which were crowns. Yeah, I forgot to mention not only did he not shower, but he didn't brush his teeth. So the bologna and pop tart resin were constantly eating away at his teeth undisturbed. But this guy is locked-on when it comes to tactics/knowledge and is a friggin PT machine.... but there's more. The previous year, he had some kind of nose surgery and it never healed because everyday he would dig the scab out of his nose and it would start bleeding again, which is gross, but not as gross as him leaving bloody kleenex on the floor of our Q or on the table in the classroom. One of my fireteam members about lost his mind when he crawled out of the rack and almost stepped in a small pile of bloody kleenex, so after a couple of weeks, we had him broke of leaving them around, but we still had to see him pick his scab out of his nose, like clock-work, everyday! Meanwhile, we're still ragging him because his feet smell and it's driving us nuts in the Q. We finally rag him so much that, instead of getting on a steady "shower schedule" he starts rubbing that hand sanitizer on his feet. We tell our Plt mates and they think we're exaggerating until they come to our room. We also bring this to our SPC's attention, he just laughed and also thought we were exaggerating and just told us to "police our own". Well, a few months down the road, during a field day I remember one of my fire team members cleaning the fridge, the fridge that only 'creature' used because no one else wanted to come near it, anyway, he pointed out that a package of bologna that had been sitting in there was oozing bologna slime and it was dripping in 'creatures' protein shake jug. Once again, we made fun of him and called him creature and he thinks we are just *******s, that he's just a normal guy, then he takes a drink of his protein shake and me and the other guy about vomit. We would find half eaten pop tarts behind the TV, on the window seal, behind his desk, I mean WTF, is it possible someone could be this nasty? He had a perpetual dirt build up under all his finger nails AND toenails, it just never went away, and I'm talking about in Garrison, yeah it happens in the field. I'm just glad I lived in housing, I still had to stay there sometimes, but my other two roommates had to live with the funk constantly. The Creature ended up graduating at the top of our TBS company and earned Meritorious Augmentation AND 0302. The guy was locked on, but just had a hygiene problem....bigtime. Yeah, I know it seems like I'm over-exaggerating. Any other Alpha 02-03 guys remember him?
My TBS roommate was, by far, the nastiest creature on earth. Bigworm and Jester can both attest, since they were in my Platoon. I'll have to get one of my Fire-team members to get on here and add some more stuff. Anyway, it started with range week(s). We started noticing that he wouldn't shower so we started keeping a close watch between the other 3 fire team members. At first it was funny, then 2 and a half weeks later, after no shower, it started to become annoying. Funk filled our room. I remember vividly our room failing a field day inspection because of the 'smell' coming from his side of the room. We started ragging on him about not showering and he finally showered, but it was less than a minute shower at that, I know because all 3 of us were curious if he even showered at all. He had the strangest habits, he would only eat Bologna and pop tarts.....and every once in a while pizza, and was constantly downing protein shakes. When the holidays rolled around and TBS gave us 2 weeks of basket leave, it was a much-needed break, not from TBS, but from this guy. It gets better. While he was on leave, he had to see the dentist to get 24 cavities filled, 4, which were crowns. Yeah, I forgot to mention not only did he not shower, but he didn't brush his teeth. So the bologna and pop tart resin were constantly eating away at his teeth undisturbed. But this guy is locked-on when it comes to tactics/knowledge and is a friggin PT machine.... but there's more. The previous year, he had some kind of nose surgery and it never healed because everyday he would dig the scab out of his nose and it would start bleeding again, which is gross, but not as gross as him leaving bloody kleenex on the floor of our Q or on the table in the classroom. One of my fireteam members about lost his mind when he crawled out of the rack and almost stepped in a small pile of bloody kleenex, so after a couple of weeks, we had him broke of leaving them around, but we still had to see him pick his scab out of his nose, like clock-work, everyday! Meanwhile, we're still ragging him because his feet smell and it's driving us nuts in the Q. We finally rag him so much that, instead of getting on a steady "shower schedule" he starts rubbing that hand sanitizer on his feet. We tell our Plt mates and they think we're exaggerating until they come to our room. We also bring this to our SPC's attention, he just laughed and also thought we were exaggerating and just told us to "police our own". Well, a few months down the road, during a field day I remember one of my fire team members cleaning the fridge, the fridge that only 'creature' used because no one else wanted to come near it, anyway, he pointed out that a package of bologna that had been sitting in there was oozing bologna slime and it was dripping in 'creatures' protein shake jug. Once again, we made fun of him and called him creature and he thinks we are just *******s, that he's just a normal guy, then he takes a drink of his protein shake and me and the other guy about vomit. We would find half eaten pop tarts behind the TV, on the window seal, behind his desk, I mean WTF, is it possible someone could be this nasty? He had a perpetual dirt build up under all his finger nails AND toenails, it just never went away, and I'm talking about in Garrison, yeah it happens in the field. I'm just glad I lived in housing, I still had to stay there sometimes, but my other two roommates had to live with the funk constantly. The Creature ended up graduating at the top of our TBS company and earned Meritorious Augmentation AND 0302. The guy was locked on, but just had a hygiene problem....bigtime. Yeah, I know it seems like I'm over-exaggerating. Any other Alpha 02-03 guys remember him?
