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The "Incoming" Siren in Afghanistan and the local Tornado warning Siren sound very similar and have similar results in that I look for Shelter, preferably behind concrete...
That said, the siren in Afghanistan got to me much worse than the sounds of mortars impacting...
The impact was a relief, as if you lived to hear it, you were good to go...
The siren just leaves you in horrible suspense....
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Turdlike, by default.
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I slept with one of those clocks for many years. You can sleep right through those bongs but if it doesn't strike, your instantly awake. Time to find the key and wind the clock.
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Getting thrown from your bunk after the skip fell asleep at the wheel and ran aground in the middle of the night somewhere on the north west side of Afognak.
Slept with an eye open after that one.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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that zipper pavement crap after I been out late gettin muh crunk on
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Campfire 'Bwana
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When I stop breathing in my sleep. Man, I hate that! Same here, sometimes I am even dream that I'm diving and run out of air and as soon as I surface I wake up and get the biggest breath of air I can. It wakes the wife up too. Do a search on CPAP. You both need one.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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A cold wet Airedale nose on the back of the neck.
He wants to go outside NOW. my Airedale sleeps with his nose jammed in my ear most nights so, i know something is wrong when i don't feel the nose. �The Airedale� declared Teddy Roosevelt, �can do anything any other dog can do, then whip the other dog, if he has to.�
�The constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people, that they may exercise it by themselves, that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed!� � Thomas Jefferson
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Olders used to tell me, when I was a kid, that whenever you dream that you're falling, there's a reason that you always wake-up before you hit bottom � that if you'd hit bottom before you woke, you'd die right there[/i] Not true.When I was in my teens I dreamed that I fell off a bridge and hit the ground below.In my dream I was looking down at my parents and my brother looking at my body......one of those dreams that you never forget
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Hearing the terror in my wife's voice when she told me someone was on the porch trying to get in. It turned out to be a raccoon, which, when shot in the face with a .22, tried to jump from the porch through our bedroom window effectively freaking my wife out. 
30-06 till i die, the greatest round ever! I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy! CEO of a Turdlike People: Turds & Tats Division... (per Ingwe  )
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any noise outside and i'm wide awake until I'm sure it is nothing. I sleep very light and it takes almost nothing to bring me awake.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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A couple things get my attention;; during the fishing season sometimes 100's of boat anchor in the rivers and all (including mine) have the potential to drag anchor and crash into other boats,,it's loud!!
The other is when our dogs go berserk in the middle of the night and I have to go out and deal with a brown bear messing with our smokehouse or chickens. I've progressed from a 358 Norma-425 Express, and finally to a 458 Win Mag,a fine rig for this type of thing.
I tend to use more than enough gun
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458 works for methheads as well. great piece of kit- a solution for nearly any problem.
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The United States Air Force bombing the crap out of Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia while you are sleeping on a vehicle's hood a little more than a mile away will wake you up right quick.
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One of your Sgt.s hollering "Gas, Gas, Gas This is no drill", at oh dark thirty.
I'm not cheap, I'm frugal. ![[Linked Image]](http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member501.png)
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Getting bit in the shoulder by a conenose bug will stand you right up in bed. Then you go looking for what bit you as your shoulder is on fire. I took a can of raid and chased the sucker down. Finally got it and then looked it up on internet.
Conenose bugs are members of the family Reduviidae, commonly called assassin bugs, because most members of this family are predators of other insects. Conenose bugs or kissing bugs (genus Triatoma) are an exception to the family rule and are bloodsucking parasites that feed on a wide variety of domestic and wild animals, plus humans.
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First night in RVN,
a RAT jumped up on my right shoulder,
ran down and across my chest,
down my left leg,
then jumped down off my cot to the floor.
Stayed awake THAT night !!
Old Fishermen never die, we just get reel tired.
May you build a ladder to the stars
and climb on every rung.
May you stay......Forever young
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Fire Alarm on a Warship 3000 miles from land!
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� and I mean wide awake, right now!
� dozing-off while holding a mug of hot chocolate in your lap
� yanking your leg free from the clutch of a pursuing bad guy in a nightmare � and kicking the concrete wall beside the bed � hard Wifeys voice, I go on auto-insta-kill till I see that every things ok. Gunner
Trump Won!
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Scouting the mountains by myself, and camped out around 8,000'. Lightly sleeping around 2:00 am, and hearing the light stepping of some wild animal walking slowly near my tent.
This usually gets me up. As soon as I move the padding stops for awhile.
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When the damn cat jumps up on the bed right in the middle of the night and lands right in the middle of your stomach balls! Dad's second wife had a 19 pound Siamese, damn if that cat didn't know right were the twig and berries were!
Sean
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The sound of one of my buddies in his tent on a hunting trip screaming" No!! Get off me!!" Everybody in camp was wondering what or who in the heck was happening to him. I laughed myself silly cause I knew he was a "Sleep Screamer" for years but they didn't. He got a lot of funny looks the next day and everybody wondered who his guest was.
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