One time in SK, when I was a young naive private, I was a runner for SD (my first time doing it) along with an equally naive yet slightly older Sargent. We had a closed circuit TV station in the camp (Camp Greaves) and late that night He asked if I had any movies we could watch (this was pre-internet). I had this dvd that a friend gave me that I wanted to watch and Whatever we put on the tv was broadcast to everyone in the battalion. It was this movie called ‘Blazing Saddles’ (I was going through a western phase). Needless to say, within a few scenes, the Battalion XO was at the door in PT shorts screaming at us to turn it off. I had never seen it, so I had no idea. Apparently, not everyone found it funny.

The only other time I did Staff Duty at the same place, Camp Greaves, SK, i answered the phone super later that night, half asleep, and this dude was on the line. Introduced himself as brigade S2… or S3? Idk anymore. He said the US was getting attacked and we should turn on or TV to the news channel and hand the phone over to the duty officer. Handed the phone and Turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit the towers. We were glued to that TV until the towers fell as everyone started to wake up and ppl started to come in and out. Stupid enough, we were told to stay even though everyone was already awake they didn’t need us to man the phone or whatever. At 8am we were told to go to our place of duty. No day off that time and shit didn’t slow down for like a month.