For the first few months of military service, we go through some pretty intense training during the week, and maybe we have to pull duty on a weekend.
So, when a holiday approaches and the commanding officer awards your unit a 96-hour liberty, you’d better take advantage.
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Check out what many young troops do on their first 96-hour liberty away from the base.
1. When everyone is told, their 96-hour liberty has been approved at the same time.
Best news ever! (Images via Giphy)
2. How you caught a ride to leave the base.
Stuntin’ 101. (Images via Giphy)
3. What it feels like walking into your hotel room
All mine. (Images via Giphy)
4. What you look like drinking your first beer in months and can finally take a shower by yourself.
It tastes so good. (Images via Giphy)
5. How you looked properly preparing yourself for an evening out with the boys
Need to buff those floors. (Images via Giphy)
6. How awesome you felt drinking with your new military friends
I feel so cool doing a fourth wall break. (Images via Giphy)
7. That moment when you notice a female troop for the first time out of uniform, and she’s hot
Holy sh*t! (Images via Giphy)
8. After a few hours of partying, you start showing off your boot camp muscle gains
“I have the power.” (Images via Giphy)
9. Eating that first real hamburger after getting the beer munchies
So good. (Images via Giphy)
10. Trying to sleep after drinking way too much the first night
“I thought I was supposed to pass right out.” (Images via Giphy)
11. Waking up with a hangover and you need a quick pick-me-up to start the day
Coffee was meant to be ingested, but whatever. (Images via Giphy)
12. Thinking for something fun to do after you recovered from your hangover
I’m so bored. (Images via Giphy)
13. When you’re replying to all those Facebook messages for the first time in months
So many messages. (Images via Giphy)
14. When your boys invite you to come to the local dance club
Gotta practice. (Images via Giphy)
15. How you think you’re dancing at the club after a few drinks
Just like back at home. (Images via Giphy)
16. How you’re really dancing at the club after those drinks
How do I look? (Images via Giphy)
17. When you find some girl who actually said “sure”
It’s a new world record. (Images via Giphy)
18. What your conscience is trying to tell you before it’s too late
“Shut up brain.” (Images via Giphy)
19. Waking up next to that girl who said “sure” and she’s not what you remembered
Beer goggles are real. (Images via Giphy)
20. Making your escape
Shh! (Images via Giphy)
21. Getting made fun of by your boys for hooking up with her the next morning
You had it coming. (Images via Giphy)
22. Your reaction
Damn. (Images via Giphy)
23. When the group plans an evening at the strip club after dinner
Cheers. (Images via Giphy)
24. But you really want to go now
Run! (Images via Giphy)
25. Then you get hammered at the strip club
Not that hammer, but whatever. (Images via Giphy)
26. When your guys find the first stripper who appears interested
“We so had her!” (Images via Giphy)
27. Then the gents get kicked out of the strip club
I guess we weren’t allowed to touch? (Images via Giphy)
28. Then someone drunkenly jokes saying “you’re not tough enough to get a tattoo”
That’s a good one bro. (Images via Giphy)
29. Then follows it up by saying “no balls”
Wait. What? (Images via Giphy)
30. Waking up the next morning with an unwanted tattoo
Sh*ttiest tattoo ever. (Images via Giphy)
31. Stay in the hotel room for the whole day and think about all the money you wasted
What was I thinking? (Images via Giphy)
32. Heading back to base after your 96 is up.
I don’t think I can make it. (Images via Giphy)
33. Look at all the photos you took the next day at work — that 96 was so much freakin’ fun
That was the best weekend ever! (Images via Giphy)What did you do on your first 96-hour liberty? Comment below.