Covering my mates in burning hot shit!!
I was in Saudi in 1990 waiting to cross the border for the start of Op Granby (Gulf War 1). The days were long and hot and consisted of constant exercising and waiting for the nod to begin the ground push into Southern Iraq.
Being a FNG (Fucking New Guy), I was constantly chosen to do all the menial shit jobs ie, guard duty, pan bash, and latrine duty.
Latrine duty consisted of pouring a jerry can of petrol into the the trench that contained a weeks worth of shit and piss from a squadrons worth of blokes (roughly 130), lighting it and letting the noxious rancid waste burn.
On one of these occasions me and the other three FNG's were doing the normal latrine duty. It was my turn to light the petrol but unfortunately I lit the petrol soaked rag as my mate Eugene was still pouring in the petrol.
WHOOSH the flames shot straight into the jerry can. Now a normal, well adjusted bloke would have dropped the jerry can, unfortunately Eugene, being a nutter started running all over the place still holding onto the burning jerry can and covering all our gear, weapons , respirators with burning fuel.
As this was going on the jerry can was expanding, getting bigger and bigger like a balloon.
He eventually tossed the jerry can into the flaming shit pit, the rest of us breathed a sigh of relief and turned to try and put out the burning fuel that was gradually destroying our equipment.
Must have been 20-30 seconds when the jerry cans elasticity gave way and with a loud BANG the jerry can exploded and covered all in the vicinity in burning shit and piss.
Oh how we laughed!!!!
(Hammy1801 may have scabies!, Thu 31 May 2012, 20:26, 3 replies)

I bet your Sgt was laughing the hardest.
They have that sort of sense of humour.
No... wait... It's clowns. I get the two easily confused (Ex Signals, you see).
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 9:03, closed)

However did we win..?

(judgetheobscure used to sweep in butchers' shops., Fri 1 Jun 2012, 19:56, closed)

Did we win???
Nah, we went back for round two in the noughties and found the middle east a bit more complicated than previously thought.
(Hammy1801 may have scabies!, Tue 5 Jun 2012, 20:01, closed)