My friend Cas (A veteran's Story)

Since its Veterans heres a true story about one:
My Friend Cas,
A few years ago I was in the Navy and living in Japan. A lot is made about the bonds service members form and itâ??s pretty much true. I outranked him but he had been on a ship longer as I spent the first 3 years of my enlistment in another branch of the navy. He showed me how to get by on the ship, and we became real good friends. He was from NJ and joined to get away from his town were his dad was mobbed up and wanted Cas to be also. He gave a try in the navy instead and wanted to fly straight. After our first deployment we got an apartment together and chilled all the time. Thatâ??s not on some gay shit either; we always had girls and would even share them sometimes, only dude thatâ??s ever been in the room doing a girl while I was doing another girl in the same room.


Anyways we got called out to Persian Gulf on a long ass deployment. Cas never really fit with the middle chain of command, as he worked hard and would call them on their lazy bullshit when they didnâ??t. He was protected by our Division Officer because he liked the results. I also kept him out of trouble and inline when I was around. The deployment lasted 10 months and I was called away from the ship often due to my prior field of work. I got another call to go in country Iraq and l stayed in Iraq for about a month, when I returned to the ship Cas had lost a rank and had been put on shit duty grinding decks and cleaning the bilges. I found that while the Division Officer was away on leave they wrote him up on disrespect and got it sent through. People were bored and frustrated due to an extension of our deployment and took it out on the easiest target. I talked to Cas who was like fuck it; no matter what I do Iâ??ll still be a criminal so why try. I got him into working out and swimming and put the goal of switching over to a better branch of the navy, he was dedicated got in great shape and didnâ??t get into trouble. We made it home from the deployment and life seemed good, the ship was given a two week vacation, so me, Cas and couple of others got stoned as fuck for a few days with some pot we picked up in Thailand on the way back. Talk about no tolerance we were so fucking blitzed and running around Japan like madmen it was one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life. Cas also made back his rank and was doing so well the Divo put him in for an early promotion.

Then two bad things happened at once, a friend and shipmate of ours died during a training operation, and it was in a way that the one of the senior officers should have hung for it, and this was up close and personal deal, Cas was a few feet away while I was giving CPR to the dude and it affected Cas pretty bad, especially the fact the command was trying to just say it was an accident and let the Cmdr get off scott free ( Testified against this guy but never heard anything from it). At the same time a buddy of Cas was going to get busted and getting ready to get a Dishonorable. The guy and Cas had know each other for a long time and had made a promise that if one of them decided to leave the other would go with them no matter what. The guy called in the promise and even though Cas was on the way up he honored his word (maybe and Italian thing?) I got home from work and All his shit was packed up he told me he was heading back to America with this other guy and 5 minutes later he threw his shit on his back and left. I gave him a nights lead then reported him UA to the ship MPâ??s. They were all over me and thought I helped him and threatened me with loss of rank and brig time if I didnâ??t tell them where he was. Luckily I had done a lot of dicey shit for the command, and after a quick word with the Captain, weâ??re I assured him I didnâ??t help Cas get away he took care of the MPâ??s for me and I wasnâ??t harassed any more. The found his flight information and it showed that his flight went to Hong Kong they assumed that he was defecting (both guys had SCI/TS security clearances). It was just a layover to their flight to San Fran though. He wrote an email to our Divo absolving me of anything and saying that the Division had been good to him but this was something he had to do.

I got out of the navy 4 months later and after spending some time with my family, I looked Cas up and decided to head up to Jersey to visit him. Since he was AWOL he couldnâ??t get a decent job, his father got him to start dealing a very bad substance to make money. The day I arrived, I knocked on the door (he was living with dad) His dad answered and pulled me in quick. It turned out they had a issue with the local cops because they were doing a deal to buy a bunch of e pills from a dirty cop who during the deal doubled the price per pill, when Cas and his cousin refused, the cop changed scripts and told them they were under arrest, well they were like fuck that and Casâ??s cousin beat the cop senseless and took his gun radio drugs and they bolted. Cas described this to me like it all happened in slo mo and he was still in shock. The local cops drove by his dadâ??s house and dropped a bag of bullets at his doorstep. Cas wanted to get out of town before some big shit popped of, he asked if he could chill down with me (I lived 500 mi. away) Against my better judgment I agreed. His asshole dad made Cas due another round of drop offs before letting him go. Cas stayed with me for a week but ran out of money and went back to NJ, got arrested for possession and his dad wouldnâ??t even spring for decent lawyer, they found out about the navy while he was in and since then he disappeared and I havenâ??t heard from him since.

Sometimes you try to outgrow your past and strive for better but the past catches up like a nightmare and eats you alive. Thatâ??s it for Cas my friend and ship mate.

Damn I wanted this to go up to the main page, I guess this subforum doesn't post in the main splash. oah well

fuck dude for real that is some deep sheit:wtf:

thats like some of that conspiracy sheit you see in the movies

(like the one with willsmith cant remeber the name :jointsmile:) im

sorry to hear you havent heard from your friend but jeez dude you

live one hell of a life:thumbsup:

DAMN SOUNDS LIKE A HELL OF A TIME

but what was the bag of bullets about?

probably a threat or something? sounds pretty gangster if you ask me:pimp:

Yeah, I think it was a threat, the bag of bullets. The cop they beat was in the hospital ICU, I think his dirty buddies were wanting to either start something or were trying so send a message about not outing them. Man the whole was crazy and I'm pretty much an up and up citizen, I didn't dig being around all the crime shit in real life, I got to much good going for me and life is too easy to fuck up my freedom or catch a bullet.

sounds like some dickhead cops... dirty cop deserved a good beating... good luck hope your friend is ok

That is an incredible story, defintely top5 I've ever read on cannabis.com and perhaps even online.

You're a good guy. (Y)

I'm almost speechless, that was a great story.

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Originally Posted by TryptamineScape

I'm almost speechless, that was a great story.

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Thanks man, its been on my mind for awhile and its good to get it out. I sometimes feel like no matter what you do you are bound by the life you come from, I'm lucky I have parents that love me and that I could trust. Its funny while we were in he would always talk about how much he hated his old man, and the things he did and the way he treated his mother, but in the end he turned out just like his dad despite all. I don't feel much sympathy for him, but its sad all the same.

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Originally Posted by ncnavguy

Thanks man, its been on my mind for awhile and its good to get it out. I sometimes feel like no matter what you do you are bound by the life you come from, I'm lucky I have parents that love me and that I could trust.

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I agree...100%...my parents did all they could for me.

your a seal