I am writing this for my husband who is deployed right now
and can not write it himself. My husband is not at all a
believer in ghosts, but he swears that what he saw was
real.
My husband and I are stationed at a certain Army Base in
the Mid-West. Not long after we got here, he was put on
Guard Duty where he and 6 other soldiers from his platoon
guard an entrance to the post and check the ID's of whoever
enters.
He and the other soldiers got the misfortune of
guarding the least frequently used entrance from 9pm to
4am. The entrance is mostly used for deliveries and he was
lucky if he saw 5 cars a night. Because of this, he and the
other soldiers did mock Recon missions since the area they
were in was mostly wide open fields and wooded in some
places.
It was on one of those nights that this sighting occured.
According to my husband they had just finished one of their
play missions and the Sgt. in charge of them was doing a
head count to make sure all the soldiers were within sight
of him. There were 3 soldiers standing with the Sgt.
looking out into the field, (my husband being one of them),
and there should have been only 3 standing in the field
making a total of 7 soldiers. My husband, the Sgt., and the
2 other soldiers looking into the field all swear they saw
4 soldiers standing there. The 3 soldiers in the field did
not see the "extra" soldier. My husband and other 3
soldiers that did see the mysterious "8th" soldier say that
he was dressed in fatigues and full combat gear that was
different from their own. They say it looked similar to the
combat gear soldiers wore in the 60's or 70's. My husband
said that they stood there looking at the ghostly soldier
for a good 15 seconds before it just disapeared. Of course,
they were all very spooked by this experience and spent the
rest of their extra time during Guard Duty doing Physical
Training. None of them wanted to go back out into that
field at night ever again!
The base we are stationed at is over 100 years old and
there are a lot of stories of ghost sightings all over the
base.
Contact me here: armywife242003@yahoo.com
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