Soldier with paper cuts from grid squares now has burns from exhaust samples
FORT STEWART, Ga. — Just three weeks after recovering from severe paper cuts, Pfc. Andrew Varneke has been admitted to Winn Army Hospital to treat multiple burns suffered while gathering exhaust samples.
Pfc. Varneke joined the Army in early 2020 and has fallen victim to multiple pranks from other junior enlisted soldiers. "I don't know why they think it's so funny, but they just keep telling me to go do things that end up in me hurting myself somehow." said Varneke. "My hands are really starting to take a beating.”
“First it was because of all the grid squares I was trying to cut out from the map I found, because I couldn't find them anywhere I was told to look," he said. "Then everyone made fun of me when I went to sick call, and my first day back to work, they told me to go to the weather tower and find ‘Major Storm,’ which didn't end well, either." said Varneke.
Soldiers often will tell new soldiers to go find random items—such as blinker fluid for HMMWVs, chem light batteries, grid …
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