Welcome to The Fob Files

We’re the ones who never made the unit’s Instagram page.

The ones who deployed but never got a coin.

The ones who lived in CHUs, ran the TOC, worked the aid station, and kept the smoke pit alive.

TheFOBfiles is run by current and former soldiers — not influencers, not spokespeople. Just people who saw what really goes on behind the briefings

Deployment stories. Barracks legends. Essays that actually say something.

We post:

FOBBIT FILES – Anonymous stories from soldiers, funny, dumb, or just cursed
SMOKE PIT BRIEFING – Takes on military policy, culture, and the wars we never quite finish
FROM INSIDE THE WIRE – Memes, rumors, and day-to-day military life

This isn’t sanitized.

Deployment stories. Barracks legends. Essays that actually say something.

We post:

FOBBIT FILES – Anonymous stories from soldiers, funny, dumb, or just cursed
SMOKE PIT BRIEFING – Takes on military policy, culture, and the wars we never quite finish
FROM INSIDE THE WIRE – Memes, rumors, and day-to-day military life

This isn’t sanitized. It’s the truth as it was lived. Sometimes funny. Sometimes brutal. Always real.

Because the Army only tells one kind of story — and it’s usually about the guy with the perfect PT score and a camera crew.

That’s not what most of us lived.

This is for the rest of us. The fobbits. The lifers. The short-timers. The medics. The ones who got out and the ones still in.

If you’ve got a story, submit it.
If you just want to read what it was really like — you’re in the right place.