+1 on the wild conversations. Especially when you're sitting on post with someone. We rotate through with squads in country, so, you have a possibility of being on post with 10 different guys, (Squad leader acts as Segeant of the Guard, doesn't sit a perimeter post.) After a few months of that, you're going to wind up on post with the same guy, a lot. At four hours a piece, twice a day, you're spending 56 hours a week on post. So, even if you stood with a different guy each time, thats averaging 5.6 hours on post a week with one guy. IF you stand with a different guy every time. And all you have to do to keep from dying of boredom is talk. Maybe you talk about different people you'd like to nail, maybe different people you'd like to beat up, whatever. Eventually, you wind up talking politics, religion, science, philosophy, all sorts of stuff. And some of the smartest men I've ever met were fellow grunts I was sitting on post with. Saying grunts are dumb, is far from the truth. We have the idiots too, but we also have some people that are just incredibly intelligent.
Also, the Charms thing, however it got started, the superstition is that if someone eats Charms, it rains. It got to the point NO one would eat Charms(Which are like square life savers,) and they eventually took them out of the MRE's.
And about MRE Toilet Paper....my old First Sergeant used to give a class to all the new guys about how to use MRE Tp. You poke a hole in the middle, stick your finger through it, (Whichever finger you don't use for putting in/removing your chewing tobacco with,) scrape your ass with the finger, and then pull the Toilet Paper off, wiping your finger in the process.
No one does it, I want to assure you, it was just a funny class to reiterate how badly MRE toilet paper sucks. The entire amount you get in one MRE is sufficent for one wipe, if you're careful. That's why the Baby Wipes everyone sends aren't used just for cleaning your body.