Posted on Apr 1, 2021
What’s the best prank in uniform you've seen? Comment below!
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When I first reported on board my ship it was the tradition to send the new guy out to get some fictitious item. I was sent out to get some "Bulkhead Remover". Little did my shipmates know but that I was wise to these sorts of things, but I dutifully went in search of said item. I went to a friend in the Ordinance Department and told him what I had been sent for and asked if he could help me out. We then took a 10 pound practice bomb, painted it OD with a yellow stripe around the nose, put an inert fuse in it and painted Mk 1 Bulkhead Remover on the side of it. I returned to the shop with the requested "Bulkhead Remover" in hand and gave it to PO1 that sent me out for it. Of course everyone freaked out and EOD got called in. They had a great laugh over the whole thing and put my "Bulkhead Remover" on display in their shop. Need less to say I was never again sent for any fictitious item.
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PO3 Pamala McBrayer
Sound Powered Telephone Batteries.
Excellent excuse to disappear for several hours and go take a nap
Excellent excuse to disappear for several hours and go take a nap
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PO3 Thomas Lawrence
I was standing Chief Machinery Operator watch in one of the engine rooms of the Nimitz when one of the new sailors to the division came up to me and was shaking a ring of keys while attempting to talk to me, it was very loud down in the engine room when steaming. I knew he was trying to talk to me because I could see his lips moving First thing that I said was that he had to yell to me because I could not hear him over the noise. When he finally got out what he wanted to say it was that someone back in berthing sent him down to the engine room to give the CMO the keys to the steam chest. He was one of the youngest looking sailors that I had seen in my few years in the Navy. People used to ask him if his mother knew where he was. He looked about12 to me. I tried to find out who sent him down so I could tell to let me know when they were sending someone down for a prank.
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MSgt Donald Graves
One day there were six of us in the flightline van. The expediter stopped at an aircraft and looked at a new guy and asked him if he would get the keys out of the cockpit. The new just looked at him because he knew what was going on. The big surprise was when a SSgt, who had been working in the flight shack a few weeks, said, "I'll get them." He was all the way up the ladder when he figured it out. The loud laughter coming from inside the van may have given it away.
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We had a nurse Capt that was always pranking everyone. His favorite device was KY Jelly. In your hat, the phone, the toilet seat. On his last day prior to PCS ING, two of the med techs went out to his pickup, slimed the door handles, the seat and the steering wheel. As he left the building most of the nursing staff and med techs were watching from the windows. It is a shame we didn't have a Mike down there. First he got his hands into the KY on the door handles, no sweat, wiped off with a handkerchief. The fun part was watching him slide across the seat and attempting to grab the slimed steering wheel. Priceless payback!
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Maj Robert Thornton
Cpl Floyd Gilreath for a good gag, nothing of a noxious nature should be involved.
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Brig Gen (Join to see)
Problem with KY jelly is it dries out. Vaseline, or Bacitracin ointment, doesn't. Just sayin' . . .
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Sgt Davud Hepner
It could have been worse. We used Never-Seez. I still have a brush top can of Nuclear Grade Never-Seez in my garage.
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In the '90s, until '96 IIRC, the USAF enlisted had velcro/rank name patches on our BDUs. Lots got turned upside down or swapped to different uniforms. I got called out by my CC for wearing a MSgt patch from my boss as an Amn/E-2 in the DFAC.
I pulled lots of pranks with zip ties. Best prank I pulled was on my boss. We were slow at work. His shirt had the sleeves rolled and was hanging on the back of his chair. My trainer and I put a pair of zip ties in his sleeves. We had to guess at the size as he was a wiry guy but had Popeye forearms. One of his habits when putting his top on was to put a hand in each opening and sort of punch straight out. As I said, we were slow. Early afternoon he cuts everyone but the house mouse (my roomate) out for an early weekend. COB he grabs his shirt, puts his hands in and pushes out. He got about half way. The zip ties stuck tight on his forearms. He couldn't get his arms in amd he couldn't get them out. My roommate is rolling watching him struggle with his arms stuck. Boss was pissed. Come Monday morning everyone knows what happened. Boss is still pissed so in front of the formation calls me out, tells me I'm not allowed to touch a zip tie without permission, and tells the flight to watch out for me to which they all just start laughing which pisses him off more.
I've also taken boots, filled them with water and put them in the freezer. Soaked lots of shirts and hats and froze them as well. That cured the "put your stuff in your locker where it belongs" issues we had.
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Bogie
I pulled lots of pranks with zip ties. Best prank I pulled was on my boss. We were slow at work. His shirt had the sleeves rolled and was hanging on the back of his chair. My trainer and I put a pair of zip ties in his sleeves. We had to guess at the size as he was a wiry guy but had Popeye forearms. One of his habits when putting his top on was to put a hand in each opening and sort of punch straight out. As I said, we were slow. Early afternoon he cuts everyone but the house mouse (my roomate) out for an early weekend. COB he grabs his shirt, puts his hands in and pushes out. He got about half way. The zip ties stuck tight on his forearms. He couldn't get his arms in amd he couldn't get them out. My roommate is rolling watching him struggle with his arms stuck. Boss was pissed. Come Monday morning everyone knows what happened. Boss is still pissed so in front of the formation calls me out, tells me I'm not allowed to touch a zip tie without permission, and tells the flight to watch out for me to which they all just start laughing which pisses him off more.
I've also taken boots, filled them with water and put them in the freezer. Soaked lots of shirts and hats and froze them as well. That cured the "put your stuff in your locker where it belongs" issues we had.
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Bogie
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CPO James Barnhart
Most Navy ships used to be powered by steam turbines. If a new E-2 was assigned to an engine room, often he was sent on the first day to get a bucket of steam from the fireroom, (where the boilers were). Most guys didn't fall for that, but one did.
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SSgt Dennis Watkins
in the USAF we had cold weather liners in our Field Jackets and some people would rolll up a sleeve and zip tie a liner sleeve so when you went to put on your field jacket one arm would get stuck you never knew when your jacket would be rigged
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