Posted on Oct 24, 2014
Anybody know where I can find a bucket of steam and bottle of bulkhead remover?
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Have you ever found yourself on mail buoy watch?
Ever been handed a kapok life vest and broom and told to fend off any monkeys that try to board during a Suez Canal transit?
How about being sent after the elusive ID10T that the chief needs right away?
I'd like to hear some of the other service gags run on the new guy. Let's hear em please!
Ever been handed a kapok life vest and broom and told to fend off any monkeys that try to board during a Suez Canal transit?
How about being sent after the elusive ID10T that the chief needs right away?
I'd like to hear some of the other service gags run on the new guy. Let's hear em please!
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AOPA Exhaust Sample
Tube of Squelch Grease
Spool of Flight Line
Bucket of Rotor Wash
Echo Check of a new engine (where the newbie screams "Echo" into the exhaust of a newly installed engine while we sit in the cockpit to see if we can hear it)
Pitot Tube Check (OH-58D(I)... for non-aviation it is a shaft of metal about waist high and roughly 8" in length) blow into the Pitot tube to check if it is working
ID10T forms
ones that have backfired:
Box of Grid Squares: got maps from supply and found a small cardboard box and a pair of scissors, proceeded to generate a box of grid squares
Tube of Squelch Grease
Spool of Flight Line
Bucket of Rotor Wash
Echo Check of a new engine (where the newbie screams "Echo" into the exhaust of a newly installed engine while we sit in the cockpit to see if we can hear it)
Pitot Tube Check (OH-58D(I)... for non-aviation it is a shaft of metal about waist high and roughly 8" in length) blow into the Pitot tube to check if it is working
ID10T forms
ones that have backfired:
Box of Grid Squares: got maps from supply and found a small cardboard box and a pair of scissors, proceeded to generate a box of grid squares
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Hand the FNG (fuckin; new guy) a relief tube and tell them to give a radio check. If they don't respond, yell into it. Louder, still can't hear you...
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SP5 Michael Rathbun
Would be interesting to discover why. Perhaps someone who fell for all or nearly all of the pranks described herein.
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Those of us who were studying the MIL-STD-196 of the day were still trying to come up with a good use for the AN/ABB-42bT when all of us eventually DEROSed.
Back then, the middle "B" did not stand for "COMSEC", so the concept of having someone trying to find or requisition the Piloted Aircraft Pigeon Bombing apparatus model 42, rev 'b', (Training) was really appealing, but the OpPlan execution never happened.
It was the Nixon Draw-down, so we ran out of shavetails, I guess.
Back then, the middle "B" did not stand for "COMSEC", so the concept of having someone trying to find or requisition the Piloted Aircraft Pigeon Bombing apparatus model 42, rev 'b', (Training) was really appealing, but the OpPlan execution never happened.
It was the Nixon Draw-down, so we ran out of shavetails, I guess.
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I had one trooper sent for 100 yards of flight line, said he found it next to a box of Grid Squares, a barrel of Rotor Wash, the Chem light Batteries and an ASH Receiver. Sent him to see First Sergeant to locate an ID10T, to help sling load a B1RD. Can't leave out the Jesus Nut, always had to make sure that was tight, and safety wired
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My first tour I was an avionics tech, saw a guy get sent all over base for a power amplifier and some Fallopian tubes. It was so bad that a girl had mercy on him and finally told him.
As a crewman a great prank was to wait until passengers inevitably wanted to put on a gunner's belt and sit in the door of the helicopter. So, after they got nice and comfortable, yell that you're moving their anchor point to a new spot and not to move. (Never actually unhook them) Show them the loose end of one of the spare belts, and simultaneously yell "Sir, now!" over the ICS. The pilot then banks the helicopter, and the poor guy in the door flails wildly trying to grab something. (Not realizing they were still attached)
I've also heard of the "go get a pad-eye remover" joke backfiring. A new kids at a unit I was in disappeared after meeting sent for one of those, and apparently they exist. A few hours later he came back with a civilian from crane and rigging, with a giant crane setup for lifting entire concrete pads. Not a pretty situation.
There are others, of course.
As a crewman a great prank was to wait until passengers inevitably wanted to put on a gunner's belt and sit in the door of the helicopter. So, after they got nice and comfortable, yell that you're moving their anchor point to a new spot and not to move. (Never actually unhook them) Show them the loose end of one of the spare belts, and simultaneously yell "Sir, now!" over the ICS. The pilot then banks the helicopter, and the poor guy in the door flails wildly trying to grab something. (Not realizing they were still attached)
I've also heard of the "go get a pad-eye remover" joke backfiring. A new kids at a unit I was in disappeared after meeting sent for one of those, and apparently they exist. A few hours later he came back with a civilian from crane and rigging, with a giant crane setup for lifting entire concrete pads. Not a pretty situation.
There are others, of course.
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We had a pilot shut off the APU in flight and dump the collective. Many bricks were shat that day.
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PO1 John Pokrzywa
PO2 (Join to see) That's awesome. Flying gives people a cruel sense of humor... a friend once had a bunch of Marines pumping like mad men on the APU accumulator manual pump, after he "tired out". Every time they slowed down, the pilots would let the helicopter drop down closer to the ocean.... ("Help him Devil Dogs! Can't you see what's happening!? ")
They were high fiving each other when they got to the ship, but something tells me it's good he wasn't staying, they'd have figured it out pretty quick...
They were high fiving each other when they got to the ship, but something tells me it's good he wasn't staying, they'd have figured it out pretty quick...
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Half our detachment was on that flight too. I've never seen a Chief go so white. I saw our crewman tightening his gunners belt and smiling and got a feeling something was up. Best roller coaster I've ever been on.
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I sent a couple new airmen after a CGU-11 once. I was simply amazed that they couldn't find one on a ship at port.
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SSgt Chris Morgan
Had a guy looking desperately in benchstock for frequency grease to clear up static.
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SFC William Dinwiddie
how about a spray can of radio squelch another goden army oldie for when you cannot hear the radio
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