Posted on Oct 24, 2014
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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!
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A1C Aircrew Flight Equipment Apprentice
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One of my tech school instructors sent a few airmen to find him a BA1100NS parachute.

He followed up with telling us about the time he was sent for K9P and brought some back(it was microwaved Mountain Dew).
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CMSgt Robert Gates
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How about getting a yard of flightline and a bucket of prop wash.
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SCPO Chip Hawkins
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Us wingnuts were always told by the snipes to get a light bulb repair kit.. :)
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PO1 Cryptologic Technician (Maintenance)
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On the ship, we had a guy completely fly up in a panic to the bridge yelling about not having retracted the mast before entering a foreign port.

We had another one scrambling to route a request chit to "Routine Blow of the Eng Valve" (W-1R for you 3M types) before returning to port, with approvals all the way up to the Eng, who disapproved it under the reason of "Sorry, but you're not my type."

Another guy we had fun with was having him stand watch at the Pit Sword as we lowered it on an underway time, with a nerf sword to fend it back down with if it should show up.

And lastly, as a prank, someone started playing the Party Boy theme song from Jackass on the 1MC during a fresh water wash down. The end result of people really getting into it got the song banned so hard that 8 years later I'm still afraid to listen to it.

...........not enough brain bleach in the world to remove THAT memory....
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SN E Robinson
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Imagine being sent to an admirals cabin to report that the ship was out of prop wash and waterline after spending two days going from department to department on an aircraft carrier. It was the CAG that sent me to him. Thank God we made shell back on my first cruise.
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SrA Michael McFadden
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Same place as a roll of 10 yards flight line I assume.
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SCPO Bryan Knapp
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We had caught some Sea Bats and announced over the 1MC to come see them on the main deck. When they stuck their head in the box to see (so they didn't escape) they got a kick in the pants and laughed at pretty good.
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SSgt Michael Dillson
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Long ago, we used to send out classified reports though the teletypes on different colored tapes. Since we obviously could not let classified chad fall into enemy hands, the newbs had to sort the chad can to get all the red ones out.
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SSG Steven Nosack
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My first unit in Germany, we did the standard armor plating soft spot check. After two hours, a new Private would have an entire M1A1 circled with small chalk marks, and then we would tell him that we didn't have time to replace the soft spots and that he needed to wash the tank. Others were the left handed squeegee sharpener to ensure that the wiper blades on the HMMWV would clean the window equally. Summer and winter road wheels for the tanks. Spring air for the shocks on the wheeled vehicles.

We made up a maintenance alert for the replacement of Kanuter Valves on all M1A1 and M113 FOV. These were made to look very official. We did the DA maintenance alert, Division, Bde and Bn alerts. The breakdown on the part was a blown up diagram of a disassembled Skillcraft pen. We gave all of this to a new Private and sent him to S-4 to find the part. Somehow it made it to 8th ID Commander, and he flew down to Mannheim to find the SOB that was wasting Division time with this nonsense. Our BMO told us to leave ASAP, and not to return until the morning. Everyone in the unit figured out who did it, but no one could find us. We went downtown Mannheim and had a few beers and worried about our stripes.
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PO2 Danny Bott
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I was asked in my EWAS board what is the pepsi of a jet tire. I thought and thought and finally said I don't know the person that asked said you owe me a pepsi. It was funny. I sat on the Top Side PO qualification boards and all the rest to but one question I always liked to ask was how many pens are you allowed top side all of them would get it wrong. of course it gets around after awhile because they all talk to each other so they know that answer before they come in.
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SFC James Verdejo
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