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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Had an 2LT look for soft spots in his tracks armor, with a ball peen hammer.
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At the m-4 range with zero on one range and qual on one about 3 miles away sending a private to find the brass magnet to police all the shell casing. "Oh, it's not here, must be at the other range. Run over there and get it from the NCOIC."
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The company I work for sells both metal and plastic clips for cars. We send the new guy after a plastic magnet the first time they spill some plastic clips. The gags keep rolling even in the civvie world!
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I'd heard most all of these. As a young SGT I sent my new pvt after a ST one, he returned from supply asking if I wanted a red or blue one.
The other old as hell one was sending the pvt after a TR double EE. So much fun.
Oh just remembered another, the early Hummves, would retain water in the turn signal housings, well that water had to be refilled from time to time.
The other old as hell one was sending the pvt after a TR double EE. So much fun.
Oh just remembered another, the early Hummves, would retain water in the turn signal housings, well that water had to be refilled from time to time.
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SFC Jonathan Surprise
Aww Man! One of my first supervisors sent me out to look for the DZ keys, Riser Grease, and 18 inch canopy release assemblies.
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Well it has been a few years for this old signal soldier, but I remember a few. Hopefully these will raise an eyebrow or two.
1 - Not sure if they are still the same, but old D-sized batteries were designated as BA-1100. It was always fun to send the new guys after B-A-1-1-0-0-N (s).
2 - Old line of sight microwave rigs had a voice box (or bitch box as we used to call it) that was used to help sight in the shots before they were dialed in. They were properly called the "order wire". Always entertaining to see a young soldier chasing all over the FTX site looking for a roll of order wire.
3 - I think I saw this one here already, but with Army acronyms come lots of opportunities. To send someone looking for T-R-double E (s) was always interesting!
1 - Not sure if they are still the same, but old D-sized batteries were designated as BA-1100. It was always fun to send the new guys after B-A-1-1-0-0-N (s).
2 - Old line of sight microwave rigs had a voice box (or bitch box as we used to call it) that was used to help sight in the shots before they were dialed in. They were properly called the "order wire". Always entertaining to see a young soldier chasing all over the FTX site looking for a roll of order wire.
3 - I think I saw this one here already, but with Army acronyms come lots of opportunities. To send someone looking for T-R-double E (s) was always interesting!
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Sending the new radio operators out to find some gun line, a BA1100N AND some S-T RINGS.
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Same place you can find keys to the impact zone and a box of grid squares
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Going through the Strait of Messina they had a young sailor dress up in full rubber gear with a wooden pole stand on the signal deck of the Theoeore Roosevelt CVN-71 in case the power lines going to Sicily were drooping too much.
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