Happy April Fools Day!

2015-04-01T11:25:17-04:00

Here are some of our favorite pranks - perfect for all of you still looking to pull a fast one on someone today! Has anyone ever pulled any of these pranks on you? Do you have any big tricks planned for today?

Response by MSgt Michael Durkee made Apr 1 at 2015 11:28 AM

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As an Air Force Material Management guy that took expedite orders for aircraft...the whole ordering Flight Line and Jet Wash was a regular occurrence on the new folks. :)

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Apr 1 at 2015 11:46 AM

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On Camp Pendleton, the buildings (used to be) are arranged by Area and Order they were built, as opposed to traditional # Street Name format that most civilians are used to.

So a building in Camp Horno (Area 53) would be 53XXX. What's bad is that buildings were build in sort of a weird layout. So the HQ buildings would be 530001-5, whereas the chowhall was 530010, the Gym (an old chowhall) was x11, and the barracks had sequentially higher numbers. But Barracks were on their 5-6th "refresh" by the time I got there, so, there were "holes" in the numbering, and two buildings sitting next to each other would have sequential numbers.

If you wanted to screw around with a boot, you'd tell him to go to a specific building. Hopefully one that didn't exist anymore, and check in with Sgt 'Ski (intentionally leaving off the first part of the last name).

Response by SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 1 at 2015 1:58 PM

2015-04-01T13:58:18-04:00

While I was stationed at Fort Gordon, Ga last year for training, the army guys and marines were always pulling pranks on each other. My favorite was, early one morning we flipped everything in the marine smoke pit upside down, tables, benches, trash cans, the whole lot. The next morning, we woke up on a Saturday, and our smoke pit was nowhere to be found. We located it later that morning, moved about a half mile away, on the far side of the PT field. Set up stone for stone exactly as it was on our grounds. What made it even funnier, was that we had cadre from a different unit on duty that day, and he kept yelling at us when we tried moving it back "that is NOT where your smoke pit is supposed to be!!"

Response by Capt Brandon Charters made Apr 1 at 2015 2:25 PM

2015-04-01T14:25:55-04:00

Last really good prank I remember was in a full flight room. We gave the following message to a fellow LT: "Hey man, Capt Dees just called and he sounded really upset about something...you better call him back" *handed over phone number*

Response by PO1 Stephen Caldonetti made Apr 1 at 2015 3:04 PM

2015-04-01T15:04:28-04:00

At my first duty station I was sent to fetch a "left handed" hammer. It took me 3 hours to find something that never existed. I had a feeling that it was a prank, but I put out a big effort in trying to secure one. Every division I went to looked at me with a devious smile because they knew the drill.