Posted on Jul 11, 2015
What is the best prank you have pulled on a new butter bar?
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All in fun 2LT's. We've all been new somewhere at sometime.
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One of the main initiations that I and other NCOs always conducted with brand new, fresh-faced, 2LTs that we were "entrusted with", always occurred during our (back then) Tank Table XII, Platoon Gunnery. I would always be the ring leader, lol, and would by "hook or by crook" acquire the 2LTs PC prior to our last night run; I would remove the pin on or sew-on rank, for later presentation, and during our last engagement firing the main gun, the pc would be loaded on the end of the main gun round and fired down range. Later, after we had conducted our AAR and given our score and then having the traditional steak and eggs meal, I would lead a progression of the platoon members to the 2LTs bunk area, and on top of my "field pillow" (similar size to the pillow used in a wedding for the ring bearer), we would present to the 2LT his rank and welcome him into the Armor brotherhood lol. Of course for the rest of the time until we maneuvered back to the rear, young 2LT always had to wear his Kevlar/ACH unless the CO or one of his peers got him a new pc!!!
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Sent him looking for the keys to the humvee in 29 palms (took everything I had to keep a straight face)
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I've come to appreciate the standard initiation of jokes as an LT. Most of the time, it's about seeing where your limits are and how much you can take. Someone is testing you, even if in the most jovial manner. I, myself, find there's a potential platonic bond to be made there.
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I never had anything pulled on me when I was a 2Lt, probably because I was a 31-year old former E-6.
I had one colleague who was in our maintenance hangar office one night by herself. A couple of NCO's thought they would scare her and started beating on the walls next to the office. She came out with her .38 drawn. They didn't mess with her again.
I had one colleague who was in our maintenance hangar office one night by herself. A couple of NCO's thought they would scare her and started beating on the walls next to the office. She came out with her .38 drawn. They didn't mess with her again.
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I was a 42 y/o 1LT. HHC Commander and one of our senior NCOs replaced the rank on my PC and field jacket with LTC rank. I didn't notice it until I was at the PX for lunch and all theses CPTs and MAJs were saluting me. Fortunately I was old enough and looked the part so was able to pull it off without getting questioned.
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SPC Michelle Nelson - Thompson
Did that to many WO's! With their sham dots. I'd completely forgotten that one :'D
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SPC Roberto Figueroa
I used to do that to my 2LT in Korea. I'd say, "LT, your rank is upside down." I would then remove the velcro strip from his GoreTex jacket and turn it "right side up". He gave me this "deer in the headlight" look, but I assured him that was the correct position. "See how this is sewn more higher than this side?"
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GySgt Patrick Metcalf
Too many times we would see a new Lot with only the National Defense ribbon, and of course we would tell him he was wearing it upside down. One wouldn't believe how many of them would take it off and turn it over.
Oh, the idiotic things we think of doing when we have time on our hands.
Oh, the idiotic things we think of doing when we have time on our hands.
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Cpl Rc Layne
SPC Roberto Figueroa quarter on the ground under the point of the etool, blindfold them, replace the quarter with their cover and tell them go. It's hilarious.
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That's true to a point but most of the ones I dealt with after the playing understand the fun because the respect was always there. We maintained our professional character
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SSG (Join to see) B Company's commander was a nuisance to the troops. Whenever they had a little beer party going in the summer at NTC, they would bury one can in the warm sand for the captain if he happened by!
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Let's not forget things like "Mail Buoy" watch, searching for "relative bearing grease" etc... While Academy and ROTC officers will have learned these already, OCS/OIS Ensigns don't know about it...
SGT Rick Ash
We used to ask our 2LT if he would do us a favor when he "went down the hill" to bring us back a much needed vacuum tube for one of the repair vans. We always handed him a piece of paper with the tube part number. E v e n t u a l l y it would dawn on him, usually when the Supply Sergeant would hand the note back and say "Out of Stock But I know I saw one around here somewhere". The PN was ID 10T
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As an FA instructor in the mid 1980's, I would have the academy Butter Butters go from Bay to Bay asking for elbow grease to lube the self propel howitzers. Don't know why but they were the easiest.
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