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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I’ve had a brand new butter bar working a ball ping hammer looking for soft spots in the armor of an M1A1. He was fresh out of ROTC and I thought Top was going to smoke me hard until he couldn’t contain his own laughter.
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CW4 Craig Urban
this one butter bar did make CPT and worked for me when I was a GS 12. I fried him on his OER
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SPC Brian Roberts
The BIG question is did he FIND any? LOL! SEARCHING for them is ONE thing - FINDING them another level of ‘newbie’ altogether! HA!
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1LT William Clardy
Probably not, SPC Brian Roberts. It takes an experienced ear to pick out that slight difference in sound caused by a defective layer of ████████████. That's why a good NCO will watch over the new officer, so he can point out when he tapped right past a spot.
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Once upon a time, at a border-patrol camp far away, some NCOs conspired to expropriate the camp OIC's BDU cap. The first time he went looking for his missing cap, the lieutenant found that it had somehow been run up the flag pole. The second time, the camp cooks got into the act, presenting the lieutenant with a dessert they had created in his honor: the Butterbar Ice Cream Special, consisting of a scoop of ice cream served in an upside-down BDU cap which had been soaked and then frozen to preserve its shape...
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1LT William Clardy
I wouldn't know -- l was off running a border trace when the LT got served, although I have a vague recollection of him gleefully boasting that he was able to eat the ice cream before the cap thawed enough to absorb any, CPT Pedro Meza .
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SPC Todd Rhoades
That's what I'm talking about. I loved that I didn't just respect the rank, but rather the men that wore it. They always got even, sometimes it was a "suck" detail, but the grin on their faces as it was handed to you, made the "suck" less, you knew how you had earned it and were already planning how to earn the next one. We were all brothers, even the CO.
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For those of you not familiar with it, check out Grunt Style on Youtube, and in particular 2LT Dick:
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CPL Mark Kirkpatrick
I have no idea how long I fell down that rabbit hole after Miller recommended Grunt Style.
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I think we all know that every 2LT is not the same. Some are prior service, some went to West Point...some went to one of the Country's 6 Senior Military Colleges where they were part of a Corps of Cadets, wore uniforms every day of the week, lived in barracks, observed reveille and retreat daily, and were constantly being trained by both active and retired NCO's and Officer's. Everyone comes from a different background, and I think all 2LT's get unfairly grouped into a category. Just a friendly observation :) But to the point of MOS knowledge and true active duty "experience", yes 2LT's are almost always lacking and need strong NCO's to show them what right looks like
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CPT Pedro Meza
Yes, but the prior service 2LT's are always in on the joke and never reveal the joke.
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ENS Jeremy Medlen - I had something similar in the ROTC program the first time one of the Cadre saw me in dress greens.
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SGT Craig Northacker
Informing them they were to use the forward officer's door for exiting C-130's during jumps.
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SPC James Jackson
But it's all about being treated equal... anything else is just a missed opportunity.
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Wow, let's see ok LT, go and find a box of Map Grids to give to the CO.
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SSG Robert Perrotto
1stSgt (Join to see) - nah - that one we saved for the new privates, the box of grid squares or chem light batteries was for the new LT's - actually had a 1SG, and CSM play along a few times, really because we never really over did the prank. Good times
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LTC (Join to see)
when I was a brand new 2LT they tried to get me with the old box of grid squares prank. I told them to give me a few minutes and then came back with a box of these. Last time they every tried to prank me....
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CPT William Jones
I went on active duty nov 1966 the one thing in the battalion armored combat engineers was 2lt nearly every officer position was filled with one except 1 or 2 cpt major xo and ltc for co. we had one 2lt no one liked. went into s4 and wanted a field desk. They found him one and put it on hand receipt and a m60 tank he did his usual and pitched his copy in trash on way out the door. the only copy with no tank on it. three days later he brought desk back but no tank of course he said he didn't get a tank but s4 had paper that said he did. shorten story report of survey done and found him liable and owed for it.. best kept secret in 1AD. Had big division party at Officers club that weekend.the CG called him front and center. Told him he just got the report for his signature late Friday.let the lt sweat about 5 minutes then said April Fool and handed him the report a match and metal trash can. lesson learned hold onto all hand receipts. he never pitched another
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I was running a range and had two as the last to fire on the range. I told them they had to police their brass before they could leave the range and as they picked up their brass I walked behind them dropping brass and then pointing out to them the brass they had failed to pick up making them go back about three times to pick up the "missed" brass...
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Maj Mike Sciales
In 1974 I was at Mtn Hime AFB and we got a brand new 2LT into our Security Police Sqdn. He stopped by the desk every morning to see if there were any messages. I worked night shifts so I always saw him as I was leaving. One morning I handed him a message that said "Hospital called, you need to report at 0800 to Capt X for a Pap smear." He went to the hospital and she (was in on the gag) gave him a slide and said "Go behind the curtain and rub the tip of your junk on the slide and bring it to the lab for analysis." He did as instructed and when he went to the lab the tech just started laughing. Happily he thought it was somebody else played the trick.
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Not 2Lts per se .. but the newly-commisioned...
Medical Drs are inducted as Capts and have to go thru a baby officer school at Ft. Sam.
When the 91A10 students got bored we would go over to where their training area and find one walking around with his briefcase in his right hand. At which time we would approach and deliver 1 ea snappy salute. About 80% of the time the newly minted Capt would attempt to hit themselves in the head with the briefcase...
Medical Drs are inducted as Capts and have to go thru a baby officer school at Ft. Sam.
When the 91A10 students got bored we would go over to where their training area and find one walking around with his briefcase in his right hand. At which time we would approach and deliver 1 ea snappy salute. About 80% of the time the newly minted Capt would attempt to hit themselves in the head with the briefcase...
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SPC Michelle Nelson - Thompson
Started out a 91A by end of course they changed to 91B. As of 1990 we still did it to the baby doctors. :D
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CPT (Join to see)
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. With regards to this I had a newly commissioned DR come to me after one weekend of being on call complaining about being "bossed" around and "told to go here and there and do things such as make copies..." I asked him who had told him to do these things and he said "Cadet XYZ" I couldn't help it, I busted out laughing. I did explain to him rank structure and the position of the "Cadet".
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SGT Marty Osier
Had a new Dr, promoted to Major, show up in our cast room on the first day we wore our new BDU uniforms. He held his shirt in hand and asked me where all of his pin ones went as well as his labels. I looked at the floor and saw a trail of black marks heading out into the hall, and had to ask... you didn’t shine the bottom of your boots ,did you sir? His reply was , Arent you supposed to?
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Not necessarily a butter bar, BUT while a cadet was doing a lane walk with our LT we buried his ruck in the center of our patrol base. Upon his return, and after some very frantic searching, he asked where his ruck was. He was handed a map, compass, protractor, 8 digit grid, and an e-tool and was told happy hunting.
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Suspended Profile
That does make quite a difference. Never mind what I said before; as long as the cadet wasn't just being abused, that is rather funny.
SPC Michelle Nelson - Thompson
LT James Jones - Considering how every Cadet I ever met was an asshole to everyone they saw, I say, well done!!!
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We had a new ensign that had duty one night. Came in wearing anti-C's and wearing an Emergency Breathing Apparatus while he was sleeping. Screamed, hey, we've got a live one here. Poor Ensighn damn near pooped himself.
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PO1 John Miller
CPO Joseph Grant, this seems like a classic Bubble Head prank Chief! Not just for Officers, but all "NUBS" in general! :>)
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Medic's are notorious pranksters. Go out to check the brake fluid on the Deuce 1/2. They always came back 30+ minutes later saying it was full. Yep, the fluid on the air brakes was full!
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SSG Robert Perrotto
SPC Michelle Nelson - Thompson - this has never failed on a 2LT that was not prior
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SPC Mark Spivey
I was fortunate to serve in a lance misled battalion in Germany which was on a small post where the medical support had little supervision much of the time I was there and our highest ranking individual was a PA, CW3 who was so not into military stuff,and before the chief got their we had an SP6 nurse who made SFC and got shipped off, but much of my three years there we were a bunch of SP4’s and below. Pranks were our specialty, but never really targeted officers except for one exception, on my roommate and my ETS day, we left a bag of rotten crap in the new Captian’s Jeep (under the passenger seat)who seemed to have a hard on for us. This guy thought he was John Wayne, but about 4 foot tall and his leadership was like having an abusive parent who tried to lead by example but was clumsy and couldn’t finish PT just a nightmare to serve under. The Battialion was scheduled to go to field for 2 weeks the morning we shipped out. I am sure they had to start smelling it a couple of days into that maneuver. I was just a kid and definitely a immature thing to do. I wonder if he got promoted on and made the Army a career or washed out.
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