Posted on Jan 24, 2014
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What is one of the best prank's you have either done, or heard of someone doing. Late one night while in Iraq 05', and training the Iraqi Army, we had our medic call in from our CP. She spoke with the SFC who was the RTO that night and told him that we found out what was wrong with our radio. We had her say that it was a simple fix and we only need some "B-A eleven hundred November's and some S-T Rings" Well this guy says "stand by" and went looking. About an hour or so later he surprisingly calls us back and said that he woke up 1SG who didnt have any and that he didnt know where they were and said to check with supply. He woke up supply and went digging through the connex of course to no avail... So we told him roger and we ended the transmissions, laughing our butts off of course. Well the next morning the OIC of our group, a MAJ, walks out of his door upon our return and sternly said, "you, you and you, COME HERE, RIGHT NOW!!" Thinking the worst of it, we walked in and stood at attention. He sits down across from us and pulls out a piece of paper. It was the 1594 from the night prior showing that this idiot actually LOGGED IN the BALLOONS and STRINGS... smh he busted out laughing and we all just lost it... funniest thing ever.<br>
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Capt Jeff Quinn
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In the field we would engage all of the PFC's in e-tool qualification. As you can imagine, this required the unsuspecting hardcharger to have the qual "facilitator" hold the cover as we have informed them that their cover "is not required" for this strenuous exercise. The e-tool is taken out and adjusted, and a quarter is produced by the facilitator that shows a large gash in it and then another clean one is produced for observation and set on a flat rock. The PFC is blind folded and then raises the etool over their head to hit it with everything they had. Quickly, the coin is removed and the cover set in its place. Commentary is provided back to the eager PFC that "you almost had it that time- hit it again". After one or two more strikes, we remove the PFC's blindfold and show him the clean quarter and the cover. I usually made sure we had an extra cover for these unsuspecting hardchargers to wear, but the result was priceless. S/F
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PFC Glen King
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Get some Riser Grease. Canopy lights. 90MM blank adapter. oh the list goes on.
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
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Asking to F-N-G to get me a can of squelch and chemlight batteries from the supply SGT
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SPC Jose Arguez
SPC Jose Arguez
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Asking our new boots, to get a 'Box-of-grid-squares' and a can of 'TR-double E' from the supply sergeant.
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PFC Jay Miner
PFC Jay Miner
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"Boom Checks" on the 155.....always a good one....
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SPC Nicholas Olena
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I had a PV2 that was under my charge in Iraq.  Sent him running around over night looking for form ID10-T.   He went to the G2 asked, The G2 sent him running back asking long form or carbon.  From there sent him back to the G2 looking for the Carbon copy of the ID10-T.  The G2 then sent him to the CARTY commander who was on duty that night.   Well worth the standing in front of the Corps commander with the Major who was in on this with me.   Laughed about it for a good 3 months.   
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SGM Sergeant Major
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Send a Soldier to go get a battery model number BA-1100N (BA1100N = Balloon. If written down the gig is up but if you are telling them to go get it and they don't write it down = CLASSIC!

We actually got our Squad Leader (SSG from the islands) on this one field problem. He swore up and down it was a battery. We couldn't stop laughing.
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Cpl Ray Fernandez
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There was a reason I was banned from using glue in my shop. About into my time at 1st Tanks we moved into a brand new building. Our old building had a quarter glued to the ground in front of our Comm Maintenance Officer's office. So in the new shop I replicated the quarter on the ground in front of the radio bay door. Even though there was a window to see into the walkway, the door opened in the path of the coin so anyone who ducked would run the risk of getting smacked.

Another time we glued the phone handsets down to the receivers. Some of the phones we even glued down to the desk. A couple of over eager Marines almost KOed themselves in a rush to pick up the phones.
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SSG Ralph Watkins
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When i worked in the signals intelligence field we had tons of NUG jokes.  A NUG was a new ugly girl or guy.  An ST-ONE or ID-10-T cards were great.  There were some I can't mention on here.  One I loved was we had some poor new guy out looking a Fallopian Tubes one night all around our radio collection site.  He came back empty handed saying the only ones who had them were our females but all of their's we in use.  He never did figure out he had been spoofed.

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SPC Brendan Kearns
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Make sure every trailer in the motor-pool has a drip pan under it
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SFC Division Protocol Ncoic
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<p>Being Food Service, left ahnded spatulas, tongs, spoons, ect is always fun!&nbsp; But my favorite was always a cold bucket of steam!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
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CPL James H. Clarke
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Right after we got back from Desert Storm, I had a new private right&nbsp;out of&nbsp;basic assigned to my squad, who knew every thing there was to know about being an Infantry soldier. I had enough of this cherry. I instructed him to go ask the 1SG for a Prick E-8. 1SG, a Vietnam vet went off on him. Then,&nbsp;1SG called me into his office for a good laugh.
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