What's your best shamming tactic?

I scored some tinted lenses for my cranial once when my P3 squadron was in Diego Garcia. Got stuck watching some mk20s and napped on the tongue of the ordnance trailer woke up when AO1 kicked my feet. Pretended I was ignoring him for a sec. That was less trouble than sleeping

Waaaay back when people started having computers on their desks: they would face them away from viewing and be "gainfully employed" behind them. People would assume they were writing an EPR, award, or something important. Caught the NCOIC playing Mahjong.

When youre in comms you walk around with computer parts. I.E. keyboard and mouse or cpu board in a magnetic bag. It works as a sham but the unfortunate catch 22 is i was always actually busy. Now as a guardsman with a high-paying contract job, I literally just walk out and go to Starbucks...I dont even like coffee.

It's all about landnav! First get you and a couple buddies to do some recon of a good area. Atleast two days of shaming possible. Get a couple teams together that are going to "learn", dispatch a humvee. On the way to the field grab the bbq from the house (have a pickup parked with the coolers and grill in a place you can drive the gov up to.) Go out to the field toss the pigskin and enjoy your day.

Not really shamming, but when I was an airman at AIMD Norfolk I used to walk around because I would already have fixed what was assigned to me. To keep me from wandering I was assigned to assist and manage programs normally reserved for people who were Petty Officers.

As an aviation maintenance guy, and I was never very big I'd crawl in the empty space behind the fuel cells in a Blackhawk and sleep in the tail boom. Later I became an MP, I would drive my patrol car to places where you could see the car but not me, it had the appearance that I was using radar

Shadow tip direction finding training. Make sure you have the TEO with you, move the rock every few minutes, and restart the 15 minute timer.

I was the battalion csm driver, whenever someone tried to get me to do something I'd lie and say I was working on a project for the XO, CSM, or Commander. Normally worked no one wanted to mess with what they had going on.

I was a 25B and pretty good at my job and shamming. Any time i was scheduled for gate guard at the range I would remote into the BN CDRs laptop and "break" something. Typically just renaming outlook.exe or something and wait for the call when he got in..

I skipped all training my last two years in by doing something similar to the training NCO's system. I would always go in person to fix it so I could sign the roster as if I went to training.

I also used google voice and gave that to the company rather than my real cell number. When they call GV, they are prompted for their name if they aren't in your contacts.. when you answer you get to hear the contact name or what they recorded. Any time I got the call, I'd decline it and head that way later in the day or call them after CoB and let them know I'd be by in the morning.. after stopping by to fix the issue, I'd be in wind again.

My short time on rear D, I'd fall out after the plt sgt went in to get our detail for the day, I'd stand right next to him listening in to what was planned and text the other E4s to dip if it was bad. When he went out the back door to formation, I went out the front door.. I'm pretty sure he knew what I was doing but he never said anything.

So I remember a few years ago we were fitting our trucks with MILES gear for XCTC. I was a SPC then so I was in charge of "supervising" the detail...bad move. I found a convoy from our sister troop going back near the barracks. I told my guys I had to "Go talk to Sgt. so and so" and that I'll be back ASAP. I slept for 3 hours and picked them up when they were done.