Unit Pride
Unit Pride
Posted on Sep 9, 2021
What practical jokes did your unit pull on new privates?
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Being in the Field Artillery Line, I had to do what was called the "BOOM Check". This involed me getting my face in the rear of the gun and yelling "Boom" as loud as I can, the reasoning was to check for cracks in the barrel, needless to say this brought a lot of laughs from those that have had to do this as well. I got creative with my jokes, my two favorites were having a private go to the 1st Sergeant asking for a ID10-T form so they can get grid squares from the supply Sergeant, and asking the maintenance bay for blinker fluid for the humvees.
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Go get a Spool of Flight Line from Supply,
Collect Exhaust Samples,
Go Get Chem-Light Batteries from supply,
Pull Start a humvee using the steering wheel lock
Tell the Readiness NCO I'm looking for the "Pricky 7" (Prick E-7) *ONLY DO THIS IF YOU HAVE GOOD RAPPORT WITH THE NCO LMAO*
I'll add more as i remember them...
Collect Exhaust Samples,
Go Get Chem-Light Batteries from supply,
Pull Start a humvee using the steering wheel lock
Tell the Readiness NCO I'm looking for the "Pricky 7" (Prick E-7) *ONLY DO THIS IF YOU HAVE GOOD RAPPORT WITH THE NCO LMAO*
I'll add more as i remember them...
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SPC (Join to see)
I told one of my Privates to go ask the 1SG for a special type of closed-circuit radio, the PRC-E8. They asked for a Prick E-8 without prompting. Solid gold, and absolutely worth the smoke session.
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The usual ones , go to supply for light bulb repair kits, maintenance for 5 pound cans of compressed air, the normal hyginks brother CPL Adam Schoenwald
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MSG Greg Kelly
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth - that was one I forgot about until I saw your post they got me with that. I was headed to supply and if anybody needed anything one of my squad leaders yeah Squelch grease. Didn't even think about I wrote it down. Got to to supply started reading off my list then it hit me and I busted out laughing the overworked supply SGT got a kick out of it to
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
MSG Greg Kelly we used to tell new mechanics here at the shop that weren't used to tractors with turbos that they needed to give them a couple of pumps of grease, it was too freaking hilarious watching them look for a grease fitting.
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1SG Ted Rolson
We would send the new guy to the supply room for a can of "squelch" (prc77 radio). Another item would be 500 feet of contour line. The supply sgt would get in on the game also and send the new guy back to find out what color of contour line was needed.
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