Noob tricks/pranks

**Wompet** · 14th May 08, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Photoguy67

I work for a trucking company and we are all the time telling the noobs to go get a trailer stretcher or a dock plate key.. It gets really fun when the supervisors start playing along and send them all around the dock asking this person or that one for a dock plate key.

I'll have to remember the dock plate key for all of the noobs we'll be getting the next few months.

My two best noob tricks were fairly innocent, but I don't think I can describe them on a family friendly forum ...

**James MacMillan** · 14th May 08, 07:09 AM

We had a few depending where we were:

When on the beach doing amphibious training we would send someone in search of the CGU - 11 (comes out to Sea Gull)

When doing helo ops someone would be sent for 300 yards of Flight Line.

When aboard ship, someone would invariably be posted to keep a look out for the Mail Buoy.

There were others, but those jump out of my memory right now.

**kilted in seattle** · 14th May 08, 07:37 AM

From my Navy days (and not already mentioned here)

Relative Bearing Grease
Sound powered phone batteries
Crank for the forward mast (so we could go under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel)
10 Yards of Stern Sheet

Someone tried to get me with a bucket of steam. We had some dry ice on board (for what, I don't remember) so I went to the galley and got some in a bucket. Once they had it, they weren't quite sure what to do with it.

The biggest one in the Army seemed to be grid squares. When I was a Fire Direction Control Section chief, one of my gun chiefs used to send privates up to my truck for grid squares. I decided to pay the guy back so I cut up a piece of chart paper, ensuring the grid lines were visible.

**cacunn** · 14th May 08, 05:16 PM

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**Standard** · 14th May 08, 05:34 PM

Chem-lite batteries and lefthanded smoke benders, not the righthanded ones since the wind is out of the west obviously.

**Amoskeag** · 15th May 08, 09:32 AM

As a kid I worked in a clam shack and the cook sent me down cellar to get some peanut oil. The shack was on pilings over the harbor. I knew that but went looking for the trap door.

Ive been sent to get wood stretchers, a bottle of steam conditioner, a ten inch metric wrench. I really like the ten yards of stern sheet and I will definitely have our new guy call DES and ask for ID10T form. (of course there is always the danger that some bureaucrat up there will actually go look for one)

I love pranks. Unfortunately some of the work we have to do in the wastewater field sound like pranks but there not!

Bob

**ardchoille** · 15th May 08, 10:42 AM

Oh, I forgot one; 50 yards of gig line. Anyone who has spent any time worrying about how their military uniform looks will appreciate this one.

**J.B. Simpson** · 15th May 08, 11:07 AM

When I was new to the USS Peleliu LHA-5 I was sent for some "Bulkhead Remover". When I returned with a backpack Oxy/Acetylene cutting torch they decided not to send me on any more "missions". We had "Sea Bats", "Coyote Diodees", and the ever popular "Bucket of Steam". At NAS Lemoore we sent a "Noob" for some "turn signal fluid", 4 hours later he returned empty handed!

**walkerk** · 14th May 08, 08:33 AM

The usual Air Force pranks were to send the new guy off to locate a bucket of "prop wash", reel of "flight line", etc.

My all-time favorite was to take the noobie into the BUFF cockpit to fill out the maintenance log. Sitting in one of the "downstairs" bomb-nav seats, he would eventually pull a leg back and activate a downward ejection seat "ankle restraint" ( http://www.ejectionsite.com/b-52.htm#229 ), locking his leg tight to the seat. Upon hearing the distinctive click, the experienced guy would shout: "Oh, jeez! You've activated the ejection seat! Don't move a muscle or you could be rocketed straight down into the asphalt! Wait here while we get an egress systems specialist to deactivate it!" After a couple of cups of coffee, we would return to the shaking, sweat-dripping noob and and simply reach down and rotate the mechanical restraint back to the cocked position. Did it happen to me? You betcha!

**BEEDEE** · 14th May 08, 08:53 AM

When I was an adult Scout leader, one of the pranks was to send a first time camper out to find a left handed smoke shifter. So I drew up a design with a set of instructions and handed it out whenever the question was asked. It was a kick to turn the joke back on the perpetrator.

Brian