Noob tricks/pranks

[Bob C]

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

I was going to mention that one. Must be a worldwide Boy Scouts standard.

[Drillagent]

As a mechanized infantryman we used to send the cherries down to the motor pool with a ball pean hammer and a piece of chalk and tell them to knock on the armor of the Bradley fighting vehicles and mark the soft spots. There are no soft spots in armor, but one day this kid found five. Imagine the platoon sergeant's words when he came asking us why his vehicles had all these white X's all over them. Then there's the chemlight batteries, the Bradley exhaust sample taken by holding a trash bag over the exhaust port, the 25mm cannon blank adapter (no such animal) and of course asking the new butter bar (lieutenant) to check the air pressure in the road wheels. (They're solid rubber)

[Highland Logan]

We used to get the new gunners to get the BFA for the howitzer. There was always the popular box of frequencies kept at the CP. But the best was when we sent a driver all the back out to the ASA (Ammo dump, about 13 clicks from camp) to get the blank fuse setter before we fired the Canada Day salute.... ah good times!

Frank

[Tattoo Bradley]

USAF, maintenance Favorites

Send newb for:
1 bucket of K9-P
1 metric crecent wrench

There were others, but these are the first that come to mind.

[Alaskan Kilted Guy]

When doing land navigation training, we'd send guys looking for a box of "grid squares".

[MuffinMan]

Being one who loves jokes, I always have the new guy buy the office's lotto tickets at lunch. The next morning I would come in early with a quick pick ticket for the next lotto but with last week's winning numbers. I then place that "winning ticket" in with the rest and waited for the FNG to check the numbers and tell the office that everyone is a millionaire. OH the shouts of joy. poor sucker

MM

[alikws]

Ok, Private Snafu, I want you to go to to the motor pool and pick up a set of muffler bearings, a set of piston return springs, some headlight fluid - halogen if possible, and a can of beep, for the horn. Next I want you to go to the marina and pick up 500 feet of shoreline, the keys to the oarlocks, and the boatswain's punch. Next go to the armory and pick up the cannon report, then go to the hanger and pick up 50 feet of flightline, a 55 gallon drum of prop wash, a skyhook, and a 5 gallon can of prop pitch, then go to the radio shack for a box of ohms, then finely go to the maintenance shack for a board stretcher and a case of post holes. We'll be waiting....

[ardchoille]

When I was in the Navy, aboard ship, I once sent a SR after a bucket of steam and batteries for a sound-powered-phone. He actually went to the gear locker and asked for that stuff too.

[duchessofnc]

Ya'll are just too evil..

[OFCJAX]

Oh man, I forgot about the "mail bouy" one!

As far as the Jack being passed around, the grunts I served with woulda asked for a swig!