Noob tricks/pranks

[Yaish]

The military loves TLA's (three letter acronyms) so it's not uncommon to hear things like "C-L-P", "B-D- U', "E-G A", or what have you. Well one prank that used to be pulled on the FNG's ( A TLA in itself) was to send them to motor pool for a can of A-I-R. Of course this one had to stop once those little cans of compressed air for cleaning electronics became common.

When I was doing construction we'd have the newbs looking for things like board stretchers ("I cut this board an 1/8 too short, go look in the truck for my board stretcher!") and left handed hammers ("No, not this one, the left handed one! It points the other way!").

Again in the Marines, we used radios that had the designation PRC and some number depending on the model. PRC-77's were common, but sometimes we needed a "special" radio so we'd send the FNG to ask the Gunny where the PRC-E7 was. "Hey Gunny, where's the PRC (prick) E7?" (E7 being a Gunnery Sergeants enlisted grade). Most were smart of enough to catch that one, but you got a few.

[BEEDEE]

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

[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..

[Wompet]

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 ...

[cacunn]

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