Noob tricks/pranks

[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

[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