Noob tricks/pranks

[emolas]

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

One of my favorites, along with having someone keep an eye out for the equator or date line.

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.

Along these same lines, the part numbers for batteries started with BA-xxxx so we would send them to finds some BA1100Ns for a PRC-E7.

Although not technically FNG hazing, as passenger helicopter flight crew, we had fun "grunt baiting". Things like having your passengers work a hydraulic hand pump or the plane will crash (and telling the pilot to drop altitude when they pause in pumping) or passing a Jack Daniels bottle full of tea back and forth from pilot to copilot while flying in a meandering pattern. Opening a panel in flight and having a whole bunch of nuts and bolts fall out was usually a crowd pleaser.

We used to get the new gunners to get the BFA for the howitzer. Frank

That's hilarious!