Noob tricks/pranks

[TheSp8]

Along with a box of grid squares and chem light batteries we've sent new PVTs to look for a box of azimuths. The supply SGTs were notified before hand and they got sent all around post. We also had them look for a fresh set of frequencies. Compass batteries for night time land nav works as well.

YMOS,
Tony

[cormacmacguardhe]

When my dad was young he worked for awhile laying railroad track, one day his foreman sent for a "two inch dutchman". My father, thinking this was a hazing prank, went off to look for one, he walked down the track around a bend and sat down for about a half-hour. When he returned he found out that there really was such an item.
I remember when one of my co-workers sent a FNG to get a set of muffler bearings for our pipe stretcher.

[James MacMillan]

When my dad was young he worked for awhile laying railroad track, one day his foreman sent for a "two inch dutchman". My father, thinking this was a hazing prank, went off to look for one, he walked down the track around a bend and sat down for about a half-hour. When he returned he found out that there really was such an item.
I remember when one of my co-workers sent a FNG to get a set of muffler bearings for our pipe stretcher.

OK - So what is a "two inch dutchman".........?

[walkerk]

OK - So what is a "two inch dutchman".........?

A short piece of rail to fill a gap.

[Mr. Kilt]

When I was delivering auto parts 20-odd years ago, mechanics used to have their new apprentices call our shop and order a "can of compression". We went so far as to keep a handful of new, unopened empty cans complete with labels on them that we'd send out. Of course when the newbie apprentice opened the can there was nothing in it. The mechanic would then chastise them for letting the compression get out. LOL

Another funny trick one of the shops pulled on a new driver we had was to hook the left-turn signal light wire up to the horn in her truck.

[Jerry]

As a USN RADAR Electronics Tech, it was one of my Preventive Maintainance
jobs to change the surface search radar Magnetron tube after a specifided number of hours in service. The Navy was not very much into recycling, so the tubes were usually dumped at sea on our next deployment. As a result, we, in the electronics shop usually stripped the extremely powerful magnets from the rest of the tube before storing the rest for disposal later. One of these magnets would lift a hundred pound weight with no trouble. So. one of our favorite pranks on a new striker was to place one of the magnets in the bottom of the shop waste can and cover it with paper.Since the can was sitting on a steel deck, it was nearly impossible to lift. Then we'd tell the striker to take out the trash.

[sharpdressedscot]

I like that one!

[James MacMillan]

Another funny trick one of the shops pulled on a new driver we had was to hook the left-turn signal light wire up to the horn in her truck.

I think the people in Detroit still have fun this way. I took delivery of a brand new '07 Chevy Malibu for a buddy while he was in Irak, and went through all the paper work, so he could use it right away when he got back.

The rear turn signals were reversed! Fronts were OK but the rears were backwards. It took the mechanic only a few minutes to switch the wires, but he said that he had been seeing a bunch like that.

Practical jokesters are everywhere.....

[OFCJAX]

Reminds me of the old "Canooter Valve" parts hunt.

Along with making sure the trucks were full of "Blinker fluid" and keeping the left handed hammers behind the Hummer key rack.

[Cerebite]

Well let us see;
"Feed the shaft seals" is always a classic [shaft seals are bearings on the propulsion shaft to keep the water out of the people tube]

The title of the officer in charge of Auxilary Division is the Damage Control Assistant. In order to dispose of anything from a submarine at sea it has to be blown overboard. The joke was to sent he NUB [Non Useful Body, ie someone who can not support the watchbill] up to Control, preferably while the DCA was on watch and ask to Blow the DCA.

As part of the regular operations of the reactor the radioactive particulate in the air would regularly be sampled with what is called a Portable Air Sample, the joke is to hand the NUB a balloon and tell him to have the Portable Air Sample tested.

If you prefer more physical pranks you could:
attach a drill to the "whooper" of the sound powered phone [think something akin to a WWII air raid siren]
Post the NUB in their rack. While they are sleeping [when they should be up and qualifying] you get several people to lift up their rack [with them in it] and put up the support post thereby trapping them in their bed.
One that happened regularly enough that it did not need to be "planned" was to "flush" the head while the San tanks were being blown overboard. Let us just say that it makes a lovely mess for the "victim" to clean up.