Hey soldier, I need a..........
can of muzzle blast. This is one of the things we use to send new soldiers off to find. Young and new tankers would bring their tanks to the shop to have the main gun tube borescoped. We would send them back to their motorpools on foot to get get a can of muzzle blast, so they could get their gun tube clean for inspection. Sometimes they would be gone for quite a while getting the run around, and by the time they got back, their tank was ready to go.[:D]
Another thing we told them was to make sure they didn't turn the turret around counter clockwise 18 times or the turret would unscrew and fall off. If they were to go around 18 times clockwise it would screw down and lock up. We've actually caught a couple of young privates counting and losing track of where they were. [:D]
I have another story to tell, but I want to see if anyone else has some military humor to share.[:D][:p][}:)]
Another thing we told them was to make sure they didn't turn the turret around counter clockwise 18 times or the turret would unscrew and fall off. If they were to go around 18 times clockwise it would screw down and lock up. We've actually caught a couple of young privates counting and losing track of where they were. [:D]
I have another story to tell, but I want to see if anyone else has some military humor to share.[:D][:p][}:)]
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[:D][:D][:D] 18 times!!! They were actually counting.!!![:D][:D][:D] 0 -
They tried to send me off for lanyard grease. I asked why the H--l would you put grease on a lanyard and caught them in their game.[:D] 0 -
Have a buddy that was a mechanic in the Air Force. Worked on generators. They would send new guys in search of some filopian(sp?)tubes. 0 -
Let's see......
Go get me 20 feet of gun line
Go find the box of grid squares
Where are the hummer keys?
Go find some chem-light batteries
Go tell the Gunny you need batteries for the PRC-E7 (pronounced gentleman-E-7) radio....
Go get he BFA (blank firing adaptor) for the mortar..
The list goes on and on and on.....0 -
Navy stuff:
Relative bearing grease. Sent them to an engine room. They would come back with their pants filled with grease.
Send them down to the boiler room for a BT Punch. They would come back with both shoulders black and blue.
Go to the bridge and get the keys for the Captains Gig.
Mail Bouy watch0 -
Pull that truck up to the back side of the motorpool where they have the air compressor. Let all the winter air out of the tires and then go in and ask the mechanic to hook the hose up to the summer air tank so you can fill up those flat tires. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by idsman75
Pull that truck up to the back side of the motorpool where they have the air compressor. Let all the winter air out of the tires and then go in and ask the mechanic to hook the hose up to the summer air tank so you can fill up those flat tires.
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When I was stationed in Germany for my second tour we saw alot of Grafenwhoer Trainig Area for Tank Gunnery. Being in armament support we usually just lived on range and set up a radio in the hut to communicate with the company back in the rear. A fello NCO, and one of his privates set up the radio and went to test. The radio didn't work so the NCO went out and found that the coax cable wasn't hook to the antenna correctly. The NCO made the neccesary adjustment and he heard the private holler out "It's working". The private came out and asked what he had to do to make it work and the NCO told him he rub a little frequency grease on the cable to make it work. Astonished, the private followed the NCO back in the hut to do a radio check. The NCO adjusted the squelch to make the radio appear to act up. He told the private to go out and put more frequency grease on the coax cable and that should tune it in. The private said I don't have any so the NCO told him to wait at the radio and he would get more. The NCO went to the shop van and put a small amount of anti-freeze in a plain little oil bottle. He returned to the hut and gave the private the bottle and a rag and told him to wipe a small amount on the coax cable. The private did, the NCO readjusted the squelch, the radio worked fine, the private, again was amazed.
This little trick continued on for several days as the private became our radio expert thanks to the frequency grease. He was just amazed at how this worked and he finally gave a radio class to his peers on how to set up and maintain this radio in the field, with emphasis on this new technology called Frequency Grease. He said " I don't know how it works, but it does!" , and he demonstrates. Everyone lost it then, and that's when he finally realized what all the laughter was about. One of his peers said, "Dude it's anti-freeze!"0 -
Best part about all these stories is they happened to people that you outranked! Rank does have it's privileges! 0 -
Squelch oil, ID ten T kit, Key for the impact area at Ft. Sill-a place full of artillery ranges, flight line, rotor wash, prop wash, grid squares,
seen and done all of these0 -
makes me wonder how many privates caught on immediately but used the errand as an excuse to go slack off [:p] 0 -
Left-handed shot group tightener. 0 -
We would do some of those above and send 'em looking for a tire pressure gauge to check the pressure in the roadwheels of our Bradleys. [:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by KSUmarksman
makes me wonder how many privates caught on immediately but used the errand as an excuse to go slack off [:p]
[:D] I always had a pretty good knack for spotting when people were pulling my leg. I got the morning off once when I was sent to bring back some "bulkhead remover"0 -
In the F-18 community we had a couple tricks all our own for the new guys. They quickly get used to taking samples of hydraulic fluid, fuel, and such. So on maintenance turns we would have the new guys grab a 50 gallon trash bag and tell them we need an "exhaust sample" So they propmtly walk up behind the running aircraft holding a trash bag in the air trying to catch an exhaust sample. FFfffwwwpp!
And as others have said, there are many other things.0 -
oldie but goodie,portable padeyes and bulkhead remover. (navy) 0 -
Not military, but I've sent people I work with to the boilerhouse for a bucket of steam...and they went... 0 -
Lemme see,
Hey private go get me a can of track tension!
............ go get me a box of grid squares!
Hey this humvee is low on blinker fluid!
and my personal favorite,
One SPC tells the driver to go and PMCS the rotator splints!
said private was frantically trying to find rotator splints in the humvee manual. The next day (told ya he was dumb,) he told his team leader that he was unable to find the rotator splints, the E-6 team leader trying to save face, and used to the privates laziness proceeds to chew out the private for failing to PMCS the rotator splints! We let this go on for a few days before we finally let them know that rotator splints are BS! True story!!0 -
Go get me the keys to the sea chest.
Find a smoke shifter for the stack.
The guys in the damage control locker need a board stretcher.
Hold this pole and snag the mail bag as we pass by the mail buoy.
Oh, and we had a guy standing on the pier with a tinfoil suit on while we tuned the radars to him... heh heh
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A bucket of prop wash
100 feet of flight-line
A box of jet blast
Square needle in the left nut0 -
We need some blank ammo for the 203/Mk 19.
Sorry, that's all I've got...I don't have enough rank to get away with anything yet.0 -
And then there's always sledge hammer qualification. You tell them they need to qualify by hitting 7 out of 10 strikes in a 1 ft square area. "cept since we frequently work at night it must be done blindfolded. You have to take their head gear off to put the blindfold on and after they start swinging you throw there hat in the square and watch them blast it with a sledge.
We even went so far as to having it annotated on our 348's and had an "official" qualification sheet.0
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