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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:12:28 AM EST
I am a contractor, I work in a joint .mil shop (did 9 yrs in the Army).
Airman snuffy has about 5 min time in service in the Air Force, and Sgt old School tells snuffy to go get some grid squares.  Snuffy asks, "so what are those?" Sgt says "well, we use them when we want to be really precise in our location" Snuffy "oh ok" So we send him all over the place "yeah I think joe blow over there in that shop has some grid squares, yadda yadda yadda" The whole building was in on it. So, I got in to work last night and ask airman snuffy if he found his grid squares.... Snuffy deadpans and says: "I do not appreciate being hazed, that is borderline hazing"  So I try to explain to snuffy about critical thinking skills and determining if you have a bullshit order, which you will have in your career... snuffy: "no, it is hazing" me: speechless yeah_ok.gif  What the hell is happening to the .mil? Is this the new Obama .mil or what? |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:17:54 AM EST
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Cool story, bro.
In before "Millenials are stupid" |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:18:43 AM EST
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Commo sergeant did the box of grid squares prank to an E1 one time.
Kid came back with a box of maps. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:21:52 AM EST
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Airman Snuffy is going to have a lot of fun for the rest of his (hopefully short) Air Farce career.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:22:30 AM EST
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Commo sergeant did the box of grid squares prank to an E1 one time. Kid came back with a box of maps. Hope that kid has a long military career.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:25:53 AM EST
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Fucking crybabies in the .mil these days. A buddy of mine just posted on facebook that he had to have one of his joes 550 cord his driver's license to himself because he lost it, I'm waiting to see him post that he got in trouble for hazing.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:30:21 AM EST
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For those that remember the old radios...PRC-77. They were called "Prick 77's"
Young E-2 was told to go to "Top" and ask him for a "Prick E-8 battery"
Fun was had |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:31:57 AM EST
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I am a contractor, I work in a joint .mil shop (did 9 yrs in the Army). Airman snuffy has about 5 min time in service in the Air Force, and Sgt old School tells snuffy to go get some grid squares.
Snuffy asks, "so what are those?" Sgt says "well, we use them when we want to be really precise in our location" Snuffy "oh ok" So we send him all over the place "yeah I think joe blow over there in that shop has some grid squares, yadda yadda yadda" The whole building was in on it. So, I got in to work last night and ask airman snuffy if he found his grid squares.... Snuffy deadpans and says: "I do not appreciate being hazed, that is borderline hazing"
So I try to explain to snuffy about critical thinking skills and determining if you have a bullshit order, which you will have in your career... snuffy: "no, it is hazing" me: speechless yeah_ok.gif
What the hell is happening to the .mil? Is this the new Obama .mil or what? I didn't mind when I was banging a wrench on the side of my 113 checking the armor for soft spots 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:38:19 AM EST
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We sent a guy to the armory to get "some of that coolant to replace in the night sights." (Night sights on the TOW missile are liquid cooled.) The coolant was claimed to be some radioactive shit. The armorer was prepared with a Styrofoam cup filled to the brim with chem-light juice.
Said chem-lights were spilled in the armory and hilarity ensued. Hazing was when the mortarmen tied the boot to a tree with him dressed only in underwear and covered in busted open chem-lights. He was an "aiming stick."
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:39:56 AM EST
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I never understood why this is funny.
Oh, they tried it on me when I was a PVT. One morning I as sent to find grid squares or something equally non-existent. I knew better. So I went back to my room and took a nap. Then went to chow and back to my room for another nap. I was playing some pool in the dayroom when the 1SG asked me what the hell I was doing playing pool durning duty hours. I told him what I was looking for. He told me to un-ass the AO so I toddled back to the motor pool about 15:00. My section Sgt was like, "Where the hell have you been all day?" I was like "Those grid squares, couldn't find any. Need me to look for anything else?" He was pissed but the Motor Sgt thought it was funny. I just don't get it. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:40:01 AM EST
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For those that remember the old radios...PRC-77. They were called "Prick 77's" Young E-2 was told to go to "Top" and ask him for a "Prick E-8 battery"
Fun was had 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:40:57 AM EST
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Ever try to find food for a gammagoat?
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:42:17 AM EST
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I didn't mind when I was banging a wrench on the side of my 113 checking the armor for soft spots First time through I misread that as "wench" It makes you story a whole lot better. 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:42:28 AM EST
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I never understood why this is funny. Oh, they tried it on me when I was a PVT. One morning I as sent to find grid squares or something equally non-existent. I knew better. So I went back to my room and took a nap. Then went to chow and back to my room for another nap. I was playing some pool in the dayroom when the 1SG asked me what the hell I was doing playing pool durning duty hours. I told him what I was looking for. He told me to un-ass the AO so I toddled back to the motor pool about 15:00. My section Sgt was like, "Where the hell have you been all day?" I was like "Those grid squares, couldn't find any. Need me to look for anything else?" He was pissed but the Motor Sgt thought it was funny. I just don't get it. LOL Wise-ass!
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:44:00 AM EST
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Today have him go look for some relative bearing grease....
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:46:56 AM EST
[#15]
Food for a GammaGoat! We had those, I probably would have tried it on a PV2 given the chance!
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:49:34 AM EST
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First time through I misread that as "wench" It makes you story a whole lot better. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I didn't mind when I was banging a wrench on the side of my 113 checking the armor for soft spots First time through I misread that as "wench" It makes you story a whole lot better. that certainly would've made that day better for me
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:50:33 AM EST
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Case of K9P,Pipe Stretcher, 10 Yards of Flight line, Trash bag exhaust samples, Capt. D's called for you(number to Food place at BX), Major Storm called for you(number to weather office) much fun was had.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:50:54 AM EST
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im still looking for that damned PU55Y cleaner and A1R spray
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:52:51 AM EST
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We used to send new guys to ask our maintenance warrant for ink for the hardcopy unit (its a thermal printer that uses carbon paper). That usually went pretty well.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:54:50 AM EST
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For those that remember the old radios...PRC-77. They were called "Prick 77's" Young E-2 was told to go to "Top" and ask him for a "Prick E-8 battery"
Fun was had When I was in NCO school, we had a two year meritoriously promoted intel sergeant in my squad. A few of us grunts sent her to the SNCOIC, Gunnery Sergeant Kent, with the instructions, "Tell him you need a prick E-7." She did. Gunny Kent went on to become Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. On the grid square thing, I heard of one guy who returned with a protractor and told the sender to use the protractor to find his own grid square. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 7:58:22 AM EST
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Quoted:
I am a contractor, I work in a joint .mil shop (did 9 yrs in the Army). Airman snuffy has about 5 min time in service in the Air Force, and Sgt old School tells snuffy to go get some grid squares.
Snuffy asks, "so what are those?" Sgt says "well, we use them when we want to be really precise in our location" Snuffy "oh ok" So we send him all over the place "yeah I think joe blow over there in that shop has some grid squares, yadda yadda yadda" The whole building was in on it. So, I got in to work last night and ask airman snuffy if he found his grid squares.... Snuffy deadpans and says: "I do not appreciate being hazed, that is borderline hazing"
So I try to explain to snuffy about critical thinking skills and determining if you have a bullshit order, which you will have in your career... snuffy: "no, it is hazing" me: speechless yeah_ok.gif
What the hell is happening to the .mil? Is this the new Obama .mil or what? I would have said the same thing, but to be punking the guys back. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 8:02:08 AM EST
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In Boy Scouts we used to send people around for left-handed smoke shifters and bacon stretchers.
eta - Not to mention the many nights of snipe hunts. 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 8:06:18 AM EST
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He should have "Message to Garcia'd" What is A Message to Garcia you ask? A Message to Garcia is a book written by Elbert Hubbard, and it is a book on the Commandant's reading list (Marines)  Basically is a book about some guy who is told to go find some guy and deliver a message. It's so riveting...because you don't know if he ever found the guy or delivered the message.... So when you tell a Boot to go find someone or something and they ask "what is that/who is that and where are they", you tell them "Boot! [knife hand], Message to Garcia!" Because you probably don't know who you're looking for and/or know where they are also |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 8:30:20 AM EST
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I recall there being at least one new squid on our ship being put up on the forecastle with a set of sound powered phones, binos, life jacket, safety line, and a boathook on "mail buoy watch".
Guys on the bridge were calling out bearing and distance over the phones, asking why the heck couldn't he see it yet.....<good times> |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 8:58:03 AM EST
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Quoted: I am a contractor, I work in a joint .mil shop (did 9 yrs in the Army). Airman snuffy has about 5 min time in service in the Air Force, and Sgt old School tells snuffy to go get some grid squares. Snuffy asks, "so what are those?" Sgt says "well, we use them when we want to be really precise in our location" Snuffy "oh ok" So we send him all over the place "yeah I think joe blow over there in that shop has some grid squares, yadda yadda yadda" The whole building was in on it. So, I got in to work last night and ask airman snuffy if he found his grid squares.... Snuffy deadpans and says: "I do not appreciate being hazed, that is borderline hazing" So I try to explain to snuffy about critical thinking skills and determining if you have a bullshit order, which you will have in your career... snuffy: "no, it is hazing" me: speechless yeah_ok.gif What the hell is happening to the .mil? Is this the new Obama .mil or what? It all started about the time these were being passed out, in basic training:  They're issued on receipt of a completed form ID 10T. PMCS for these units require replacing the power source, a single BA 1100N, every 120 days. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:03:22 AM EST
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We sent a new airman to the base hospital to find us some more fallopian tubes.
We also had a pair of E-2s out on the flightline with huge plastic bags gathering air for "flightline air quality samples." |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:06:08 AM EST
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We used to send new privates to the OBGYN for their Pap Smear. By that point they have had so many shots, and tests that they wouldn't question another visit to the doctor.
Also, at Benning we got pranked with the infamous "nut shot". I feel like the entire base was in on that prank, and I hope they still pull it on new guys today
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:10:50 AM EST
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Shoulda kicked him in the dick.
On a related note, we got a boot LT to request a PRC-E5 from supply |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:11:03 AM EST
[#29]
That shit has been under the "hazing" umbrella since about 2004 by DoD instruction.
Fucking stupid, but brought to us by the nanny state. No Mail Buoy watch either. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:12:42 AM EST
[#30]
Chem light batteries, 25mm blank adapter
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:12:45 AM EST
[#31]
I commonly tell new flight liners to go get me a bucket of rotor wash so we can get prepped for the track and balance.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:13:11 AM EST
[#32]
These forms are used often at my squadron.....
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:13:17 AM EST
[#33]
Tell him that he needs to get 50 feet of flightline next!
And then he will need to fill out the ID10T form! 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:19:25 AM EST
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For those that remember the old radios...PRC-77. They were called "Prick 77's" Young E-2 was told to go to "Top" and ask him for a "Prick E-8 battery"
Fun was had Some guys in my platoon got a new private to tell Top we needed a prick E-8 that didn't work that we could use for training. Many pushups were done that day -by everyone.
I never fell for any pranks, but the opposite happened. i refused to get something we actually needed because I thought it was a prank. There's a tool commonly called a dog bone' used for compressing road arms. The mechanic working on our vehicle asked me to get one for him, and I was like "I ain't asking the tool-room guy for a fuckin' dog bone".
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:19:44 AM EST
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My old shop was next to NDI (non destructive inspection) shop, so we would send our new guys over there to have their newly issued steel toe boots inspected for cracks. Wouldn't you know, they always found cracks. So then we would send them around with their red tagged boots trying to get a crack waiver. One time our commander was in on in and the guy reported to him, the commander asked the guy where he was from and he said Mississippi. The commanders response was "good, then you should be used to walking around barefooted".
Speaking of cracks, one of our new maintenance officers fell victim to the crack in the intake prank. One of the grossest ones was when they could get new guys to use a finger to check the "the reverse pitot tube" for blockage. The C-130 did not have a reverse pitot tube, but it did have a urinal drain tube. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:21:23 AM EST
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In Boy Scouts we used to send people around for left-handed smoke shifters and bacon stretchers. eta - Not to mention the many nights of snipe hunts. I never understood how sending kids out poaching and then convincing them later that a real bird doesn't exist was funny. 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:21:46 AM EST
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That shit has been under the "hazing" umbrella since about 2004 by DoD instruction. Fucking stupid, but brought to us by the nanny state. No Mail Buoy watch either. My little bro is a Sgt. in the army now, and he can't make his squad do pushups, because it's hazing. He has to write them up instead.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:23:14 AM EST
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Duct tape him to the water cooler with a sign that says, "This is hazing."
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:24:01 AM EST
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Ever try to find food for a gammagoat? Lol |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:25:59 AM EST
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I never fell for any pranks, but the opposite happened. i refused to get something we actually needed because I thought it was a prank. There's a tool commonly called a dog bone' used for compressing road arms. The mechanic working on our vehicle asked me to get one for him, and I was like "I ain't asking the tool-room guy for a fuckin' dog bone". Kinda like the ubiquitous "donkey dick". Not only was is a real tool, so many tools earned that nickname that the tool room guy would ask which one. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:26:57 AM EST
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I never understood how sending kids out poaching and then convincing them later that a real bird doesn't exist was funny. http://www.dec.ny.gov/images/wildlife_images/wdckcrowsrg11.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In Boy Scouts we used to send people around for left-handed smoke shifters and bacon stretchers. eta - Not to mention the many nights of snipe hunts. I never understood how sending kids out poaching and then convincing them later that a real bird doesn't exist was funny. http://www.dec.ny.gov/images/wildlife_images/wdckcrowsrg11.jpg My wife still does not believe me that there ARE really snipes. Even when I showed her the NC hunting seasons for them.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:30:45 AM EST
[#42]
Pipe stretchers, blinker fluid, diesel spark plugs...All good stuff.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:30:58 AM EST
[#43]
Squelch Grease
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:31:41 AM EST
[#44]
I never did find the "Stretcher, Paper, 1 Each. 
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:36:47 AM EST
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My little bro is a Sgt. in the army now, and he can't make his squad do pushups, because it's hazing. He has to write them up instead. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That shit has been under the "hazing" umbrella since about 2004 by DoD instruction. Fucking stupid, but brought to us by the nanny state. No Mail Buoy watch either. My little bro is a Sgt. in the army now, and he can't make his squad do pushups, because it's hazing. He has to write them up instead. Unless that changed in the last year, that's a unit thing. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:54:16 AM EST
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I never understood how sending kids out poaching and then convincing them later that a real bird doesn't exist was funny. http://www.dec.ny.gov/images/wildlife_images/wdckcrowsrg11.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In Boy Scouts we used to send people around for left-handed smoke shifters and bacon stretchers. eta - Not to mention the many nights of snipe hunts. I never understood how sending kids out poaching and then convincing them later that a real bird doesn't exist was funny. http://www.dec.ny.gov/images/wildlife_images/wdckcrowsrg11.jpg Annual snipe hunt in boy scouts was one of my favorite past-times.
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Posted: 3/11/2015 9:59:51 AM EST
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E-tool qualification:
The blindfolded private is tested to see how deep a hole he can make in the dirt in ten seconds, with an angled E-tool. Take his cover off, put on blindfold, have him take one practice swing at the deck. Ready...go! Remove blindfold. Reveal hacked up and destroyed cover. Laugh. |
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Posted: 3/11/2015 10:03:13 AM EST
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Posted: 3/11/2015 10:27:30 AM EST
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Very similar to the construction industry. I know a guy whose business is old-school repairs to homes in historical districts, where the appearance needs to be as period-authentic as possible.
He had a job replacing all the window sash ropes in a house with chain. He also had a helper who was a whiny, lazy, pain in the ass. They were taking the windows apart one morning and the helper wouldn't stop complaining. Parking's hard around here. I hate vacuuming up all the dirt while we're working. They oughta just let 'em put new windows in. So they pulled a window apart, and Bob says, "Oh, look, this is wrong. The put a short weight in this one. I need you to go to the hardware store and ask them for a long weight". The kid leaves, Bob calls down to the store, where his buddy works. When the kid gets there, he tells the counter guy, "I work for XX Renovation, and I'm here for a long weight". The guy tells him, "Okay, but you might want to have a seat, it might take a while". LOL The kid figured it out an hour later........
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Posted: 3/11/2015 10:35:08 AM EST
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We use to have new recruits at the department push a penny across the bay floor to get their badge. And they had to use a medicine cup to refill the drinking fountain.......I guess that is the fire service.
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