Noob tricks/pranks

[kilted in seattle]

From my Navy days (and not already mentioned here)

Relative Bearing Grease
Sound powered phone batteries
Crank for the forward mast (so we could go under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel)
10 Yards of Stern Sheet

Someone tried to get me with a bucket of steam. We had some dry ice on board (for what, I don't remember) so I went to the galley and got some in a bucket. Once they had it, they weren't quite sure what to do with it.

The biggest one in the Army seemed to be grid squares. When I was a Fire Direction Control Section chief, one of my gun chiefs used to send privates up to my truck for grid squares. I decided to pay the guy back so I cut up a piece of chart paper, ensuring the grid lines were visible.

[cacunn]

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[Standard]

Chem-lite batteries and lefthanded smoke benders, not the righthanded ones since the wind is out of the west obviously.

[Amoskeag]

As a kid I worked in a clam shack and the cook sent me down cellar to get some peanut oil. The shack was on pilings over the harbor. I knew that but went looking for the trap door.

Ive been sent to get wood stretchers, a bottle of steam conditioner, a ten inch metric wrench. I really like the ten yards of stern sheet and I will definitely have our new guy call DES and ask for ID10T form. (of course there is always the danger that some bureaucrat up there will actually go look for one)
I love pranks. Unfortunately some of the work we have to do in the wastewater field sound like pranks but there not!
Bob

[ardchoille]

Oh, I forgot one; 50 yards of gig line. Anyone who has spent any time worrying about how their military uniform looks will appreciate this one.

[J.B. Simpson]

When I was new to the USS Peleliu LHA-5 I was sent for some "Bulkhead Remover". When I returned with a backpack Oxy/Acetylene cutting torch they decided not to send me on any more "missions". We had "Sea Bats", "Coyote Diodees", and the ever popular "Bucket of Steam". At NAS Lemoore we sent a "Noob" for some "turn signal fluid", 4 hours later he returned empty handed!