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Snipe hunt? - 12/31/2009 2:57:27 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 12/31/2009 3:57:01 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 12/31/2009 7:57:35 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 12/31/2009 8:24:32 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 12:10:41 AM   
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Perhaps he's searching for the keys to the drop zone.


Ball of shore line.
Left-handed monkey wrench.
Fish for the shaft seals.
A BT punch. (Ouch!)
Right-handed sky hook.

(It's fun to play with the non-quals.)

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 12:27:47 AM   
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Actually he has a medical condition that causes massive, caustic and noxious flatulence.  As soon as he arrives somewhere his new boss quickly reassigns him before morale gets too low and personel start going AWOL or on sick leave.


Reminds me of the time we greeted the inspectors for our ORI with an operations department (manning Combat, the Bridge, and Radio Central) who had all spent the prior evening ashore drinking dark Schlitz, eating pickled eggs, brats, and kraut. They wanted to know where the OBAs were after the first hour.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 1:11:40 AM   
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Actually he has a medical condition that causes massive, caustic and noxious flatulence.  As soon as he arrives somewhere his new boss quickly reassigns him before morale gets too low and personel start going AWOL or on sick leave.


Reminds me of the time we greeted the inspectors for our ORI with an operations department (manning Combat, the Bridge, and Radio Central) who had all spent the prior evening ashore drinking dark Schlitz, eating pickled eggs, brats, and kraut. They wanted to know where the OBAs were after the first hour.

A long tima ago our unit got this newly who drank Schlitz. We all used to sing 'When you'r out of Schlitz, Go buy real beer'.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 2:31:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		"A long tima ago our unit got this newly who drank Schlitz. We all used to sing 'When you'r out of Schlitz, Go buy real beer'."

I used to think that ad slogan was one of the worst: When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer.   Well.... duh! It's your last resort after finishing off all the other beer in the house!


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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 5:12:34 AM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 6:35:46 AM   
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Perhaps he's searching for the keys to the drop zone.


Ball of shore line.
Left-handed monkey wrench.
Fish for the shaft seals.
A BT punch. (Ouch!)
Right-handed sky hook.

(It's fun to play with the non-quals.)

Heh...these are good ones. Having been in the Boy Scouts, I'm only familiar with a left handed smoke shifter-but it sounds like they're all in the same vein.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 6:48:55 AM   
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Perhaps he's searching for the keys to the drop zone.


Ball of shore line.
Left-handed monkey wrench.
Fish for the shaft seals.
A BT punch. (Ouch!)
Right-handed sky hook.

(It's fun to play with the non-quals.)

Heh...these are good ones. Having been in the Boy Scouts, I'm only familiar with a left handed smoke shifter-but it sounds like they're all in the same vein.


There are probably hundreds in any military org., passed down from sea daddy to nugget.

Remembered one more--a #9 pipe-stretcher.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 2:51:35 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 3:04:13 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 3:53:44 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 4:42:58 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 4:54:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		My favorite was the chief cook who sent one of the new guys on mess cooking duty to the bosun for 100 yards of chow line. I don't know how he wound up in the forward fire room, but he was gone a long, long, time.

Of course, I had the happy time of answering a newly hatched JOOD who was riding us about one of our tranceivers (new model without all the bugs removed) when he was on the bridge for his first watch as JOOD underway. After the fourth or fifth trip up to the sig bridge (both of these abortions were in a compartment up there) to try to hand tune the beast, he jumped me as I was heading to the ladder down to Radio Central. The Captain was in his chair on the bridge because of the relatively foul weather (I was wet as a used dishtowel.) After he tried to chew me out to impress the Old Man, (He had a lot to learn!) and asked me why we couldn't get the gear working right, I told him that we hadn't got our supply of squelch oil in, and the wind was blowing the transmitter off frequency. When he said, "Okay, well get if fixed as fast as you can!", I thought the Old Man was about to pee in his pants.

The Captain later came down to Central for a cup of coffee and told me he had spoken with the young JG, and told him to trust the people on the ship to do their job. Then he said that I really shouldn't lie to young officers, that was a chief's job. A chief wouldn't get in as much trouble when the victim found out.

EDIT: Excuse me, I should have introduced this properly, as in "Now, this ain't no s&^t!"

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 7:56:39 PM   
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My favorite was the chief cook who sent one of the new guys on mess cooking duty to the bosun for 100 yards of chow line. I don't know how he wound up in the forward fire room, but he was gone a long, long, time.

Of course, I had the happy time of answering a newly hatched JOOD who was riding us about one of our tranceivers (new model without all the bugs removed) when he was on the bridge for his first watch as JOOD underway. After the fourth or fifth trip up to the sig bridge (both of these abortions were in a compartment up there) to try to hand tune the beast, he jumped me as I was heading to the ladder down to Radio Central. The Captain was in his chair on the bridge because of the relatively foul weather (I was wet as a used dishtowel.) After he tried to chew me out to impress the Old Man, (He had a lot to learn!) and asked me why we couldn't get the gear working right, I told him that we hadn't got our supply of squelch oil in, and the wind was blowing the transmitter off frequency. When he said, "Okay, well get if fixed as fast as you can!", I thought the Old Man was about to pee in his pants.

The Captain later came down to Central for a cup of coffee and told me he had spoken with the young JG, and told him to trust the people on the ship to do their job. Then he said that I really shouldn't lie to young officers, that was a chief's job. A chief wouldn't get in as much trouble when the victim found out.

EDIT: Excuse me, I should have introduced this properly, as in "Now, this ain't no s&^t!"


Well, as long as we're "properly" telling Sea Stories, this one was related by my father, who was a PO1 serving on this DE in early-50s San Fran. Seems that a certain PO1, treasurer of the ship's Welfare & Rec Fund, decided to mess with a young "smartass" SA. Telling the youngster that the Old Man had approved the W&R Fund painting the crew's mess in polka dots, he sent the nugget out to town to "find me ten gallons of polka dot paint."

The whole day passed without the young man's return. Just before evening colors, a delivery truck pulled up on the pier, and the SA jumped out and began helping the driver to unload ten one-gallon paint cans. Seems the resourceful messenger had, through word-of-mouth, found a leading-edge chemical R&D lab which had developed a 2-oil paint with large viscosity deltas whereby, when applied, one oil drew together on top of the other base layer oil, to form, (wait for it) polka dots. At the fantastic, experimental price of $60/gallon, the load came to $600 COD. The W&R Fund contained $700.

The driver drove away, the paint remained on the pier for the night, the PO1 went to explain to the XO why there wouldn't be any Christmas party for dependents that year, and the young, now "smart" SA, went to the mess decks to tell the tale of the Great PINK Polka Dot Paint Caper.

And that's no s&*t.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/1/2010 8:15:03 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/4/2010 2:10:26 PM   
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Army Tankers sent newbies to get squelch oil, or a key to the travel lock.



And don't forget brake pads for the road wheels.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/4/2010 7:07:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		We used to send nuggets out during preflight of the P-3 Orion to test the MAD (Magnetic Anomoly Detector) gear. This involved standing about 100 feet in front of the plane with the plane's fire axe hoisted above the nugget's head. The nugget was then instructed to slowly move clockwise around the plane with said axe still hoisted to test the directional capabilities of the gear. Upon completing the circuit, the nugget would return to the plane via the ladder, only to be informed that the gear failed the test and he would have to repeat the process with the fire axe submerged in water to more accurately simulate a large metal object in the ocean (like a submarine). The pictures were priceless...

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/4/2010 7:17:17 PM   
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Box of grid squares.

Refill the water fountain.

Blank firing adapter for the mortar.

Batteries for the chem-lites.

The p e p s i gauge.

T R double E's.

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/4/2010 10:54:26 PM   
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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/4/2010 11:06:37 PM   
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We used to send nuggets out during preflight of the P-3 Orion to test the MAD (Magnetic Anomoly Detector) gear. This involved standing about 100 feet in front of the plane with the plane's fire axe hoisted above the nugget's head. The nugget was then instructed to slowly move clockwise around the plane with said axe still hoisted to test the directional capabilities of the gear. Upon completing the circuit, the nugget would return to the plane via the ladder, only to be informed that the gear failed the test and he would have to repeat the process with the fire axe submerged in water to more accurately simulate a large metal object in the ocean (like a submarine). The pictures were priceless...

Outstanding!

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/9/2010 8:18:26 AM   
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Army Tankers sent newbies to get squelch oil, or a key to the travel lock.



And don't forget brake pads for the road wheels.



Or the ten pounds of track tension - as in "go ask the chief for ten pounds of track tension." I also always liked the canopy lights for night jumps.

Guess it's pretty obvious what service everyone was in, huh? Loved the "bucket of prop wash" - hilarious !

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RE: Snipe hunt? - 1/9/2010 10:03:34 AM   
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Army Tankers sent newbies to get squelch oil, or a key to the travel lock.



And don't forget brake pads for the road wheels.



Or the ten pounds of track tension - as in "go ask the chief for ten pounds of track tension." I also always liked the canopy lights for night jumps.

Guess it's pretty obvious what service everyone was in, huh? Loved the "bucket of prop wash" - hilarious !


My tank once was assigned to instruction rides for crunchies. We left our loader behind and squeezed two or three of the crunchies into the loader's position. One of them spotted the operation hour counter (or service hour meter or whatever it is called in proper English) located inside the turret. He asked what it is for. My tank commander (and platoon leader) camly and sympatheticly explained that it is the "turret rotation counter" and that after a certain amount of rotations to one side we would have to rotate the turret to the other side for an equal amount of rotations in order to avoid the turret getting bolted down and stuck or unscrewed and falling off.
The "Ah, I got it"-look of the crunchies was priceless...


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