Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

If a military newbie is sent to fetch a bucket of prop wash, or keys to the submarine...

Posted on 05/31/2015 7:49:46 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-105 next last
To: mabarker1

Yeah, when I reported aboard MCAS El Toro, I was told to go MAG - 11 Admin, and pick up DD Form ID 10 T.........id10t


61 posted on 05/31/2015 9:07:13 AM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

Suppose you did this to a black coworker and he struck back by filing one of the many harassment options available. Or, suppose you did it to everybody except the black (or woman or lesbian or gay) and they complain because you haven’t treated them the same. The world has changed and things that were once viewed as harmless are now viewed through a different lens.

Making somebody feel like an idiot is never a good idea.

Our joker once complained that nobody took him seriously. I rattled off the most recent six or seven times he’d fooled somebody and he wailed, “but this time I’m serious.” He could have claimed the building was on fire and because he’d said it no amount of smoke would have convinced us.


62 posted on 05/31/2015 9:08:48 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

A buddy of mine referred to being sent below for a BT punch. The boiler technicians were all too happy to comply.


63 posted on 05/31/2015 9:09:00 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76
top secret submarine base there

OMG, lmao. I hope you know that there's people on Coast to Coast who actually heard
this and believe it to this day. Some have changed it to say the Russians use it, and
the area of our country where it ends. I always wondered where those nuts got
their information. And it probably started with a guard who believed it which means
somebody talked..

64 posted on 05/31/2015 9:10:37 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Gen.Blather
Yes, you probably wouldn't be able to get away with it today with all the avenues available for the perpetually offended to file some kind of grievance.

Is our military better as a result?

65 posted on 05/31/2015 9:12:16 AM PDT by SamAdams76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

Good clip. One problem with it though. The actual “firing command” does not contain any part of that “command” in the movie.


66 posted on 05/31/2015 9:12:20 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: Gen.Blather

That is why no sane person would work in an environment like in your examples. As that environment started to form in the workforce I removed myself from any job that held those traps. It limited my choices, but it has made my life much easier.
I grew up around the Navy, bases and hangars and knew all the pranks before I ever joined. I never participated in the games once in the service, but understand their utility.


67 posted on 05/31/2015 9:17:24 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: MaxMax

That’s too funny! I remember back in the E club we’d whisper about this submarine base over pitchers of 3.2 beer. Urban myths always start somewhere and I just might have played a role in starting this particular one.


68 posted on 05/31/2015 9:18:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

Find the box of grid squares. (Solution: a box of graph paper.)
Find the squelch grease. (Solution: a relabeled tube of neosporin.)
Find the lightbulb fluid. (Solution: can of Ronsonol, or the hideous mogas crap.)


69 posted on 05/31/2015 9:19:44 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

You did and I think it’s historically hilarious.


70 posted on 05/31/2015 9:26:10 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: Tenacious 1

Yup. Back 30+ years ago we sent a noob back to the shop for a brick stretcher. Sent another to the lumber store for a sky hook.


71 posted on 05/31/2015 9:28:56 AM PDT by brewer1516
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ExpatGator

That’s what I figured. Thanks.


72 posted on 05/31/2015 9:31:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

I remember the left handed smoke shifter when I was in the boy scouts mid 70’s.


73 posted on 05/31/2015 9:38:08 AM PDT by HBAR223
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExpatGator
ASROC In-flight Maintenance Tech??? ROFLMAO! Reminds me of this!


74 posted on 05/31/2015 9:38:26 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

I had a Motor Sergeant send a new LT (an Aggie, of course)to ask the Battalion’s Maintenance Chief (a grizzled CW4) for a can of muzzle break.

He later asked the LT when he wanted to schedule the platoon’s M113s in for changing the winter air out of the roadwheels...


75 posted on 05/31/2015 9:42:21 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Flick Lives
And here's your blinker fluid. Synthetic, even:


76 posted on 05/31/2015 9:42:57 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

See my previous; superior to your non-synthetic dino-fluid!


77 posted on 05/31/2015 9:43:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

Someone has to get the mail buoy. And for God’s sake, don’t mix the summer air with the winter air in the tires. That’s how they go flat.


78 posted on 05/31/2015 9:44:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine
At Domino's, we once sent a new girl on a delivery. The address and phone number on the box were for our actual store. We watched her drive back and forth in front of the store for about 15 minutes, then she called the number to ask the 'customer' for directions. When she got 'Thank you for calling Domino's Pizza', she figured it out.

She was NOT happy when she came back in.

79 posted on 05/31/2015 10:00:23 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Youtube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

Exactly! Of course that came to mind then.


80 posted on 05/31/2015 10:06:09 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-105 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson