Prop Wash

[sparky9]

When I was younger, much younger, I got sent for some "rod grease" because my welding rod was sticking. It was my first day. The guy in the tool room told me to just walk around for an hour and then tell those SOB's that they were out.
I returned the favor years later by convincing a guy that he had won the 20 million lottery, among several other things that weren't too nice.

 

[zercool]

Scout camp many moons ago, we'd send guys looking for keys to the oarlocks...

 

[sigp220.45]

We would send new cops to the base hospital to get fallopian tubes for the Breathalyzer.

 

[n4zov]

Our local fire department sends rookies to the top of the raised ladder truck on nighttime "fire watch." They provide them with a radio to report the fires.

 

[RonJ]

We sent guys out to the maintenance shed to get a LRPD. They were usually under a pile of broken radios and parts. LRPD = little round paper disk.

 

[conn ak]

Originally posted by sigp220.45:
We would send new cops to the base hospital to get fallopian tubes for the Breathalyzer.

So.....did they find them?

 

[oldRoger]

I don't think anyone has mentioned "skyhooks" always essentialy for maintenance jobs.

 

[lcdrdanr]

Batteries for the sound powered phones.
Some chow line for mid rats
Standing lookout for the mail bouy at sea

Worst thing was on an FFG we had a disconnected pump attached to the front bulkhead of the fireroom, all that was left was a shaft sticking through with a handle attached, pretty stiff and hard to turn. Told a boot it was for cranking down the periscope on the mack (mirrors used to see if smoke is coming out of the stacks) so it didn't hit the bridge during sea detail coming up the Cooper River in Charleston, SC.
That poor kid cranked and cranked trying to get the "periscope" down before the bridge, then cranked the other way trying to get it back up after going under the bridge. I'm not sure how many months it took for him to catch on, he wasn't one of the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Dan R

 

[deadin]

One of the better ones I didn't see, but was told of was the brand new Bull Ensign that was assigned to the Sub my buddy was on. He was assigned as the division officer of one of the units on the sub. A couple of the guys in the division pointed out one of the watertight phones in their compartment as the officers phone that was to be used to report such things as "battle stations manned", etc. They also had glued a vernier fine tuning dial to the door of the phone and told him that it was "secure" phone and had to have the 5 number combination dialed in to open it. The poor guy would carefully dial in all the numbers and the door would open.
He was always the last division to report in that his stations were "manned and ready".

 

[truckemup97]

I convinced another (obviously rookie) driver that Freightliner was hiring spark plug installers at their plant. He called and asked about the job. He also didn't talk to me for a couple of weeks.

Every once in a while I'll hear someone on the CB radio say, "Hey Swift, your fifth wheel is flat." Anyone know where to get air put in your fifth wheel?

 

[jcliff]

Sent one young SP to see the nurse at the medical center to pick up a philopian tube for the breathalyzer.

 

[benmcc]

go to the motor pool and get the snow chains for the tanks out. lots of rust on 'em, and they'll need cleaning. or go get some squelch juice for the radios.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I get my prop wash and relative bearing grease at my local NAPA store! Great thread guy's, I needed a good laugh.

 

[okie john]

A buddy of mine was in the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg. He used to send new privates to the Battalion Sergeant Major to get the keys to Area G, which is enormous and unfenced.

The SGM got tired of this after a while, called my buddy into his office and jacked him up for wasting people's time. My buddy replied, "What's the matter, Sergeant Major? Didn't he bring them back?"

Almost lost a stripe for that.


Okie John