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Reminds me of some of our old military days pranks. We would send new guys on a goose chase to get a can of purple prop wash...and since everyone knew of it (except the newbs) they would all play along and say they were all out and send them to the next place! Or during plane launches we would send them in to get the mech's to come out and service the pneumatic fluid.
Ah, the good old days before the military got all politically correct.
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The two I recall where the intermittent ASH receivers in our reconassance planes. Noobs could never find where they were installed!Originally Posted by Triathlete
Reminds me of some of our old military days pranks. We would send new guys on a goose chase to get a can of purple prop wash...and since everyone knew of it (except the newbs) they would all play along and say they were all out and send them to the next place! Or during plane launches we would send them in to get the mech's to come out and service the pneumatic fluid.
Ah, the good old days before the military got all politically correct.
Occassionally we would have a B-1-RD land on our airstrip! If you've never seen the B-1-RD I feels sorry for you!
Nowadays, I have to troubleshoot ID-10-t errors at work!
Gregg
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Best one was having them test the cockpit to birdcage communication system (ie. pisstube). Of course you could never hear them so you would have them hold it closer to their mouth and talk louder
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I always enjoyed sending the new troops for left handed wrenches,... pretty sure I was a young troop and went,... yep, sure did.Reminds me of some of our old military days pranks. We would send new guys on a goose chase to get a can of purple prop wash...and since everyone knew of it (except the newbs) they would all play along and say they were all out and send them to the next place! Or during plane launches we would send them in to get the mech's to come out and service the pneumatic fluid.
Ah, the good old days before the military got all politically correct.
Remember when I first got to Thailand in 69, had trained on RF-4C, got assigned to the Triple Nickel D model, all those bombs. Been there maybe two weeks, Max effort, 18 F-4D's loaded with 11 CBU-56's each, max takeoff like a WWII movie, but two took off early with Suu23 and rocket pods, didn't know why so asked the the old crew chief how come. He said they were loaded with baht, (Thai money) and would drop it and the bad guys would come out of the caves in Laos to pick it up and two waves of F-4D's would put a hurt'in on them. Found out later they were FAC's, one was a airborne spare, yea, they had a good laugh on the new guy,... me.
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