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eric_bean34
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Re: practical jokes
Posted: 27 Oct 06 1:55 PM
Mail Buoy Watch- send a wetling to the front of the ship wearing a lifejacket and harness and a tow hook so he can keep an eye out for mail bags.....they did get me on a 1gal. can of rotorwash tho. since i never worked around a helo before
Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: practical jokes
Posted: 28 Oct 06 1:15 AM

 Finucane wrote
Now THAT is some story! 

All I ever did was duct tape a freshman to a cealing corner. Was a blast. Got in so much trouble. Freshman was expelled because of what prompted us to do it. DON'T START FIGHTS WITH IRISH/POLISH HALF BREEDS!
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Re: practical jokes
Posted: 23 Dec 06 9:18 AM

 Finucane wrote
No, I was a common, garden-variety old sergeant major.

I doubt that, I have never meet a Sergeant Major that was common much less came from a garden.  And I never met a young SGM ethier.  You really got to know your stuff to get that star.
Finucane
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Re: practical jokes
Posted: 24 Dec 06 3:44 AM
That's true of a lot of them but I got mine because I hung around so long they just fell on me one day when I wasn't looking.  That is true about the age, I never knew a top sergeant who wasn't, to my way of thinking, grizzled and salty but these days I read the bios of sergeants major who weren't even in the army when I retired and think, "Boy, they're makin' 'em younger and younger these days!"
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Re: practical jokes
Posted: 24 Dec 06 5:45 PM
One Sunday night when I was with the Fourth Marines at Kanehoe Bay in Hawaii, a buddy and I were hanging out in the barracks because we didn't have enough money to go to Waikiki for a proper liberty. Needless to say, we got bored. Then we noticed these two boots who had just joined us, fresh from Boot Camp and Infantry Training Regiment. Just to have something to do for a couple of minutes, we sent them to the Headquarters, Service, and Supply Company duty NCO to pick up a sky hook that we were going to need in a training exercise scheduled for Monday.

They went, and came back shortly to tell us the HS&S duty NCO told him he didn't have one, it was on loan to second battalion. So we sent them to second battalion to get it.

We subsequently sent them to first battalion and the artillery battalion. Naturally, they came back empty handed each time. And it got progressively harder to convince them that a sky hook really existed. Finally, we sent them to hanger 105, which was the most remote location on base.

While they were gone we decided they were going to be really pissed off when they got back. Considering that they were both bigger than us, we decided we actually did have enough money on us to take some Waikiki liberty and headed off base.
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