When I was in the Marine Corps, we would send people out to different platoons to ask the platoon SGT if they had any GRID SQUARES.

Anyone know what they are?

 

Lets see, in the Army I saw or heard of the following

Box of Grid Squares
Chemlight batteries
Blinker fluid
Send someone to Commo for a 'PRC E-7"
Change the air in the tires from winter air to summer air
50' of flightline
Keys to the airgate
Left haned you name it

 

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OMG - good times. I miss the CORPS

 

Yeah, there are some things that I definately miss about being in. It's something that you have to experience to sppreciate.

I always wanted to be sent for a box of gridsquares, I was going to cut up a map and bring it back in a box.

 

When I was in the Air Force and got to my first duty station, they did the same things to me. I had a guy that had gotten there about 6 months before me and he pulled me to the side and told me what they were going to try to do. They sent me out for 500 feet of flight line, a gallon of prop wash, all of that stuff. I would leave in the morning and be gone until lunch, the whole time they were laughing it up. Then after lunch, they would send me back out for something else and laugh when i left. Little did they know that I was going back to my room and watching TV for hours at a time and then show up all dismayed. It was great!

 

"Fire Mission!" ring a bell Jamz?

 

Monkey,

I tried that when I was in Okinawa. (MCAS FUTENMA) My platoon COMMANDER caught me.

Well, needless to say, I was running the flight line.

 

I guess i was just lucky then! Good days, I miss them....

 

Exactly. It was really hard work at times, but man I miss the brotherhood of a platoon, and a company. When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton - 1st Mar Div, 1st CEB, Charlie Company, I had a family while away from home. It was wonderful.

 

In High School our school had a huge concrete block support tower in the 2 story library and we used to sell elevator passes to the freshmen!

I worked in a cube jungle for a few years and one of the best pranks was to take scotch tape (the clear kind) and tape just the top of the hand set to the base. there are too many others to list here.

my father in law pulls a great one on waitress' in breakfast joints, when she brings the food to the table he will pick up a piece of toast and act very dissapointed, when she asks what's wrong he will tell her the toast was buttered on the wrong side!! the longer you keep a straight face the better. it's really funny if you can get them to take it back to the kitchen to have it changed!

 

I just thought of one..

When I was in tech school, we lived in 3 story barracks. A guy that was about a month ahead of our flight had gotten in trouble for telling some newbies that in case of a fire drill if you were on the 3rd floor that you needed to push your mattress out the window and jump, and hope you land on it. Well, a guy did it and sprained his ankle. Pretty funny site to see some idiot pushing his mattress out and then overshooting it, he just could stick the landing. I didnt see it, but its funny anyway!!

 

i work in a pretty large office, i also have alot of oak trees in my yard. (this will make sense in a minute).

for about 3 years in a row, a ton of acorns were dropping from the trees in the fall. what i started then was to take 3 or 4 every day to work with me.

i started leaving them in various places around the office. some in peoples mailboxes, on top of a water cooler, or behind people's pc's.

the longer i did it, the more creative i got in where i put them.

it took several months, but slowly the talk started. i would walk past some people on the floor and hear them talking about the acorns. some people were trying to figure out who was doing it, and pointing blame at who they thought it was. wasnt till about a year ago that i told a few people it was me. it was funny to see their reactions (no, i am not crazy, but it was funny to hear them say 'holy crap, that was you, i was wondering where they were coming from...')

i havent done it for the past 2 years, but i got a real kick out of it while it was going on. it was usually from august till october (while supplies lasted).

 

Yup, those are great & still work well. We sent an LT to the mayor's cell asking for a box of grid squares. Needless to say they busted up laughing....especially funny since we were a medical unit & the mayor's cell was combat arms..... kinda rolled their eyes & thought NURSES!

In the O.R., it's fun to send a new tech looking for the otis elevator. There are tons of different elevators, but that's the one you RIDE in!!!

Or filling the surgeon's gloves with ky, so when they slide their hand in.......yuck!!

wow, I can go on & on. I love pranks

 

I'm in construction and there is always a porta-john on the job site. You can have loads of fun with these. Usuallywait for someone to go in and then drop a good size rock down the vent shaft. That leaves them with a nice blue a$$. Back in December I was driving a forklift when I saw one of the guys on my crew head in with some reading material. I waited a few minutes and then drove up and picked the porta-john up. I was just gonna scare him a bit but he stood up and started freaking out. Him moving around caused it to fall off the forks. Of course it lands on the door, so now he's trapped inside. We rolled it over and he came popping out. Thank god it had just been cleaned and he was only cover in the blue liquid. He wasn't to mad because I let him go home and paid him for the day. Ahh, the fun on a construction site.

Joe

 

the guys that live across the street from us at school always pull their pickups up close to their garage doors and their front bumpers are about 2 feet from their big trash cans. So one day im like...bumper...trash can....8 feet of rope....hehe
Reverse the next morning leaves trash/beer cans everywhere....