Find new guy on crew, tell him &quot;I need the battery for that screw gun quick, go turn up the speed on the charger&quot;.<br><br>Most of them know now not to go looking for the &quot;board stretcher&quot; or &quot;cable stretcher&quot;, so had to come up with a new one.<br><br>Rob

 

I had a fellow helping me pull wire in a building I was working on. I took the drill with the auger bit and showed him how to drill through a stud, then asked him to move on down the wall with it. But as I handed it to him I flicked the drill in reverse ;D<br> He proceeded to smoke the end of the bit so I showed him again, putting the drill back in forward and zipping though the stud, before handing it back in reverse. He could not drill a hole <br> I did this quite a few times till I finally told him we needed to find something simpler for him <br> Yes he was ticked off when he finally realised he had been straining and grunting against a backwards drill bit. ;D

 

[quote author=SFtopSGT link=board=10;threadid=8334;start=0#80462 date=1039925663]<br>I had a fellow helping me pull wire in a building I was working on. I took the drill with the auger bit and showed him how to drill through a stud, then asked him to move on down the wall with it. But as I handed it to him I flicked the drill in reverse ;D<br> He proceeded to smoke the end of the bit so I showed him again, putting the drill back in forward and zipping though the stud, before handing it back in reverse. He could not drill a hole <br> I did this quite a few times till I finally told him we needed to find something simpler for him <br> Yes he was ticked off when he finally realised he had been straining and grunting against a backwards drill bit. ;D<br>[/quote]<br>Did you check to make sure it wasn't made for lefty's?<br>After sending the new guys around for left handed hammers, he would have them tap the sides of the armor vehicles and listen for soft spots. If the vehicle checked ok, they would have to jump up and down on top of the vehicle so we could test track tension. &quot; A little higher, it's not moving yet!&quot;

 

Even better, we had to take a JROTC class on a night land nav course. I was in the back preventing stragglers, and after awhile I saw people towards the front high stepping over the same spot. They would do this every so often in different areas, but nothing was there. I've seen this before and could't believe how long it was going on. I had problems holding it in every time the kid in front of me would turn and point to the ground indicating for me to step over something. Someone finally spoke up and asked what we were stepping over. The sergent said, &quot;Grid lines, if you step on'em you'll mess everything up and we'll be lost!&quot;<br><br>&quot;He said they're grid lines, don't step on'em!&quot;

 

On our training ship we had all kinds of fun. Some of the things we used to send the gars looking for:<br>-keys to the sea chest<br>-the water hammer<br>-left handed monkey wrench<br>-relative bearing grease<br>-50' or shore line<br>-a quart of pneumatic fluid<br>-a bucket of steam<br>-and we can never forget standing out on the bow in the shiniest summer whites with a boathook to get the mail buoy.<br><br>I know there are others I've forgotten, so if you think of them, please help me out.<br><br>-SFB

 

We also use to send 'em all over for a cannon report. They would finally make it to the 1st sgt who would look 'em square in the I and say &quot;Boom!&quot;<br><br>In the scouts we sent'em for smoke shifter for the camp fire.<br>Snipe Hunts.

 

Ah yes! The infamous snipe hunt. I was a victim of that once (dang uncle), but on the training ship all you had to do was go to the engineroom. Snipe is the nickname for an engineer.<br><br>-SFB

 

We srink wrapped a buddies trailer house with hime in it one night. That was pretty fun watching him trying to get out the door after I started to do a bigg smokey braketorque in his driveway. <br><br>About a month later I had every tree in my yard toilet papered. I have about 50 trees in my back yard. :'( :'(<br>I supose I deserved that one though. <br><br>DB

 

Hey SFB.......how about SEA BATS?? <br><br>Chip <br>retired coastie

 

Being in the Air Force and working on planes the first one pulled on newby's was, go get me some Prop Wash.

 

[quote author=CHUCK3 link=board=10;threadid=8334;start=0#80561 date=1039968110]<br> Being in the Air Force and working on planes the first one pulled on newby's was, go get me some Prop Wash. <br>[/quote]<br><br>....and 100 yds of &quot;flight Line&quot;

 

&quot; Go see the female corpsman for 20 feet of filopian tube&quot; ???<br><br>PISTOL

 

My toolie decided to take a &quot;personal&quot; break in the porta pottie. Released the brake on the van we were in and rolled it silently up to the door of the pottie. Quietly left the area and watch the rockin' pottie from a few feet away.

 

sea bats? I haven't heard that one before.<br><br>-SFB