box of grid squares
 

Those of you that spent any time in the military probably remember being sent off on a mission to get a box of grid squares or to check the armor on a vehicle with a ball-peen hammer. More or less picking on the new guy who doesnt know anything yet. I never really cared for this, probably because it happened to me.

Anyway, I just run into a brand new 2nd Lieutenant who was driving around post looking for the "free ice" point. I had a feeling his CO was messing with him as 1. no such place exists on the post I work at and 2. the poor kid didnt have a cooler or anyhting to put the ice in.

So I had him follow me back to my building where we have a big ice maker. We loaded up about 200 pounds of ice in trash bags and put it in the back of his Humvee. I hope his commander is waiting for the 2LT to show up with nothing but the look of defeat on his face... :)

Ha that's great!

You, and the opportunity to do what you did, are why I stayed in the military 26 years...beautiful stuff.

And that Lt will always remember you for taking care of him!

I got sent out to get 25 feet of flight line. Knew the drill, went to the movies, did it for two days. Let them in on the secret on the third day.

Still lookin for that gallon of prop wash and the left handed monkey wrench.....

Bicycle shops version of it is to have them sort out ball bearing to find the Campy branded ones with the "c" stamped in them.

Auto parts stores, I had a manager that used to ask people to look up a boobalater valve. I didn't fall for that one, but later on, we used to call about radiator caps and cooling system components for bugs and corvairs and that sort of thing.

We put in a req for plaid paint. The purchaser searched for quite a while before he figured it out.

I got out as soon as my commitment was over because of stupid BS like this. I was serious about being a professional engineer and I was with a bunch of yahoos who thought we were in summer camp. I wonder what our military could do if they took their jobs seriously.

We had had a new project manager here looking for a metric crescent wrench one time....

What's sad is that such a thing actually exists now! :rolleyes:

I remember the box of grid squares and the liquid squelch.

I still have not found that 100 foot of water line yet.

In the boy scouts it was the "left handed smoke shifter" and "Snipe hunting"

In the printing industry they use a bunch of color patches printed on the paper and it's called a "color bar".
Smart a$$ press operators will paint a yard stick multi-colored and tell the new guy "the head of the department needs this color bar right now, RUN!" Too funny.

at the airline, we had new flight attendants go ask the ramp people for the keys to the airplane. ..or we'd give them a garbage bag and ask them to collect an air sample from the cabin.

When I was a projectionist it was the elusive film stretcher.

I left the Navy in 1986. I never stood mail buoy watch or got fooled by the sea bat.

I do however want to offer this nla service part for you British car owners:

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Hinge for a gate valve.
Jim

When I was in High School a teacher used to send difficult students from class to class looking for a "long stand" . By the time they made the rounds both teacher and student had the needed break.

I can't believe no one's mentioned blinker fluid and muffler bearings yet. -J

Hey Ensign, go forward and pick up some extra batteries for our sound powered phones.

I'm an engineer, the best project that I've been on was a military program with a bunch of yahoo fighter pilots. We had a great time and accomplished some amazing things. Summer camp isn't so bad....

I work in printing, (have been for ages) so it's been a long time since someone sent me on a run for 'half-tone dots'.

Cow-tipping.

When I was a kid a guy at my dad's office bought a new car, all the men go out in the parking lot at lunch to see it, Hey, start her up!

The guy knows nothing about cars, one coworker takes advantage of that fact and convinces him that it sounds like he needs to get his gear ratios checked ASAP.

They adjourn to the office and squelch their laughter as the guy's on the phone with the dealer service writer.

Then there's always, Have you put winter air in your tires yet?

710 cap

Wife and MIL filled the hole that the 710 cap covers full!





Of water.

Zero weight!

A gallon bucket of start up steam and a box of 5/8 holes....

Exhaust sample from an M1 tank... Amazing how fast a trash bag melts when exposed to 800 degrees. Ask the commo NCO for a PRC E7, or a BA1100N battery.

Anyway, I would have loved to be there when the 2LT showed up with the ice.

A friend of ours was the engineer at the local TV station and had the secretary fax a dozen envelopes to another friend of ours since he was out and needed them quick. :rolleyes:

Mess duty in boot camp, I walked around for almost 12 hours one day looking for a light bulb repair kit.
My whole company had a pretty good laugh watching me walk around all day while they were scrubbing dishes.

Long weights, striped paint, skyhooks, left handed screwdrivers... You used to send the apprentice all across town looking for these things..

Now, they're lucky to get a tour of the dealership out of it...

Never got fooled by those either, but I did see many a seamen recruit stand mail bouy watch from 12am-4am... They would be standing right next to you wearing their sound powered headphones, rain poncho and general quarters helmet. Holding a long shafted gig hook to grab the mail he he.... I did fall for the "go down to the main space and ask for a BT punch" one... Around the time that they told me to go to the main space and ask for a diamond back (Dog pile you on the expanded metal floor) I had caught onto their antics and just smiled....

Ours was the Satellite Watch. I actually located one, HA!

We also came up with the Nitrogen Filled Garble Filter. Typically one uses that to fix free running teletypes.

Relative Bearing Grease

Left handed Screwdriver

Snipe hunting, while left holding the bag in the middle of the woods.
(boyscouts)

As a young machinist, I was sent to the inspection department for gage block glue and an aluminum magnet.

Cant believe none of you guys have ever filled out a Form ID-10T

Turn on the range fans to blow the fog away.

Keys to the travel lock.

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