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10thzodiac
05-01-07, 08:15 PM
Does anybody have any funny pranks in the squad bay or wherever ?
This was a favorite:
Close to lights out there was always a few Marines already asleep and perfect targets for this prank.
About 2150 (9:50 PM) we'd change the clock in the squad bay to 0500 (5 AM), turn the lights out, act like we are all sleeping and have the duty come in an start yelling reveille turning the lights on and shaking a few racks, theirs http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/24.gif
We would all act like it was time to get up and encourage the early sleepers to get moving. They would get their shaving gear and make their way to the head.
After they shaved and came back ready to go, they would find everybody asleep, the clock a little past 2200 (10+ PM)
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Once in Pendleton's lower 16 area, a bunch of us Marines carried a early sound sleeper, his rack and all from the second floor and put him out in the middle of our basketball ball court behind the barracks. He said he woke up early in the morning because he was getting cold.
Once on his own sleepwalking in the dark, he went down to the rec room and used the pool table for his rack. He told me he got cold there too, the pool cover wasn't warm enough. When he woke up and saw the Coke machine he couldn't figure out where he was...
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yellowwing
05-01-07, 10:08 PM
LMAO! I'll have to check on the Statute of Limitations to tell you some real good ones! :banana:
SkilletsUSMC
05-01-07, 10:41 PM
Does anybody have any funny pranks in the squad bay or wherever ?
This was a favorite:
Close to lights out there was always a few Marines already asleep and perfect targets for this prank.
About 2150 (9:50 PM) we'd change the clock in the squad bay to 0500 (5 AM), turn the lights out, act like we are all sleeping and have the duty come in an start yelling reveille turning the lights on and shaking a few racks, theirs
We would all act like it was time to get up and encourage the early sleepers to get moving. They would get their shaving gear and make their way to the head.
After they shaved and came back ready to go, they would find everybody asleep, the clock a little past 2200 (10+ PM)
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Once in Pendleton's lower 16 area, a bunch of us Marines carried a early sound sleeper, his rack and all from the second floor and put him out in the middle of our basketball ball court behind the barracks. He said he woke up early in the morning because he was getting cold.
Once on his own sleepwalking in the dark, he went down to the rec room and used the pool table for his rack. He told me he got cold there too, the pool cover wasn't warm enough. When he woke up and saw the Coke machine he couldn't figure out where he was...
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We used to occasionally be allowed to clean rifles in the squad bad and it never failed that somebody would doze off with disassembled rifle in lap and surrounded by cleaning gear. We would all quietly stand with assembled rifles and come to the position of attention and the nearest Marine would yell at the top of his lungs squadbay ten hut,and everyone else would start yelling attention on deck, as though an officer had just entered. The poor lad would open his eyes and see everyone at attention and launch into a mad scramble. It was fun ;)
Dave Coup
05-02-07, 07:42 AM
Nothing like a good 'Short Sheet' for a Marine coming in from Liberty with a few too many on board.
SF Dave
10thzodiac
05-02-07, 08:53 AM
Here is one I never participated in, but when things got real boring some of the guys would remove most of the springs on someones rack that held his mattress up http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/34.gif
There was always this oldie, while someone was catching a cat nap in their rack, fill their hand up with shaving cream then position a string so that it would fall on their face while you pulled it at a safe distance, which would tickle their nose and face when pulled across. Better yet, beforehand tie their boots together and to the top and end of their rack.
Then run like hell ! I almost knocked our E-8 Gunny over while giggling like a girl busting through the squad bay swinging doors as he was coming in. As I looked back I can still picture the gunny looking in disbelief at my victim with shaving cream all over his face, feet up in the air laying on the deck rolling around with his mouth open disorientated.
The butt of my prank thought it was so funny, later when I was in my utilities sitting on the crapper in the middle of a good dump, he paid me back with a big bucket of cold water over the side http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/11.gif
It was all in fun http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/04.gif
We used to tell the new guys that they couldn't ride in a 6 by or 5 ton until they were 6 by qualified and we needed to get that done asap. To be 6 by qualled you had to be able to jump out of a 6 by blindfolded. We would get a length of board for the lad to stand on then the tallest Marine in the unit for him to rest his hand on. Blind fold on; hand resting on shoulder of tall Marine; tall Marine slowly lowers down while two holders wobble and pretend that the board is raising. About 2 inches off the ground tall Marine steps away. Ok you are now exactly the same height as the gate on a 5 ton. Ready .... Jump LMAO
marinegreen
05-02-07, 08:57 AM
A another good one was when a guy feel asleep on his rack with his boots on we would tie his boot laces to the end of his rack and yell "Squadbay- Attention !" 9 x's outta 10 they would be half dangling off their racks.
MG
crate78
05-02-07, 09:03 AM
This isn't exactly squad bay, but..............
Marines can be very creative in their amusements when they have time on their hands.
I once rode the MSTS troop ship U.S.S. Breckenridge from San Diego, California to Japan. As anyone who has been there and done that knows, it’s about two and a half weeks of sheer boredom without even a glimpse of land. The troop’s heads on the Breckenridge each had a couple of rows of about a dozen stools back to back Instead of each stool having an individual flush mechanism, there was simply a trough under each row of stools running from one end of the row to the other with a continuous stream of water running through the trough.
At the right time of day when most of the stools were occupied, it was great sport to set fire to a big wad of toilet paper, drop it into the upstream end of the trough--and run for your life!
crate
drumcorpssnare
05-02-07, 09:16 AM
While at the Field Music School at Parris Island, 1972, I got back to the squadbay one night just after "lights out." When I got to my rack, I was overwhelmed by the odor of "chit." After a couple minutes of investigating, I found my ceramic beer stein in my footlocker, full of "chit" !!! Also, there was dry laundry detergent in the stein.
It only took a few seconds to realize who had "pranked" me.
I took the stein, went to "his" bunk, lifted his pillow, and shook the contents of the beer stein onto his rack. Then I placed the pillow back on the rack.
I went in the head, cleaned my beer stein thoroughly, stowed it back in my footlocker, and hit the rack.
Just a few minutes later, the "prankster" came in the squadbay, dropped onto his rack, face-down, and put his hands under his pillow.
Next thing I heard was, "EEEeeeeww!" (But, not another word!)
He tore his rack apart, and took his sheets into the shower.
Next morning he said, "We're even, right?"
drumcorpssnare:usmc:
While on barracks duty I used to enjoy night diving for lobsters and would gladly take anyone along that was certified and wanted to go. MWR provided all equipment needed except air and I had a hook for getting tanks filled so we dove often.
We would come in around midnight and turn all them spiney lobsters loose in someones room, and turn on the lights, then yell holy crap that is the biggest cockroach I have ever seen!! Toss a couple in the rack with hapless sleeping lad and watch the fun. After a few times of this we would find butter and napkins on the rack and our boot out working up a fire. ;)
He never dove with us but he sure liked lobster after that. I've never met anyone so afraid of bugs and a giant cockroach was his worst nightmare.
10thzodiac
05-02-07, 09:41 AM
The first ship I was ever on, the USS Tulare as we came up out of the galley after breakfast a couple of characters from my outfit set up an orange crate with the words "Sea Bat" written on it. They had some lettuce and were pretending feeding it. Every so often they would jump back as if tried to bite them.
They were even getting sailors to fall for it http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/18.gif Here come this Navy butter bars and the Marines were afraid to whack an officer with the broom in the butt (Sea Bat) when he bent over trying to see what unbeknown to him wasn't there. One of the sailor's took the broom and nailed his ass !!!
Here comes a Marine Lieutenant and by then there is a big crowd of sailors and Marines watching this. The Marine LT fell for it and the Navy Ensign took the broom and gave him the Sea Bat http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/04.gif
The best is for last, a Marine Major comes up from the galley and bends over to see the sea bat, the Marine Lieutenant couldn't resist http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Laughing/lol-049.gif
I remember the Major shaking his finger at the lieutenant, I could tell the the lieutenant didn't give a sh!t and thought it was funny and would do it again no regrets.
Operation Green Light 1961, one of the largest peacetime maneuvers in Marine Corps history.
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killerinstinct
05-02-07, 09:50 AM
Nothing like a good 'Short Sheet' for a Marine coming in from Liberty with a few too many on board.
SF Dave
LOL.. that was my favorite one of them all.. We did tht to someone one time and it was funny as hell right before taps he was tryign to get under his sheets and couldnt ended up curling in the ball because the drill instructor was wondering wtf was happening... I think this by far is one of the best jokes. Though we have put a **** load of foot poowder in boots before too and they put them on and you see this cloud of white smoke go all over the place.. HAHA seems like the best jokes and games all come from the Corps
or one weekend we went all around the bks getting screens, bikes anything not nailed down and piled it all in this guys room since he passed out drunk and left it unlocked and you ehard the next morning him yelling and saw **** flying out the door. i think it ook him bout an hour or two to get out of there
jetdawgg
05-02-07, 10:04 AM
I sent my buddy in boot camp an envelope full of porno pics. Large enough so that the DI would open the envelope.
He got PT'd to death and I know the DI's enjoyed the porno pics:D .They were very explicit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He wanted to kill me when he got home from PISC:D
All of our Newbies at HQ 1/11 had to qualify with the ax. (If you're gonna operate a tactical vehicle, you have to know how to handle the Pioneer Gear right?). The Comm Shack had railroad ties around the parking area where you would lead said Newbie to qualify. (Qualifying with the ax MUST be done blindfolded.) Hand the young Marine an ax, place a quarter on railroad tie and let the Newbie set his reach, distance, etc. and tell him that he needs to be blindfolded so, "here, let me hold your cover so you don't screw it up swinging that ax with a blindfold on." Let him rest the ax on the quarter, blindfold him and, when he picks up the ax you place his cover over the quarter. If on the first swing the cover isn't hanging on the ax blade they get 5 swings to get it right. Reporting qualification scores is ALWAYS done from a distance though.
10thzodiac
05-02-07, 03:09 PM
All of our Newbies at HQ 1/11 had to qualify with the ax. (If you're gonna operate a tactical vehicle, you have to know how to handle the Pioneer Gear right?). The Comm Shack had railroad ties around the parking area where you would lead said Newbie to qualify. (Qualifying with the ax MUST be done blindfolded.) Hand the young Marine an ax, place a quarter on railroad tie and let the Newbie set his reach, distance, etc. and tell him that he needs to be blindfolded so, "here, let me hold your cover so you don't screw it up swinging that ax with a blindfold on." Let him rest the ax on the quarter, blindfold him and, when he picks up the ax you place his cover over the quarter. If on the first swing the cover isn't hanging on the ax blade they get 5 swings to get it right. Reporting qualification scores is ALWAYS done from a distance though.
This must of been a 11th Marines thing ! I'm still mad at the ******* that played a similar prank on me in '61 in Lima Battery. It wasn't as sophisticated, he just told me to see how hard a could hit some canvas with a hammer on the comm shack concrete floor, unbeknown to me my new cover was under the spot I was to hit. I never liked that SOB that set me up, he's fcuking lucky he went to the stumps before I made corporal.
I'm still p!ssed http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/12.gif
Zulu 36
05-02-07, 05:42 PM
This was an Air National Guard prank worthy of the Marines I thought.
Duct tape a highly intoxicated person into their rack while passed out. Great fun in the morning, or even sooner if they had to get up to pee.
When we went to the Army Guard bases to use firing ranges, my commanding officer (a major) slept in the same old WWII barracks with the rest of the unit. Sometimes he had a few too many Black Russians of an evening. You would think after the second time for certain he'd watch his consumption level. Noooope. Of course it was the senior NCOs who were guilty of felonious duct tape usage.
I thought it would be funny if we ordered pizza delivered to the squadbay for the Drill Instructors on Liberty Sunday...never did do it though.
While training at camp Fuji we had a lieutenant go to the field missing half his gear and bumming crap off the troops. I was the guide. The platoon sergeant said LT sleep in the rain and next time bring all your crap. I said I'll cover for the Lieutenant I have an extra poncho and will even help him pack his pack tomarrow so that it will travel better and be more comfortable. Gave the SSgt a wink and he knew what I meant. :sick:
Next morning had the lieutenant's pack squared away and ship shape and he gave me my poncho back. It took him nearly 20 miles to figure out that there was nothing in his pack but 2 big rocks and a sand bag full of sand. The dam thing must have weighed a hundred pounds. I carried one of those rocks in my pack the rest of deployment and the plt sgt carried the other. It was worth it :p