Not really a new guy trick, but the Air Force had a great tradition of messing around with guys at their stag party‘s...which were usually held the night before their wedding.
One guy in Trenton (big Air Transport base) didn‘t ask why his stag was moved from the evening to the afternoon. He should have. He was plied with liquor (big surprise) and by supper time he was pretty much out of business. He slept. When he awoke, it was just as the Hercules he was riding in touched down...at Thule, Greenland!
Needless to say, he was just a little concerned.. however, he was able to "arrange" transport on another Herc which just happened to be leaving Thule for Trenton shortly after he arrived. (The other Herc on the ground was aware of his situation, carefull checks of the weather had been made before, and a "risk assesment" cleared the Operation!)
Buddy made it back to Trenton (just) in time, and a good laugh was had by all the rest of us as we partied in the Mess while he flew to Thule.
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Another good one was to Eugene "X". We were over in germany and got a killer deal at canex on Seiko divers watches- there must have been 15 of us bought them. (This was at the time when the Military had gone through three or four different types of watches for supply). Got back, and one of the guys saw the QM Cpl "Dave" wearing the Seiko. "Nice watch" he said. "Yup, in the system now, can ya believe it?" replied Dave. Of course, Eugene didn‘t believe Dave...who promptly went around telling all the rest of us what he‘d done. I was the third or fourth Seiko owner that Eugene queried, and when I (like all the rest) said, yes, got it from supply, can you believe it!! he was hooked. Over went Eugene to supply to get his new Seiko. Of course, he had to turn his old one in....and unfortunately it was still running. He near lost it when the Dave said "sorry Eugene, I can‘t give you a new watch as this ones still working"...got even worse when the SQMS (in on the scam) came in and said "and your watch had better not break suddenly either".
Good to watch poor Eugene lose his mind over a shiny new watch...LOL
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I‘ve also had a brand new Lt stand at attention as the WO and I (Tp Cpl at the time) argued over me not wanting to sign a loan card for the issue (to me) of "one x troop leader, sin #...." and in the fwiw file, the same LT ended up being a fine Regimental CO...
Cheers-Garry