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This did not happen during boot camp. I was in the Navy aboard a aircraft carrier. I was a boiler tech but worked with pumping the fuel to the service tanks and controlling the fresh water and boiler water. Our work shop was on the 2 second deck and the supply shop was 5 decks below.
First I'll explain a smoking lamp. It just when we are handling fuel, weapons or any thing that was dangerous if a fire started. The captain would come over the speaker saying that the smoking lamp is lit or unlit. If it was lit you could smoke.
When we get a recruit in we would play this on him. We would send him down to get a red bulb for the smoking lamp but of course their no such thing but the store room worker would play along. He would tell him that they did not have any red bulbs and go and find if any other color work. He would come up and tell us that that store did not have any red bulbs so we sent him down to get a blue bulb. the store room clerk would would tell that they was out of blue bulbs.
We did this about 3 times then when he entered the room the third we would start laughing and tell him what we did. We did have 6 in lamp that had smoking lamp printed on it. The bulb was burned out.
We also used the left handed monkey wrench.
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