Happy April Fools Day!

While I was stationed at Fort Gordon, Ga last year for training, the army guys and marines were always pulling pranks on each other. My favorite was, early one morning we flipped everything in the marine smoke pit upside down, tables, benches, trash cans, the whole lot. The next morning, we woke up on a Saturday, and our smoke pit was nowhere to be found. We located it later that morning, moved about a half mile away, on the far side of the PT field. Set up stone for stone exactly as it was on our grounds. What made it even funnier, was that we had cadre from a different unit on duty that day, and he kept yelling at us when we tried moving it back "that is NOT where your smoke pit is supposed to be!!"

On Camp Pendleton, the buildings (used to be) are arranged by Area and Order they were built, as opposed to traditional # Street Name format that most civilians are used to.

So a building in Camp Horno (Area 53) would be 53XXX. What's bad is that buildings were build in sort of a weird layout. So the HQ buildings would be 530001-5, whereas the chowhall was 530010, the Gym (an old chowhall) was x11, and the barracks had sequentially higher numbers. But Barracks were on their 5-6th "refresh" by the time I got there, so, there were "holes" in the numbering, and two buildings sitting next to each other would have sequential numbers.

If you wanted to screw around with a boot, you'd tell him to go to a specific building. Hopefully one that didn't exist anymore, and check in with Sgt 'Ski (intentionally leaving off the first part of the last name).

As an Air Force Material Management guy that took expedite orders for aircraft...the whole ordering Flight Line and Jet Wash was a regular occurrence on the new folks. :)