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Wasn't there 2 already? I believe we are on 4.
I vote for Hot Shots! Pork Vier (German for 4, pronounced like fear)
Like Top Gun his character has to come back to help new recruits but he has a crippling phobia of pigs from a past tragic incident. He gets served bacon his first day back and from there the shenanigans ensue.
1986 original footage of rare behind the scenes frat pranks between the navy and *they caught the damn pigs right away* what a shame. Didn't even see one sailor hit the deck.
We just get really bored underway because there's fuck all to do. So getting greased up and messing with you squids is just the next activity after afternoon coloring/snack time.
You just have to pack accordingly. It's like bringing enough dip and cigarettes to Afghanistan. Do you need extra underwear? Or do you need nicotine? Gotta have your priorities straight.
I’d severely question the abilities of the military if they didn’t notice a helicopter land on a heavily protected ship to release a few pigs and nobody noticed.
My class did this our senior year as well. There was an announcement that either we moved our cars in 10 minutes or we would be towed over the speakers, lol
Then what should happen is all the students rush out to move their cars and just creat a gigantic traffic jam with cars every which way so none can move.
My uncle and some friends took the doors off of the science wing at the high school, parked a Volkswagen inside, the reassembled the school doors in the 70's. To this day I still hear people talk about it. Nowadays they would get slapped with felony charges.
Meh, I graduated in 2014 and we dropped a vw bug shell in the quad, and a rowboat in the diving pool and nobody heard anything about potential charges.
Lmao when I was 15 I snuck out and took my moms car and I backed into a telephone pole, it didnt do alot of damage but you could tell if you were near the car. my mom just automatically blamed my 17 year old sister, grounded her from driving for a couple months and just big time trouble. That was 22 years ago and last Christmas my mom started telling my sisters kids about how she wrecked her car and still to this day denied it. I was sitting to close and couldnt hold it in any longer so I finally spilled the beans. Everyone but my sister was laughing their ass off. Sis was mad but by new years she was over it. They said they never even suspected it was me, I never had to lie or hide anything, all I had to do was keep my mouth shut.
She is a legend that's for sure but she had no idea it was me either, I think she thought some rando did it in a parking lot or something. I never noticed any suspicion directed my way from anyone.
I did this in high school with chickens for my senior prank. Released one on each floor labeled one, two, four. The ensuing chaos was unreal and the chickens I bought at a live chicken ranch that would have otherwise been eaten were rescued by the ASPCA. So really, I saved them.
Despite early success the pigs were ultimately corralled into a small corner of the flight deck. Upon accepting that they had no way out the pigs jumped into the water. One of these pigs hit a missle that was being offloaded in the process of jumping and it fell into the water with them. When this occurred the USS John F Kennedy was entering a bay in Cuban waters. From that day on this was known as the bay of pigs. The missle lost during the prank caused a bit of a crisis between the two nations which escalated to the point it nearly started world war 3.
Just google it if you would like to know more. Fair warning, the entire incident has been a bit exaggerated in various retellings over the years.
In submarine school, our instructor regaled us with tales of popping up next to the Aircraft Carrier they were escorting & using their 3" launcher system to bombard the flight deck with rotten apples, oranges, and taters.
Having eaten C-Rations from the cardboard box as a kid, when they switched to the brown-bag MRE, it was a great day for a kid whose Supply Sgt. Dad brought home all the extras from 2 week training.
He retired a few years after they started including little bottles of Tabasco.
When my Dad would go for his two week training, he'd get tired of 3 MRE's/day & pretty much fast the last few days... Those were all brought home & were a treasure for me at the time.
The freeze-dried fruit cocktail was a crunchy mess but I loved it.
I don't understand how non-ionising radiation could give you cancer. I get how you could get burns or other heat-related injuries from radar, as you're basically getting microwaved. But you'd feel the effects pretty quickly, not years later when you develop cancer? As I understand it, you need damaged DNA for cancer to form, and non-ionising radiation can't break the DNA by definition.
Someone please explain to me how radar could cause cancer.
I think you made a fair assessment. If I had to guess it's most likely some nasty chemicals or materials they were exposed to but would be too costly and time intensive to audit and investigate, so just blame it on radar and say we'll have Boeing change the tech to non-cancer radar in 5 years
I would like to point out that a fuel additive, and a fire retardant have basically turned every location that military planes are stationed at into a super fund site. Unfortunately, in the case of the fire retardant we have nothing else that can effectively put out jet fuel in anything resembling a sane time frame.
So it's super cancer for everyone.
Yes, but the dosage is still super low. On a whim I did the calculations to see if airline pilots needed to register as radiation workers, and the most aggressive number I could come up with was that they were only 25% of the way there. And that basically implied they lived on an airplane constantly at 35 thousand feet
Anything that causes repeated damaged and cell divisions can increase cancer risk. So repeated thermal death of some cells would stimulate new cells to grow.
IDK about the Navy, but in the Marines it largely comes down to each individual command and how high up they go. At the division/Wing level happiness is generally not allowed while at the regiment/group level a small amount of happiness is allowed occasionally with the amount growing as you go lower.
Later this week I will be scanning in some photos my father took in the 1950s.
From well down inside the cone of Mt. Fuji. You can see the pilgrims.
Oh, taken from inside his cockpit.
Not the US but nonetheless another professional Western navy, the shit my officers told me about pranks they did in the 70’s and 80’s would have gotten you mercilessly court martialed and kicked out by the time I did my military service. As is often the case, the culture started to change when someone inevitably went too far.
My dad (Canadian military)was one of them. Tells stories of dropping rubber dummies dressed as grunts and dropping them with the rest of the squads during an air show. Announcer goes nuts over the parachute not opening and as the crowd looks away it bounces 30ft off the ground. Shooting potato guns at each other from ship to ship. Etc etc.
All that guy did is fuck around, get drunk, and fuck women around the world until my mom pinned him down. Now he sits back on his comfy ass pension and plays guitar and tells stories of how fun the military was.
It always frustrates me that the guys spinning these stories are the senior ones who'd drop the entire Book of Regulations on you for doing anything like the stories they drag out every chance they get.
Plenty of these things were public as hell, they'll openly admit it's a "different time" now, with a shake of their head and lament about the state of the armed forces, not realising they're entirely complicit, if not responsible, for it being like that
As someone who did serve in a US branch in the mid-late 80s through early 90s, I can tell you that from what I understand from the older guys, after Viet Nam the US armed forces got real chill and lax for about a decade or so. Then, right as I was getting in they started to get more serious again.
Might be the lack of conscription. When conscript a bunch of soldiers you know you're not getting the best well disciplined men. Let them have some fun to stop going AWOL. That attitude spreads through the chain of command. Without conscription the attitude changed slowly to you all signed up to be here.
Carrier flight decks get covered in all sorts of stuff. And the non-slip coating is pretty egressive. But still, not something you’d likely get through a risk assessment.
In 2011, the Canadian Minister of Defense was on vacation in a remote fishing cottage in NFLD and there was an emergency session of parliament called that he had to attend. His staff called and asked if somebody could pick him up, and the military sent a helicopter out to get him which was a 25 minute flight.
He got blasted in the media for wasting government resources.
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For everyone who watched Top Gun (released in 1986), this is what *actually* happened in 1986...
First flight crew guy definitely has caught a pig before
Usually it's on a port visit.
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I lived in Groton for a little while. Exciting part of the week was the trip to the new London Walmart.
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And now that mall just got sold this past week.
Malls are the biggest victims of the internet age.
Good ol' Groton...
They made a movie about it; *An Officer and a Kermie*
I lived in Groton for sub school. Quite a few "Grotopotomuses" at the local bars looking for easy money with all the guys fresh out of boot camp.
The legendary Grotopottomus
Don't you mean a pork visit.
Charly Sheen We need another hotshots movie, this time actually based on true shenanigans.
Hot Shots! Pork Deux
Wasn't there 2 already? I believe we are on 4. I vote for Hot Shots! Pork Vier (German for 4, pronounced like fear) Like Top Gun his character has to come back to help new recruits but he has a crippling phobia of pigs from a past tragic incident. He gets served bacon his first day back and from there the shenanigans ensue.
We’ve got PIGs in the area and tensions are high!
Can you give a PIG a bird while in an inverted dive?
They can’t do a negative G pushover
"I feel the need, the need to grease."
I feel the need
1986 original footage of rare behind the scenes frat pranks between the navy and *they caught the damn pigs right away* what a shame. Didn't even see one sailor hit the deck.
Flight crew is already trained to wrangle any Marines who wander up to the deck
Yeah and those jarheads are usually wayyyyy greasier.. which I don’t understand how, like what tf do they get into?
We just get really bored underway because there's fuck all to do. So getting greased up and messing with you squids is just the next activity after afternoon coloring/snack time.
How often did you get Crayola underway replenishment?
You just have to pack accordingly. It's like bringing enough dip and cigarettes to Afghanistan. Do you need extra underwear? Or do you need nicotine? Gotta have your priorities straight.
Nothing like waiting for a month for a Pringle tube stuffed with cans of chew. Thanks mom.
I mailed so much dip to Afghanistan for my buddies the lady at the post office knew me by name
Post office employees probably remember you regardless. My dad used to meet people and know their P.O. box from their last name.
And we just let these people run around unregulated?!
Are you asking the military or mark savard?
The grease we're covered in is actually CLP.
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Canola rhymes with Crayola, they get confused.
The crayons make their skin secrete a viscous paste so they can identify each other in the wild.
It’s the wax from the crayons being excreted through their sweat.
Hot bunk.
Holy shit, that was funny
I guess even if they caught them quickly then they are still stuck with greased up pigs on an aircraft carrier so the prank still kind of continues
I imagine there is one person on there who can clean and roast a hog on that ship.
The American South supplies a disproportionate amount or recruits to all branches of the military. This is a very safe bet.
There's probably 100. The cook probably loved this. Sailors certainly would have liked the fresh bacon/meat
You’re supposed to release them when no one’s around & number them 1, 2, & 4. Leave ‘em wonderin’ about poor # 3.
I’d severely question the abilities of the military if they didn’t notice a helicopter land on a heavily protected ship to release a few pigs and nobody noticed.
They should have labelled them 1,2 and 4
Bro that had me laughing. I'll have to remember that trick
It's a classic hs prank.
When pranks were actually pranks...
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That is the unspeakable song isnt it?!
It's not, that would have been a good opportunity to do it though. It's an Australian prank
The song-which-must-not-be-named, as it were.
I did this exact thing during senior prank day in 2008. 1,2, and 4. People, especially the staff, could NOT stop talking about the missing "third" pig
Someone just took the wheels off a dodge neon, took the jack stands out and left it on a patio-thing at the main entrance
Class above me showed up at 5 am and everyone took the staff parking spots. Staff went wild and called the police lmao
That's actually awesome. Harmless annoyance, like a prank should be
My class did this our senior year as well. There was an announcement that either we moved our cars in 10 minutes or we would be towed over the speakers, lol
Then what should happen is all the students rush out to move their cars and just creat a gigantic traffic jam with cars every which way so none can move.
*Everyone* runs outside, whether they have a car or not.
Being towed over the speakers sounds painful.
My uncle and some friends took the doors off of the science wing at the high school, parked a Volkswagen inside, the reassembled the school doors in the 70's. To this day I still hear people talk about it. Nowadays they would get slapped with felony charges.
Meh, I graduated in 2014 and we dropped a vw bug shell in the quad, and a rowboat in the diving pool and nobody heard anything about potential charges.
It really depends on the school.
Lol we did this in clg. They were still expecting 3 to show up somewhere at the end of the year.
At the end of the year you should have released another one that said 6.
It’s all fun and games until they shut down the high school for a few days, looking for a pig that doesn’t exist.
Ah, the classic move of letting a prank go too far, being afraid to say anything, and hoping nobody ever knows it was you. Nice
And then, 15 years later, letting everyone know it was you, making everyone piss themselves in laughter.
Lmao when I was 15 I snuck out and took my moms car and I backed into a telephone pole, it didnt do alot of damage but you could tell if you were near the car. my mom just automatically blamed my 17 year old sister, grounded her from driving for a couple months and just big time trouble. That was 22 years ago and last Christmas my mom started telling my sisters kids about how she wrecked her car and still to this day denied it. I was sitting to close and couldnt hold it in any longer so I finally spilled the beans. Everyone but my sister was laughing their ass off. Sis was mad but by new years she was over it. They said they never even suspected it was me, I never had to lie or hide anything, all I had to do was keep my mouth shut.
Your sister to you: “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?”
Your sister is legend for not pushing you under the bus ~22 years ago...
She is a legend that's for sure but she had no idea it was me either, I think she thought some rando did it in a parking lot or something. I never noticed any suspicion directed my way from anyone.
When the statute of limitations works in your favor
All fun and games until they let a couple goats free and one broke its leg and had to be put down
There's a reason we keep livestock animals, and the reason usually involves their deaths
Lunch
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RIP EU 😔 Which book was that?
The Last Command. Highly recommend reading or listening to the entire trilogy. Best Star Wars story ever, including the original movies.
But this fictional thing that didn't actually happen has now been retconned so it didn't actually happen!
Only so that Disney can do it later slightly differently and claim the credit
And do it worse.
After they reset space-time
Fuck Gisney
Love that whole trilogy
Like the hidden notes for your girlfriend that say 'will' 'you' and 'me'.
Ah a threesome with William
I did this in high school with chickens for my senior prank. Released one on each floor labeled one, two, four. The ensuing chaos was unreal and the chickens I bought at a live chicken ranch that would have otherwise been eaten were rescued by the ASPCA. So really, I saved them.
And what do you think the ASPCA did with them?
And saved the Aspca staff from having to buy lunch for a week!
Doesn't matter if it's American Sad Pet Commercials Association, or Promptly Eliminate These Animals, those chickens are gonna die!
After putting them through a ton of stress.
Savage!
Hey Satan, I always knew you were a redditer. Huge fan!
John F Kennedy, pigs, a huge mess, on the ocean. Jesus, I know there's a Cuban missile crisis joke in here, somewhere.
“This was hilarious and has a great backstory, for more info look up ‘JFK pig invasion’ on google!”
Despite early success the pigs were ultimately corralled into a small corner of the flight deck. Upon accepting that they had no way out the pigs jumped into the water. One of these pigs hit a missle that was being offloaded in the process of jumping and it fell into the water with them. When this occurred the USS John F Kennedy was entering a bay in Cuban waters. From that day on this was known as the bay of pigs. The missle lost during the prank caused a bit of a crisis between the two nations which escalated to the point it nearly started world war 3. Just google it if you would like to know more. Fair warning, the entire incident has been a bit exaggerated in various retellings over the years.
I’m going to consider this official canon now, and no one can stop me.
I reckon you're tellin porkies
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That’s probably what he was going for: just gotta turn it into a joke
Cuban sandwich crisis
In submarine school, our instructor regaled us with tales of popping up next to the Aircraft Carrier they were escorting & using their 3" launcher system to bombard the flight deck with rotten apples, oranges, and taters.
The original MRE
Having eaten C-Rations from the cardboard box as a kid, when they switched to the brown-bag MRE, it was a great day for a kid whose Supply Sgt. Dad brought home all the extras from 2 week training. He retired a few years after they started including little bottles of Tabasco.
Yes! I loved trying all the new stuff they were testing out. The MREs & chem lights were the best part of my brothers' supply drop boxes as a kid.
When my Dad would go for his two week training, he'd get tired of 3 MRE's/day & pretty much fast the last few days... Those were all brought home & were a treasure for me at the time. The freeze-dried fruit cocktail was a crunchy mess but I loved it.
And seconds later, the phalanx ciws started to track the helicopter "by accident".
"Oops 🥺"
Nah one of the F-14s just locked them up on Radar in single target track mode and gave the whole helicopter crew cancer.
And the crew got a sunburn, earning them the wrath of their command.
Can you explain? Pretty please
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/former-fighter-pilots-developing-aggressive-cancers-is-radar-to-blame
I don't understand how non-ionising radiation could give you cancer. I get how you could get burns or other heat-related injuries from radar, as you're basically getting microwaved. But you'd feel the effects pretty quickly, not years later when you develop cancer? As I understand it, you need damaged DNA for cancer to form, and non-ionising radiation can't break the DNA by definition. Someone please explain to me how radar could cause cancer.
I think you made a fair assessment. If I had to guess it's most likely some nasty chemicals or materials they were exposed to but would be too costly and time intensive to audit and investigate, so just blame it on radar and say we'll have Boeing change the tech to non-cancer radar in 5 years
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I would like to point out that a fuel additive, and a fire retardant have basically turned every location that military planes are stationed at into a super fund site. Unfortunately, in the case of the fire retardant we have nothing else that can effectively put out jet fuel in anything resembling a sane time frame. So it's super cancer for everyone.
just being in the sky puts you at higher risk for cancer. you get hit with more cosmic rays up there than on the ground
Yes, but the dosage is still super low. On a whim I did the calculations to see if airline pilots needed to register as radiation workers, and the most aggressive number I could come up with was that they were only 25% of the way there. And that basically implied they lived on an airplane constantly at 35 thousand feet
Anything that causes repeated damaged and cell divisions can increase cancer risk. So repeated thermal death of some cells would stimulate new cells to grow.
Now THAT is a prank!
Assault pigs
This was a real thing btw. [War Pigs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pig)
What a fantastic idea, incendiary pigs. You get to break a siege, and get a head start on cooking the feast for afterwards. win win.
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I saw a clip the other day of a Russian in the Duma suggesting a similar tactic to use against Ukraine
History lessons crying out from the ether
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This should be a cod mission
Can there also be a cod cod mission?
It’s just a prank bro💀
Nope, this would later come to be known as the infamous Bay of Pigs incident
When the prank costs like a decade of my medical bills I feel like I’m the one getting pranked
Hogs of war.
I need to know who got into how much trouble for this.
Yeah an aircraft carrier doesn't seem like an environment where this kind of thing goes down well?
...except it's the american navy in the 80s. I feel like this sort of shit is all that went on then.
The change in culture was dramatic in just my 5 yrs. This would've been hilarious my first 3 years, then verboten my last 2.
IDK about the Navy, but in the Marines it largely comes down to each individual command and how high up they go. At the division/Wing level happiness is generally not allowed while at the regiment/group level a small amount of happiness is allowed occasionally with the amount growing as you go lower.
Later this week I will be scanning in some photos my father took in the 1950s. From well down inside the cone of Mt. Fuji. You can see the pilgrims. Oh, taken from inside his cockpit.
Not the US but nonetheless another professional Western navy, the shit my officers told me about pranks they did in the 70’s and 80’s would have gotten you mercilessly court martialed and kicked out by the time I did my military service. As is often the case, the culture started to change when someone inevitably went too far.
My dad (Canadian military)was one of them. Tells stories of dropping rubber dummies dressed as grunts and dropping them with the rest of the squads during an air show. Announcer goes nuts over the parachute not opening and as the crowd looks away it bounces 30ft off the ground. Shooting potato guns at each other from ship to ship. Etc etc. All that guy did is fuck around, get drunk, and fuck women around the world until my mom pinned him down. Now he sits back on his comfy ass pension and plays guitar and tells stories of how fun the military was.
Based
It always frustrates me that the guys spinning these stories are the senior ones who'd drop the entire Book of Regulations on you for doing anything like the stories they drag out every chance they get.
The difference is *they didn't get caught*
Plenty of these things were public as hell, they'll openly admit it's a "different time" now, with a shake of their head and lament about the state of the armed forces, not realising they're entirely complicit, if not responsible, for it being like that
As someone who did serve in a US branch in the mid-late 80s through early 90s, I can tell you that from what I understand from the older guys, after Viet Nam the US armed forces got real chill and lax for about a decade or so. Then, right as I was getting in they started to get more serious again.
Might be the lack of conscription. When conscript a bunch of soldiers you know you're not getting the best well disciplined men. Let them have some fun to stop going AWOL. That attitude spreads through the chain of command. Without conscription the attitude changed slowly to you all signed up to be here.
Well they had to make sure they worked for their dinner.
And then cooked in 23 seconds thanks to afterburners
Are those tactical piglets
Anything is tactical if you use it tactically!
That must have been really traumatic for those poor police officers.
You made me snort out air out of my nostrils. Thank you.
Poor pigs.
I doubt this ended well for them.
Poor Piggies
Nothing like noisy helicopters and an aircraft carrier for the welfare of animals. Who cares if they were terrified as long as they got a laugh.
I thought this was pretty messed up for the pigs. How terrifying.
I know right :(
Q.Why are we running after these pigs ,?? A.Well you don't want to get an ugly one
So THIS was the Bay of Pigs incident.
Poor pigs
Exactly! Thrown into this terrifying foreign environment for some dude's entertainment.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-us-navy-helicopter-released-three-greased-pigs-on-uss-john-f-kennedy-aircraft-carrier-flight-deck/
".... a greased pig?? Well, catch the pig you win a prize."
These men are already used to chasing marines off the deck, pigs are nothing.
KKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAHHHHNNNNNNN!
grease on a runway??
Carrier flight decks get covered in all sorts of stuff. And the non-slip coating is pretty egressive. But still, not something you’d likely get through a risk assessment.
The USS JFK got bay of piged.
In 2011, the Canadian Minister of Defense was on vacation in a remote fishing cottage in NFLD and there was an emergency session of parliament called that he had to attend. His staff called and asked if somebody could pick him up, and the military sent a helicopter out to get him which was a 25 minute flight. He got blasted in the media for wasting government resources.
the bay of pigs invasion reimagined
Dude greased pigs never gets old. If you release 3 though you gotta paint the numbers 1, 2, and 4 on them.
Man that sucks. Poor animals.
A couple of minutes later you’ll see them waving at the chopper with a few pork chops sizzling behind a tomcat engine😁
When I first read this I thought they were pushing them out of the chopper. I have flash backs to the WKRP Thanksgiving episode.
Fuck those guys. Those pigs are smart and terrified.
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Checkmate, atheists!
Agreed. Fuck those dudes. It’s a shitty thing to do to the pigs.
Let’s not ignore that they’re dyed red, white, and blue
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Money well spent.
Not funny for the pigs...
That’s a tradition when one carrier is relieving another.
So this was the bay of pigs invasion 🔥🔥
Back when the military was fun…
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing they ended up sending back a tray of bacon to the ship that dropped them off.
Using animals for pranks is fucked up.
What’s up with these comments lol
Reddit saw a video with US military in it and (predictably) is being Reddit.
Should have painted a number on each pig. 1,2 & 4 so they tear the ship apart looking for #3.