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i saw this picture today and had to take a screen shot of it. I wasnt interested in the generator but it gave me a good laugh
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Comical stenciling on 803 GOV planet today
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If you stay in the Army long enough, you will see things that defy understanding.
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You KNOW they put that there for a good reason. I will bet the genset was a reset after it hydrolocked trying to start with cylinders full of fuel!
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Hell, I saw stuff that defied understanding my first week of basic training! Where do you think the term SNAFU came from?
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What year? I went in Nov. 1972.
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I remember in 1987 at pilot training in Columbus MS when the maintenance switched from military to civilian. We just shutdown from a sortie and the fuel truck came over. I remember the so called crew chief walked all the way around the aircraft trying to figure out where the fuel went. For several months after that day, an instructor pilot had to go out with us to preflight the aircraft before we flew solo. Not the case before that day.
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Along these same lines, I once got two M814s that had been rebuilt and came out of long-term storage. Both were stenciled FLUDS DRAINED on the doors. Not quite as humorous as the OP's picture, though!
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Aug. 1971, Fort Dix, NJ.
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Don't put fuel in that hole.... it's probably already full of water from the flap being open!
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Aug 18, 1969. But SNAFU is far older than that date. I can remember at least one mention when my father was still on active duty (he retired Feb 1962). I think the mention was when we were in Germany , Aug 56 through Aug 59.
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Oh I think SNAFU goes back to WWI. Not sure but it has been around for a long, long time. I think SNAFU was the original insult followed by FUBAR. Sort of gives you an idea of the GI's idea of how the military handles things. In some ways they are highly efficient but in others................ well.............. SNAFU.
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.Oh I think SNAFU goes back to WWI. Not sure but it has been around for a long, long time. I think SNAFU was the original insult followed by FUBAR. Sort of gives you an idea of the GI's idea of how the military handles things. In some ways they are highly efficient but in others................ well.............. SNAFU.
Reminds me of sitting on the runway waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and spin up the props, then wait... then shut it down... then wait some more. SNAFU for sure and FUBAR too!
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Honestly I've seen them before but have no idea what SNAFU stands for, and I didn't know FUBAR until I saw the Memphis Belle movie.
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and naturally some times the "F-Word" is substituted to the four letter version.
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at least as far back as during WW2 .. 
I believe Mel Blanc provided the voice
I believe Mel Blanc provided the voice
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being a smartazz while visiting with a personable customer one day, I asked what FUBAR meant, told her I thought it was a german word.. She got all red and started laughing .. I knew she was a WW2 german war bride
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okay, back to comical stenciling : while with engineers at FLW in the 70's , a couple of us were painting 55gal drums yellow and stenciling "High Water" on them. But the stencil machine was busted and we had to share a manila "put your own damn letters together" set .. It was one "H" short so we did what we could and were to just paint another H on them the next day, since we ran out of time and the OMS (maint shop) gates were about to be locked for the day.. That night a big storm came through and it rained heavy most of the night .. Anyway, apparently some of the guys went out to set up barrels in the middle of the night wherever there was water over the roads.. Late the next morning the CO came into the OMS and yelled , "... you 
numbskulls! The batallion commander wants to know what the is Hig Water ??!!! 
numbskulls! The batallion commander wants to know what the is Hig Water ??!!!
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The gen stencil reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy. "there's your sign......
Sad part is that there was a reason they felt they had to do that....
Sad part is that there was a reason they felt they had to do that....
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Hopefully someone learned their lesson, and the stencil is meant to be in good humor.
We had a fax machine on the 2nd floor of our battalion building.
Posted on the wall above the fax was instructions on how to operate the fax machine.
It wasn't actually a fax machine though. It was the sensitive documents paper shredder.
Some officer tried to use it to send a fax one time, and for a full year afterwards the "fax" instructions were posted above it.
You can't fix stupid, but you can use it for entertainment.
We had a fax machine on the 2nd floor of our battalion building.
Posted on the wall above the fax was instructions on how to operate the fax machine.
It wasn't actually a fax machine though. It was the sensitive documents paper shredder.
Some officer tried to use it to send a fax one time, and for a full year afterwards the "fax" instructions were posted above it.
You can't fix stupid, but you can use it for entertainment.
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In 1986 at Camp Fuji, Japan, I was assigned to a working party one day with other members of my tank platoon. Top (Master Sergeant for the Company) told us to repaint & re-stencil the Paint/HazMat Locker, which was a small conex box. Repaint accomplished, we broke out the stencils to find that we were one short of a Zero/O stencil…so one of the senior Lance Corporals (E-3) decided to ”modify” the stenciling to “NO SMOKING WITHIN 49.8 FEET.”okay, back to comical stenciling : while with engineers at FLW in the 70's , a couple of us were painting 55gal drums yellow and stenciling "High Water" on them. But the stencil machine was busted and we had to share a manila "put your own damn letters together" set .. It was one "H" short so we did what we could and were to just paint another H on them the next day, since we ran out of time and the OMS (maint shop) gates were about to be locked for the day.. That night a big storm came through and it rained heavy most of the night .. Anyway, apparently some of the guys went out to set up barrels in the middle of the night wherever there was water over the roads.. Late the next morning the CO came into the OMS and yelled , "... you
That was one of many times I discovered how fast & furious S**t Rolls Downhill…. Needless to say the next day we did the stenciling in two separate passes to accomodate the shortage of Zero/O stencils…