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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5528547" data-attributes="member: 34175">Amateurs - MI Soldiers live in a high stress atmosphere in 24 hour operations. (our job is the same in peacetime or wartime and if it's not done correctly in the first case it might lead to the second...) So how do we cope - by pranking each other - constantly.&nbsp; It has been said that Special Forces should train with MI for a few weeks to learn how to properly create improvised booby traps.&nbsp; Examples:&nbsp; All SCIFs have a raised floor so that the air conditioning&nbsp; can be pumped into the equipment racks.&nbsp; We used to pull up the floor tiles in front of a piece of equipment, pull out the supports and then replace the floor tiles.&nbsp; Then we'd call the equipment down for maintenance.&nbsp; That was known as a Mech Trap.&nbsp; Many years before chad was known by the public at large, we had chad in the SCIFs.&nbsp; In various feats of mechanical engineering we would use rubber bands, paperclips, paper, tape and pencils to create chad traps.&nbsp; A friend of mine used some dental floss as a tripline punched a hole in the back of a supply cabinet ran it through to the door and mounted it on the top.&nbsp; When the door was opened, fwoosh, your uniform changed from camo to white speckled and you would be picking chad out of your hair, ears and clothing for days.Of course Zulu time is known by all military units as operational time.&nbsp; As a 24 hour ops center we were always on Zulu time, so we had Zulu clocks hanging from every ceiling and usually in multiple places in each section.&nbsp; So when the time change would happen, we would tell the nug's to go to the watch office and asked for the Zulu key to change the clocks.&nbsp;&nbsp; (For those that don't know Zulu time never changes...)&nbsp; We pulled that one so many times they actually found on old key, tagged it Zulu Key and hung it in the key box...And you would have them get K9P - we would have nug's copy 1D10T's <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Come to think of it, maybe all MI ops should have Improvised Weapons as a skill....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 5528547, member: 34175"] Amateurs - MI Soldiers live in a high stress atmosphere in 24 hour operations. (our job is the same in peacetime or wartime and if it's not done correctly in the first case it might lead to the second...) So how do we cope - by pranking each other - constantly. It has been said that Special Forces should train with MI for a few weeks to learn how to properly create improvised booby traps. Examples: All SCIFs have a raised floor so that the air conditioning can be pumped into the equipment racks. We used to pull up the floor tiles in front of a piece of equipment, pull out the supports and then replace the floor tiles. Then we'd call the equipment down for maintenance. That was known as a Mech Trap. Many years before chad was known by the public at large, we had chad in the SCIFs. In various feats of mechanical engineering we would use rubber bands, paperclips, paper, tape and pencils to create chad traps. A friend of mine used some dental floss as a tripline punched a hole in the back of a supply cabinet ran it through to the door and mounted it on the top. When the door was opened, [I]fwoosh[/I], your uniform changed from camo to white speckled and you would be picking chad out of your hair, ears and clothing for days. Of course Zulu time is known by all military units as operational time. As a 24 hour ops center we were always on Zulu time, so we had Zulu clocks hanging from every ceiling and usually in multiple places in each section. So when the time change would happen, we would tell the nug's to go to the watch office and asked for the Zulu key to change the clocks. (For those that don't know Zulu time never changes...) We pulled that one so many times they actually found on old key, tagged it Zulu Key and hung it in the key box... And you would have them get K9P - we would have nug's copy 1D10T's :) Come to think of it, maybe all MI ops should have Improvised Weapons as a skill.... [/QUOTE]

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