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Snipe Hunt (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 months ago by perishthethought@piefed.social to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive animal called a snipe. Although the snipe is a real bird, a snipe hunt is a quest for a nonexistent creature whose description varies.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

In the army we’d send new soldiers to the supply sergeant for a PRC E-6 (pronounced prick e-6). A PRC77 is a type of radio so it sounds reasonable. In reality you’re asking the private to call the sergeant (an e-6 which is a staff sergeant) a prick.

It never got old.

That or send him for a box of grid squares, chemlight batteries, or make him stand in front of the radar with a trash bag collecting radiation samples. God it was so much fun to fuck with the new guy.