Never trust your drill sergeant's electrical experience

[Mark R]

"A staff sergeant sent us this one from Iraq. He was doing a safety inspection and was checking the outlet where Marines were plugging in a microwave oven."

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[bmacd]

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For those of you that don't know what you're looking at, there is supposed to be a fuse in place of the drill bit that was placed in the socket.

-=bmacd=-

 

[bmacd]

and for the record, drill sergeants only exist in a basic training environment. However, NCO's (non-commissioned officers, aka sergeants) are everywhere.

-=bmacd=-

 

[trmiv]

That wood looks like it would burn nicely in an electrical fire.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: bmacd
bigger pic

For those of you that don't know what you're looking at, there is supposed to be a fuse in place of the drill bit that was placed in the socket.

-=bmacd=-

can anyone put this on bbzzdd? can't access the site

 

[Cheezeit]

hahaha I get it now

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

mmmm...lots of current

 

[DrPizza]

At least it isn't a 22 caliber bullet (done on mythbusters)

 

[Kelvrick]

The bigger clickable picture links to a truck?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
The bigger clickable picture links to a truck?

Me too. Nice use of a shovel as a wheel chock, though.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

LMAO... That's awesome.

 

[Amused]

drill sargeant

Oh, how very punny.

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: Mark R
"A staff sergeant sent us this one from Iraq. He was doing a safety inspection and was checking the outlet where Marines were plugging in a microwave oven."

Pic (with clickable bigger pic)

Big pic (on pics.bbzzdd.com)

:thumbsup:

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
The bigger clickable picture links to a truck?

Me too. Nice use of a shovel as a wheel chock, though.

with a bloody hand.

 

[iamwiz82]

I've done that before

 

[Howard]

Genius! I must try that sometime.

 

[yllus]

I laughed at "drill sargeant".

 

[boggsie]

I've wrapped the fuse in aluminum foil, but never thought of using a drill bit.

 

[glugglug]

You've never seen a 10 thousand amp fuse before?

 

[Specop 007]

Its a combat zone, they probably have a shortgae of fuses, wire, water, ammo, Home Depots, Lowes and other such things.
Rule #1. You use what you have.

 

[DivideBYZero]

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: boggsie
I've wrapped the fuse in aluminum foil, but never thought of using a drill bit.

Same, LOL.

 

[Heisenberg]

I can understand not being able to run to the hardware store in a place like Iraq, but damn.

 

[tnitsuj]

Originally posted by: Specop 007
Its a combat zone, they probably have a shortgae of fuses, wire, water, ammo, Home Depots, Lowes and other such things.
Rule #1. You use what you have.

You can actually get in serious trouble for doing stuff like that in Iraq. That beloved patriot power wire and those outlets are notoriously bad. That is apparently installed in one of our buildings, maybe a tent, or a hut, possibly a temporary interior wall or something. Troops have been killed in fires and such from stuff like that. It is also usually KBR's job to install and work on stuff like that, people aren't supposed to jury rig stuff themselves.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: bmacd
and for the record, drill sergeants only exist in a basic training environment. However, NCO's (non-commissioned officers, aka sergeants) are everywhere.

-=bmacd=-

We called them tactical instructors.