A listener shares yet another prank played on newbies: One of the first things you learn in the Coast Guard is that rope is called line, not rope — a vocabulary lesson reinforced by officers who would send new recruits down below to fetch 100 feet of shoreline. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Coast Guard Prank”
Following up on our conversation about ways that you can haze a newbie on the job, we heard from Mike Taylor, who says when I was in the Coast Guard and basic training, they taught us that we were not to call rope rope. We were to call it line.
One of the first pranks that they would play on you when you got to the ship was to send you down below for 100 feet of shoreline. Ha, ha, ha. He added the ha, ha, ha. 100 feet of shoreline. Ha, ha, ha. Where do I find that? 877-929-9673.
