On 16 May 2016 12:56 am, "Freelance Traveller" <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure many people have read stories where a character is newly in a
> military or paramilitary service, and as part of the service "culture",
> is sent on bogus errands, such as a search for "fifty meters of flight
> line" or "last month's cannon report" or "a bucket of prop wash". (Such
> bogus errands are sometimes generically called "snipe hunts".)
>
> What sort of snipe hunts would exist in the various interstellar
> services in the Third Imperium?

Might army recruits be told to report at 04:30 for a Trailing March?

tc