When I was in a jet fighter squadron in the Marine Corps, we got a new Pfc, right out of school, in the engine shop. The MSgt in charge of the shop got him on the old "50 yards of flight line" bit.
A few days later, in the process of building up an engine, the same MSgt told the kid to get him a "tailpipe stretcher", which there actually was. It was a tool to expand a metal fairing to install the fairing over a lip on the back of a jet engine. A lock ring was then installed around the fairing. I'm sure the tool had a high-falutin' military nomenclature, but it was commonly know as a tailpipe stretcher.
The young Pfc wasn't about to get taken a second time. He argued for fifteen minutes that there wasn't any such thing. The MSgt. had to get one himself and show it to the Pfc before he was convinced.
A "can of relative bearing grease" also got a few yuks at newbies' expense, "relative bearing" being a navigation term.
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