Snipe Hunts for the FNG Freelance Traveller (15 May 2016 23:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Timothy Collinson (16 May 2016 02:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Timothy Collinson (16 May 2016 02:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Dave (16 May 2016 03:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Richard Aiken (16 May 2016 04:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Kelly St. Clair (16 May 2016 08:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG shadow@xxxxxx (17 May 2016 12:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Jeffrey Schwartz (17 May 2016 13:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Timothy Collinson (17 May 2016 15:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Jeffrey Schwartz (17 May 2016 13:29 UTC)

Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG shadow@xxxxxx 17 May 2016 12:54 UTC

On 15 May 2016 at 19:55, Freelance Traveller 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?

Send the FNG to get a lidar bearing to fix the scan platform for the
main lidar unit...

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