Most memorable private/cherries prank!

Lets see there is the classic sending private to the supply sgt for some BA-11s. Or collecting of an exhaust sample, or checking for weakness in armor and marking with an "X" in chalk, or my personel favorite sending new private to a different platoon to ask the other plt sgt for the PRK-E-7.

Before I joined the Army my boss at the car wash I worked at sent me across the street to the Home Depot to get Fallopian Tubes for the car wash. I asked several
People who attempted to help me find them and then finally someone told me "I don't think we sell those here." I was definitely got good with that one.

I once got even with a soldier who pissed me off. I did this by wiring his doorknob to an electrical outlet in the middle of the night, the fun was in the morning when he kept getting shocked while trying to open his door. We blamed it on the carpeting in his room having an overabundance of static electricity. He never figured out who did it to him. If he is on here and reads this he knows now.

One day at Balad AB, we were sitting around the squadron talking about what restaurant we all wanted to go to after we got back.  One guy said Chili's was his favorite restaurant.  This guy was pretty naïve (never been abroad, first deployment, etc.), so I told this guy that they had just opened a Chili's restaurant at Mosul.  About a week later we get a mission to go up there.  So, we take everyone's order after our preflight mission briefing and tell him we'll "call it in on VHF when we're about a half hour from landing."  This guy was practically drooling the entire flight from Balad to Mosul.  When we land and pull into  the offload area, we send him out of the back of the C-130 with strict orders (no pun intended)--deliver the piece of paper with our "confirmation number" to the man in the orange reflective vest, and stay away from the props.  This guy goes out there and confronts the guy in the orange vest, they must have been talking for five minutes, I wish could hear what was being said.  I'm sure it was along the lines of: "I'm here to get my order from Chili's, are you the guy?" "Huh, what are you talking about?" "Give me the Chili's order man", "What the hell are you talking about?"  "Quit messing with me. Give me the Chili's I know you have it!"  "Um, you think those guys are messing with you?"  

This is not a private prank but I had a special Specialist that would be great at doing a task but never come back to tell you that it was completed. He instead would go sit by these two E-7s and go on the computer and look at trains. One of the E-7s was trying to get rid of him and told him to go look for a laser cutter. Well after an hour or so the other E-7 got concerned as he still had not come back and he went to go find him. He found him in the next building (where the two star command was) walking with a LTC looking for this laser cutter. When the E-7 tried to get the SPC to come back the LTC asked him if they found the laser cutter yet.....He quickly got him away from the LTC by saying yes we found one.

Probably the most effective prank, which just about always worked, was to send a Cherry Ranger right outta RIP off on an urgent mission to get hold of a set of Back Blast Bags for the M67 90mm Recoilless Rifle.

Since the 90 comes right outta the arms room with canvas covers for both the muzzle and the breech, the Cherry having seen them invariably accepts it as Gospel that backblast bags exist, and being VERY motivated to accomplish whatever the task may be, 100% and then some, he'll damn near kill himself trying to find 'em. 

Sometimes an enterprising but slow-witted Ranger might even poke his head into the First Sergeant's office, inquiring as to the whereabouts of those elusive bags.  Whoa.  Antics then ensued.

I also remember someone trying to get me with the BA11's lmao

I recently heard about someone getting a Soldier to search for "soft spots" on the armored vehicles....haha

One of my previous OIC's, he was told that after BOLC, he needed to report to his first Battalion Commander in Dress uniform, so he showed up to HQ's in Blues trying to report to the BC