Private at basic left his weapon unattended. This is what he got in return.

While in Macedonia an army pvt left his weapon in the dfac, he had to carry around a 6 foot long 4x4 post for a few days

I've seen someone punished by having to cut grass using a pair of scissors and a ruler.

I remember when or if you forgot or lost your meal card in Basic you had to carry around a 2x3 meal card for the rest of the day..

HAHAHAHA!!! Need I say more!

Oh Damn! I've only seen one of these once before on some Pawn Shop TV Show. I bet that bastard is heavy!

There’s no way at PI you could leave a rifle unattended, they watch you like a hawk, you simply don’t have the ability to do something so stupid as to walk away from your weapon. The only thing I ever left unattended was my poncho liner and I paid for that trying to remember where in the hell I left it, I found it, Bends and mothers forever, for a rifle? Damn they’d shoot you.

8 days from the end of basic back in 2007, I had been assigned with a buddy of mine I went to high school and basic with to clean the DS office. While we were in there, we saw a picture of him with his girl on his desk. She was maxim centerfold level of attractive, no lie. Well, it had become a thing after mail call that we would all put our pictures of our girls up on the inside of someone’s wall locker and take a vote on who got the best picture that week. DS with the attractive lady friend comes walking around, and chimes in about “who won today?”. For some reason, all logic failed me, and I fired off with “Drill Sergeant, you should put that picture of your girl on your desk up here and let us vote!” When I tell you that man made me do 1,000 squat thrusts per day until graduation, I swear it on my honor. Moreover, he watched me do, Every. Single. One. 250 before breakfast chow, 250 before lunch, 250 before dinner, and 25 during mail call or before lights out. If he didn’t see them, they didn’t happen. That guy is still my hero to this day hahaha

We had a soldier who thought it was a good idea to piss by the door to our sleeping quarters while deployed overseas. Naturally he was seen by the Platoon Sergeant and the punishment was savage. He had to dig a 3 x 5 x 5 foot hole with the E tool and move all that dirt with the shovel and shirt to the burn pit area. The next day when he finished and proudly announced that he had completed the task. The 1SG went to inspect his work and when the SPC went to walk away 1SG stopped him and said "where are you going". The SPC protested saying "Ive dug the hole". Top replied "damn right and now you gotta fill this hazard before someone falls in it and kills himself. The next 8 hours were filled with him bring dirt back to the hole to fill up the pit.

During basic, walking by the "snake pit" in/out of chow, one rainbow walked by and a TI stopped him and asked why he looked so stupid. The rainbow started to cry and so the TI told him to give "good games" to every person who walked by him the entire way through chow and yell "I'm stupid". Seems cheesy but was hilarious!!

We had something called the "barrel". If we did something really dumb we had to stand in a 55 gal drum in the middle of the room for a certain amount of time so that everyone could make snarky comments. We were threatened with it more than it was actually used though. If it looked like we were getting ready to do something stupid, someone would mention the "barrel" which saved many a Pvt from the you know what.