What is your favorite military prank?

I managed to send a recruit around the full base looking for the keys to the indoor mortar range an hour later he was knocking on my office door asking me for a long stand I then got an a** chewing from the dc

Last really good prank I remember was in a packed flight room with a bunch of LTs. We gave the following message to an LT who came back from the bathroom: "Hey, Capt Dees just called and he sounded really pissed about something...you better call him back" We gave him this number while he called on the shared phone in the center of the room:

I was in boot camp in Orlando and during work week I was working in the scullery. I went down to see the SK2 about getting more soap for the dishwasher when one of the guys from my company came in asking where to find two feet of Fallopian tube. The SK2 told him to go ask the Chief and see if she had any because he was out.

!974, Ft. Greely Alaska. Our AFRTS TV ststion was B&W only. The smug, dumb ass Lt. that was the Base's Information officer was telling everyone that it was impossible to convert the station to color. I was tired of the calls to the station about it, so I made a custom station ID slide, and used a borrowed color bar generator to transmit our ID in color at the start of our 6:00 PM newscast in color with no color equipment in the station. Anyone with a color TV who wasn't on duty saw it. 15 seconds later the Lt. was on the phone screaming, "Soldier! You just made a fool of me!" I replied, "But sir, you brag of being a self made man!" He never spoke to me again. Never piss off the engineer! :)

When a Marine buddy was taking a nap we'd place his hand in warm water and wait for him to pee! OR..put shaving cream on his hand and tickle his nose. OR we'd short sheet his bunk. OR we'd squeeze lighter fluid on his chest light it on fire then wake him up.

2 pranks and one scenario. From 1962 and the Cuban Crisis to the Corona Virus these beat everything else I've seen. At K8 Kunsan AFB in 95 was the funniest prank I've heard about, seen it and done it. I was in Food Service. Cooks work crazy and ridiculous shifts. On nights when a guy would come in from a night on the town and is 4/5 to the wind and stumbling around, they would wake everybody in the bay up. Land crabs were always plentiful because Kunsan is on the coast. A couple of us would always keep a container full of them on hand. When the jerk went to the latrine someone would take a hand full and put them between their sheets. Once they finally get into bed, they would be there at the most 3-4 min. The crabs would think the hair on their legs were food. someone would turn the light on. We would all sit and watch the show and laugh till we pee'd. #'s 2&3 were at Pope AFB N. C. in 93. There were still many WWII & Korean Vets still around. I have to say, I was surrounded by heros. But! Jokes and pranks abounded. There was one Shift Leader an E5. He was always drunk. Even on shift. One 0300 shift when he went into the walk-in-refer to pull the breakfast food out to start cooking, a couple guys took his coffee cup Sgt always left on a sink ledge nearest the refer door. They poured the coffee out and filled it with Worchester Sauce, hot sauce, meat sauce and mixed salt in it. When Sgt. came out and picked up his cup, everybody stopped and watched. You could hear a pin drop. He took a sip. Put the cup down & went to the schedule and gave assignments. He took another sip and went to work. When his back was turned one of the guys took a sip. He spit it out.
SSgt. 'Fuller' finished drinking the whole cup. I was astonished he still stood up. (Who was the joke really on)? The third incident, is the weirdest I've ever thing. Same chow hall. The same shift. The same guys. In the late fall or early winter we went to work. As his custom, Sgt. went into the walk in. The freezer was connected to the with a door in the refer. He stayed in there for an unusually long time. We all got concerned. I went to the door to check on him. About that time he opened the door and walked out. He was as white as his cook's whites were. His eyes were about to bulge out of his sockets. We asked him several times, what's wrong. After several minutes, he said "There is a moose in the Freezer". We all looked at each other and started laughing. He said, "No, seriously. There's a moose in the freezer. I was the first one in. Sure enough there was a moose laying on the floor of the freezer. To this day I still don't know that much about moose. I don't know if it was a young one, a female or what. It didn't have antlers and it was big. But it still just fit in the freezer. We had to prepare and serve breakfast. Someone obviously came while we were all on the line serving. When BK was over, we went to check it. It was gone. I wish there was such a thing as a cell phone back then.

Boobytrapping the female latrine in the field with flash bangs!

Nothing complicated. We wrapped the porta-jon with commo wire when the battalion XO was inside.

Once sent a new guy to the secretarial pool looking for a set of Bravo Alpha eleven Sierra forms. Captain C. was pissed when he heard about it! This was about 1967. No sense of humor at all...

While prepping for moveout our new Lt. was frantically checking everything. He ask me if we had everything and I told him that we were low on squelch oil for the radio's, he walked at a very hurried pace to maintenance. When he returned, he was smiling and much more relaxed.