What’s the best prank in uniform you've seen? Comment below!

Back in 1969 we had a 2LT as company commander. He would just grab his paperwork and sign most of it without reading them. One day the 1SG slipped a piece in his stack giving everyone the day off next day. When no one showed up for work the next day.......well he learned a lesson. I have to admit that he was a great officer and made BG. His name......Daniel A. Doughtery. I saw him again in Viet Nam as he worked in the head shed.

I remember during a training exercise where we were supposed to be training on house-to-house and close-quarters combat, one of the cadre put KY jelly on all the doorknobs. As we're all gathered around trying to open the doors, simulated explosions and blanks are being fired at us, further adding to the stress.

At the after-action review, he told us why none of us could open the door.

CW4 pilot who was a complete a$$ was in the port-a-pot and a CW3 went up and started shaking it. CW4 was furious because is butt was not covering the hole anymore and his LBE fell in the hole. 9mm, canteens, everything was blue. He just started dumping 5 gallon water jugs on it. Couldn't have happened to a better person.

Sometime round 1981, we had an equipment formation after returning from the field in Germany to check that we had everything cleaned up. One of our E7's decided it would be funny to take the mask-to-mouth breathing tube our of his mask carrier. He unbuttoned one fly button on his BDU pants and inserted it until it would dangle out like a 12" ... johnson. The LT was checking everyone from the top down and when "SHE" saw it. She just stood then for several seconds, staring, and blushing. Then without missing a beat went to the next person. It was everything we could to keep a straight face. Until we were dismissed, at least. Then we were rolling with laughter.

Our shop had a running battle of pranks. One of the funniest was when one of our guys left his Subway sandwich unattended. One of the other guys opened it up carefully and slipped in a slice of white paper over the lettuce and then re-wrapped it. The best was the look on the guys face after a couple of bites. "This meat is tough!", haha. He finally unwrapped it and found the paper. We all had a good laugh!

In 1971, the new butter-bar was ME. Our Honest John artillery unit was going to the Grafenwoehr practice area for my first time, and my comms platoon decided to give me a serious initiation. Coming in on a wet day in an open jeep, my lead NCO, SFC Wallace, insisted that the only way in was on the tank trails. He drove me around at high speed through the muddy puddles for about thirty minutes, completely coating everything--the jeep, SFC Wallace, and me. It seemed like the whole battalion was waiting when we arrived, and I knew I'd been had. It took me a long time to live that one down!

One of the best I saw I was on guard duty at the front gate of our FTX and I saw the first Sgt walk up and he asked me who was in the 50 cal pit I told him my squad Sgt any two others. He then low crawled into the pit with a stealth and determination like he was escaping from prison, and preceded to take all their riffles while they were sleeping. He came out and told me to tell them when they woke up to go see him. By far one of the funniest things I’ve seen.

We had a new guy arrival straight out of MP AIT in our barracks squad bay.
One of our SP/4s decided it would be fun to make himself a 1st Lieutenant.
He had the Lt. rank and placed it on his olive drab green fatigues.
He had our new guy arrival standing at attention as he inspected his
wall locker and foot locker. Most of the veteran MPs thought this was
a good way to introduce our new MP arrival to the 558th squad bay.
Did not end well for our SP/4 wanna be 1st Lt. joker as he wound up
in our 1st Sergeant's office standing in front of Top. Someone turned
him in for wearing the rank of a Commissioned Officer during the prank.

I was in the field training with my unit during tech school and the guys decided to get Duct Tape, rope/Paracord, use the shovel to dig a hole and tied a guy to the bunk with rope AND paracord then put him in the hole and al when he was asleep. Well in the morning, the DS and everyone is cracking up when found in a hole perfectly dug and he was tied up: bound AND gagged.

Our favorite trick as a Military Training Instructor MTI was to reverse the hat brass on a new MTI's campaign hat. The new MTI would usually go most of the day with his campaign hat on backwards. Several went to supply to get a different size hat and usually they would then discover that the brass had been re-positioned. Another trick was to move their trainees to a different location or take them back to their barracks. The new MTI would be looking for their trainees for a while.