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

When Pilots in our Squadron received their wings and were no longer just a Co-Pilot, there was a hazing of some sort. One LT was wound in Duct Tape by his fellow pilots, and they used a cargo strap to make a loop on his upper back. They picked him up with a Pettybone Crane about 10 feet up, and the Crash Crew brought in a Fire Truck and sprayed him down with Water. They left him up for a while to Drip Dry.

I sent cruits to the mess hall for cherry juice. Had to ask for the mess daddy as he had the only key. Then you had the range fan extension cords, tickets for the troop train....

About my third week aboard the USS Midway, on our way to Westpac. our Department chief asked me to run down to supply to get some additional requisition chits as we had just run out.
You cannot requisition more requisition forms without a requisition. However there might be another way. An infinite number of possible ways. Great way to learn your way around the Midway in rough Seas as every option was the far end of the ship from Upper Deck to lower and everywhere in between. There are supply storerooms everywhere.

While stationed at NAS JAX, we had a hotshot pilot who was full of himself and constantly abused his ground crew. One morning, he went out to his F4 and found a dozen red roses in the cockpit. He climbed back down and had a senior maintenance chief go over the bird. The gyro-compass was rewired backwards to indicate a climb when he was in a dive. He treated his crew much better after that.

Every Friday morning when I was stationed in Jax Fl. we would have a field day followed by a zone inspection done by our OIC. In his office he had a small head including a sink. His yeoman was responsible for the cleaning of the area, and decided to have a little fun with his boss one Friday. He left a Baby Ruth candy bar in the sink and of course when the LCDR saw it there, he totally flipped out, assuming of course, that it was a turd. As he started blasting the "poor" PO3, the young lad snatched it up saying "I'll take care of it Sir" where upon he immediately took a big bite out of the sweet confection. The look on our OIC's face was priceless...

We had a flightline Expediter that kept giving a particular E-2 a hard time on a daily basis. The E-2 in retaliation, shoved sardines in the vents of the E-6's GOV (Van.) The E-6 never could find the source of the smell and was so impressed with the young Airman's response, that he left him alone. The rest of us opted to walk everywhere instead of riding with the Expediter.

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I will neither confirm nor deny my direct involvement with this, but I remember waaaay back in 1974, there was a group of Marines that I have specific knowledge of, who called themselves "The Fang Gang". They were a maintenance division for a Cobra squadron on the east coast. Our... I mean THEIR line shack was a small prefab building in the back of the hangar just off of the aircraft ramp and they were known for... ummmm... "shenanigans" from time to time.
Well, the squadron had also just recently had a new SgtMaj assigned who had never been in the aviation arm of the Marine Corps. The SgtMaj drove a faded yellow 1968 VW bug and he had a tendency to park his bug near our... I mean THEIR maintenance shack instead of in his reserved space out in front of the hangar.

After graduating from cartography school in Ft Belvoir, VA. I was sent to Fort Bragg 82nd Airborne Engineers. (The Chairborne Rangers) The first day the two of us newbies were sent to supply to get cloud eradicator for the aerial photography. You can't eradicate clouds from photos. We felt dumb but took it in stride. It was always fun to see the next ones sent. It was a silly experience that pulled everyone together and lessened the stress for a couple of 18 year old's on their first duty assignment.

My supervisor and the master chief over him were to lazy to read special request chits they would just sign them. The Iranians took our hostages in 79 and Jimmy Carter wasn't doing a thing about it. I put in a special request chit to "Go to Iran and in the great American Spirit kick some AXX" Pappy and the Master Chief just signed off on it and sent it up the chain of command. I had forgotten about it until Pappy (supposedly the oldest CB in the Navy) called me into his office, he told me that the skipper(a Capt that didn't like me already wanted to see me regarding my request, ugh everyone got an Axx chewing the Skipper played the Sea Uncle and told me he was pissed too. Pappy and the MCPO got reamed for not reading the special request chit. They were not amused

We would get a lot of FNGs at the 1st LT Division and if they had no skills they got to push a mower or some other sXXX job. We would tell the next victim that if they passed the carpenters test they wouldn't have to push a mower.
Step One Show that you could sharpen a tool(hatchett)
Step Two Draw a two foot circle on a piece of plywood
Step Three Get Blindfolded (ill Hold your cover;-) )
Step Four twenty blindfolded Wacks of the Hatchett on the board
Step Four and a half I throw your cover on the board as you chop it to pieces
Step Five the big reveal of the results of your carpenter test