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

This is a bit of a story. In 2012 at my first duty station our SSGT would prank a few people telling them to bring him the A.F. ID.10-T. It was a good prank but I decided as a little A1C, that I would make this form. As a template I used both AF Leave Request and Out Processing checklists. Though instead of squadrons I had leadership from your immediate supervisor, all the way up to the base commander. After completing it 1 of my friends asked for a copy. I didn’t know, but he gave it to “That 1 kid” who believes everything. About an hour later I found out “he” had the form, so I called my friends and told them we have to find this kid. He was new so none of us had gotten his number yet. We went out searching for him, not 20 mins later I get a call. “Report in Now.” our Capt. was standing at the front of formation with “him”. When everyone arrived we formed rank and our Capt. told “the kid” to read the name of the form… with out any punctuation. It was hilarious because he had to read it 3 times before he understood. Our Capt. then showed us all the paper. To this day I don’t’ know how but every signature was filled out. He had gone to the base commander who then told him, “Now you see this box under each number. Take this and go back down the chain and get everyone's initials.” Our Capt. initialed it, right there, handed it to our Flight Chief, and the kids supervisor. Then told him to laminate it and bring it in tomorrow. Yes a few people took his embarrassed picture and nobody got in trouble but I was ordered not to make any more copies.

Told my buddy when he was still new to the unit, that he forgot to bring in the range fans. It even got back to the PSG who pretended to chop his ass. It wasn't until after we got released for the day that he was told it was a joke.

My Chief told me to make a fresh pot of coffee and when I tried to explain, "I don't drink_", I got shut down with a "Just make it."
I grabbed the pot along with all the mugs and marched everything down to the deep sink in maintenance and gave and proceeded a deep clean. The stainless steel was shiny and the mugs were sparkling white.
Chief came over while I was putting everything back together and started screaming, asking me "What the fuck did you do?" I shrugged, "I cleaned it. Now if you want to show me how to make the stuff, I'll be more than happy to make a fresh pot."
My Watch Officer was crying with tears and needless to say, I was never asked to make coffee again.

1MC "The person having the keys to the sea chest lay to the main engine room."

There's the usual shaving cream on the hand trick sending the new guy to several places looking for something that didn't exist.

So many to choose from

1sg, platoon Sgt and I Oranjestad another nco that he had came back hot on a piss test. The stuttering and stammering was epic.

At.the TMC. Soldier came in complaining of hemorrhoids. Doc said wait. Went to the back and came back out pulling a vet glove (used on large animals) on up to his shoulder. Soldier left in quite the hurry
Army want names on windshields. We got our done fast. Pvt next to us was struggling. He asked how we did it. We sent him to get the sticky stuff you put on windshields to keep the paint from running. Sent him to the motor Sgt. He sent him to alpha (we were Bravo) who then sent him to Charlie who sent him to the Battalion Motor officer who in turn sent him to the BN XO. Oblivious to this, we were summoned to our orderly room. Once there, Top gave us a look and then marched us across the street to the XO office. We saw Pvt in the office and wondered wtf! We reported and the XO was very upset and asked PVT was in his office looking for SCOTCH TAPE! I almost fell down laughing so hard.

The best jokes take a life of their own!

USAF ~ In basic, me and my buddy were on CQ for our barracks that day. It was a saturday and typically our TI did not come in, just our asst TI and he was out for a bit. We decided to play a joke on this one guy that never could get his rack right, always getting demerits and really causing our squad a ton of extra work....The TI punished the entire squad if anyone messed up. So we told him we were gonna take some pictures of all of us in our dress blues but we secrety had the TI's dress blues he had in his office and got Hofskey to do it. We were taking pics and the TI came in that day. caught all of us red handed. I had never seen Sgt Perez that mad, boy he was pissed

in 1975, we were on a FTX in Germany. i was an Army brat and knew all the tricks and sayings and the real deal. i was a an E-2 at the time and we were putting up a GP medium for the 1SG. Some NCO hollered at me to go find a skyhook to get the tent up. i looked at him and was about to laugh, since i knew what he was doing, i went along with the joke and went on my merry way. i went to visit a friend and went to the mess tent and got a snack and sat down by a large tree. I waited for and hour and a half there and then went back. the tent was up and they loaded the tent with everything. the NCO saw me and started yelling what took so long. i stated there is no such thing as a skyhook unless you want the cargo chopper to come and help with the tent. i told him that i just took a break and figured you did not need me since you sent me off. the guys that were there got a good laugh on the NCO, that NCO was an idiot and no one liked him.

This was not intended to be a prank, but it was pretty funny non the less.

When I was in basic training (Ft. Lost in the Woods Jan. '71). I was placed on CQ duty for my platoon in the barracks for the day while the rest was out training. Our quarters were on the second floor of the building and there were two corners in the hallway with a set of stairs in the corner and at the end of the one hallway that were our entry points. About halfway down the hall in one direction was another companies quarters with out a door or barrier, just a line painted on the wall. There was noway to keep an eye on both hallways and the doors coming into the area. Plus if you had to go to the head you could not see anything to cover the quarters. Also The First Sargent was known to come by a check on the CQ's trying to catch them not doing their jobs. Since I could not watch both doors from anyone point, I improvised some alarms on the doors. I took two of the garbage cans we had on the floor (the 55gal steel cans with lids) and proper them up against the doors so if the door was open thee can would fall over and make a lot of noise. That way i could get to the door in a hurry.

Well needles to say this was one of the days Top was going to check out the CQ's. So Top opened the door and not only did the alarm work but it worked better than I thought. Not only did it fall over make a big crashing sound, it also chased him down the stairs. All of the noise from this also brought the CO an EXO out of their offices to find out what the hell was going on. They found Top at the bottom of the stairs with this garbage can laying there at the bottom of the stairs. At that point standing at the top of the stairs I thought my shit was pretty weak and all hell was was going to come down on me. That was until the CO and EXO started to laugh. TOP was not to happy but then he started to laugh too. TOP looked up at me and said that, that was one hell of a way to protect the door, and then yell at me say that I need to get down there and get his trash can back to where it needs to be and that I had better not have put a dent in it.

I told the rest of the guys what I had done and they all laughed. TOP got pretty good at catching garbage cans after that.

As a brand new Private, Fort Lewis, WA. 2002, 1-24th (Duece Four) I spent “time” looking, begging, asking, pleading and just looking damn near ridiculous. For a big enough “Range Fan” so we could blow all the fog off the M4 Zero/Qualification Range and “Beat feet back to the rear!”