What's the best prank you were ever a part of?

I was an young E1 at my first duty station. I was outside a restricted area. Our fence had sensors which caused alarms. There were these little boxes the wires ran through (unbeknownst to me). My sup told me I had to conduct a VSV (voice sensor check). He told me I had to go to each box and yell into them. He had set this up with the alarm monitor and the rest of the guys in the area. So I go to the first box and say "rah", my sup yells "louder, say it louder!" "RAH!" I yell. He says "got it, next one". Fifty plus sensors later, everyone on my shift and a few non-security munitions guy all saw me yelling at a box that had no microphone. I was also given a garbage bag and told to run around the flight line to get an air sample. Finally, they told me to get the key to start the B52 to base op's (the key was a lever used to crank open a window). Yup, totally gullible. Truth be told, after 23 years, I may still do crap like this. Good times!

Pallet wrapped a guy's black 88 Monte Carlo during the summer. He needed a box cutter to get into his car.

While in Korea, I had a CO I was always playing pranks on. I would fill all his desk drawers with packing peanuts, or I would do other such pranks. He would prank me back as well. This was between the two of us and no one else in the unit was any wiser. It was fun and it broke the boredom. He was an awesome CO.

This will be very location specific prank and not to offend anyone I will keep it simple, Take a turtle to the Paradise Club in Son-ju-ri (was one of those heavenly spots a few clicks from the DMZ) and leave them there. O yeah make sure they are the first through the door.

OSUT, I fell asleep reading a book on a Sunday, woke up to a 2in layer of shaving cream on me. my sneakers(we were in PTs) were tied to the bunk AND to my boots(which all 3 pairs where tied together and to the bunk).

I was with a buddy on vaction, he is in the NG too. He fell asleep watching TV. So me and another buddy got behind him and screamed "AT EASE!!" He was up and half way to parade rest before he realized where he was.

A couple of ATs ago we had a drunk LT come into our bay after the battalion party. He was from HHC and they had just recently stole our guidon so we were not feeling all the charitable. One of the Sergeants gave him some "water" turns out he gave him straight 'shine.

Some of my bay mates in my first AIT would go around and put Nare on people while they slept. Made one very wary when it came to sleeping

Pre-Military, but this was fun:

There was a guy at my school that did not like me, for no real rhyme or reason. There may have been a reason, but I didn't know. Well, he was spreading a whole bunch of rumors, blah blah blah, and I was tired of it.

He had a GMC Jimmy that he lowered, did a whole bunch of "Fast and Furious" things to it, so during the warmer, summer months, I placed a full pack of Oscar Myer bologna on. Because of the heat, the bologna removed some of the paint leaving it polka dotted. Needless to say, he wasn't particularly happy about it, and he never did figure out who did it. But, revenge was sweet.


Fun Office Warfare:

If you have access to somebodies Outlook (they leave their CAC in the Reader and unlocked) subtle ways to teach them lessons. Reset the Rules. My old XO was really bad with this, so I reset his rules so whenever I would send him an Email, it would a) Play an annoying sound, b) Forward him a copy of it, and c) Automatically print a copy of it.

When I was at SOI at Camp Geiger: We had a private who was a thief, he stole all of our candy that we were taking into the field. Once we caught him, we took him out for drinks, then once drunk we saran wrapped him to his rack. We moved the rack with him in it to right beside the hatch at the NCO club. It was almost closing time and we waited in the bushes to see what was going to happen. Well, a crusty old Master Guns came out, walked around the cot, called out to the inside of the bar and proceeded to piss all over the privates head. Out came a few other drunk senior NCO's and the joined n the fun. We all couldn't help but to burst out laughing and the SNCO's had us carry him screaming, piss wet and still drunk back to the barracks. He never stole our shit again....

We had two soldiers in our unit who were always pulling pranks on each other that various friends got involved with. The finale as the senior of the two was out processing I was involved with. Early Sunday morning he comes up to my room, wakes me up and asks if I had photos of the other soldier and a young soldier I was friends with (both females) I did and gave them to him. About an hour later he returns the photos and says "Check this out" He had created a gag wanted poster with their faces on it along with their alleged nicknames. If anyone read it, it was obvious from the start it was a gag as they were "wanted" for pranks in poor taste among other "crimes". Not only was it posted on every bulletin board on post (a small post in Korea) he convinced the various CQ staff members to post it inside the locked bulletin boards next to the duty rosters. The cooks put it up next the chow list, the gate guards posted in and out of the guard shack, the best was he convinced the drivers of the post circulating buses to post it on the board next to the time list as the buses circulated among the camps. The pair spent all day Sunday and part of Monday searching for and tearing down the posters, and life was a bit rough until they found them all. I am still in contact with all three and it still makes us smile. I just wish I had kept the poster he gave me, it hung on my wall locker in the barracks until I PCS'ed.

At Peekskill Military Academy we had a cadet from Venezuela who had never seen snow. The kid was a pain in the butt for most of the cadet chain of command. One fine day in December, it started to snow. The kid asked a senior cadet, "What is it?" The other cadet, quick thinking, replied, " Oh my God! It's radioactive fallout!" After the kid didn't show up for formation a few hours later, we went to his room and had to pry him out from under his bunk!

At Norwich University we had an old field piece that was fired by a cadet MP every morning as a part of the Reveille Formation. The breech of the gun had a plug in it with an opening machined in it to hold a blank 12ga shotgun round. Unfortunately, the barrel could accept a roll of toilet paper. If the toilet paper was in the barrel when the gun was fired it would result in a blizzard of toilet paper spread all over the upper parade ground. The cadet MP would receive a slew of demerits and spend hours marching tours for not having checked the barrel before firing the gun. This did not happen frequently, but enough to keep the MPs on their toes!