Airforce Week Prank Ideas

I spoke to my Plebe yesterday morning and he was massively bummed about the lock up. Massively stupid stuff that makes you wonder not what, but if, the plebes in question were thinking. Greasing the stairs - someone slipped, fell, and bashed their head. Throwing "water balloons" with bodily fluids. There was another head injury (forgot what that was) from an obviously injury inducing act. DS said that the Dant was in a unconciliatory mood already because of a sloppy parade on Thursday with visiting dignitaries from international SAs in attendance. All upperclassman were required to do extra parade practice (I guess 4/C's still have their summer training in tact.
 
Yeah. The spraying of Pam on the deck plates (where the Plebes have to square their corners) and stairs is a monumentally stupid idea, but every year some moron thinks it's a good idea.

I was at the PRT on Saturday and one of the guys fell and hit his head on the run portion of it. They scrambled two fire trucks, an ambulance, a fire chief car, and a police car. The Mid looked fine, but they put him on a gurney and into the back of the ambulance anyway. They are very serious about strictly adhering to concussion protocol, this year in particular.

I would not be surprised if a Mid who came up with a stupid prank that led to a head injury, got separated right then and there. As a matter of fact, I would expect it.
 
I have seen on social media the bleachers in the pool. Along with weights.

I read about the “water balloon” fight. Didn’t realize it was body fluids. That’s absolutely disgusting. Not a prank, imo. Not that I have any say at all but geeze!
 
Every year, we tell our sponsor mids, don’t do anything that can cause injury, lasting damage or replacement expenses.

Every year, viral boneheadedness sets in. It’s that not fully developed impulse center in the brain + pack mentality + a belief they can’t fry us all + not wanting to be the uncool mid who says something sensible.

From the past...Herndon Monument was decorated with shoe black, the stuff you paint on shoe heels to stain them deep black. It took a fat contract to a specialty stone restorer to get that out of the monument.
AF and Army uniforms ruined with cooking oil, shaving cream, other stuff. Covers stolen.
Endless list of avoidable injuries.
A wrecked car placed in T Court for Beat Army pep rally and the fun of mids beating on it with a bat. All fine. Post-pep rally in early AM, the Bonehead Squad decided to set it on fire, causing an EPA-reportable incident and damage to T-Court bricks, with another fat contract to get those replaced due to fire damage and environmental contamination measures in a Chesapeake watershed zone.
 
The fully rigged Sailboats placed on the Dant's table in King Hall was a winner my 1/C year.
So was moving the A4 up onto Red Beach kind of pissed off the administration because getting it back down was pretty difficult (They did not ask the mids to move it back where they got it)
During my son's plebe year, I remember them taking every roll of toilet paper in Bancroft Hall and piling it up out in T Court.
 
During my tenure as a BattO, all the honey bears from King Hall were abducted, with “have you seen this honey bear” posters put up.
 
To those before: what was your favorite?
 
Ummm...the Plebe mattresses piled up in the Striper Corridor. The all-night labor must have been Herculean.
 
Greasing the stairs - someone slipped, fell, and bashed their head
The spraying of Pam on the deck plates (where the Plebes have to square their corners) and stairs
Something here doesn't make sense....most "spirit" pranks are done by the Plebes, but greasing stairs and deck plates has to be upperclass messing with Plebes. Either way, really dumb !

Every year, viral boneheadedness sets in. It’s that not fully developed impulse center in the brain + pack mentality + a belief they can’t fry us all + not wanting to be the uncool mid who says something sensible.

> Spoken like a true former Batt(O), who has had to dance in front of the Dant and Deputy Dant on Monday morning explaining some unexplainable act of Midshipman brilliance. However, we also need to keep in mind that its that same "not fully developed impulse center in the brain" that gets young men and women to launch of a carrier deck into a dark sky and then try to land on a pitching deck, or lead a bunch of Marines into a village full of bad guys with guns and explosives. Sometimes there is a fine line between encouraging that feeling of invincibility and and stifling creativity.
 
@Old Navy BGO
I laughed out loud about dancing in front of the Dant and DepDant. So true. Very clear memories. After a few dances of their own, my company officers learned to either call me in the middle of the night or be standing in front of my office as I walked into Bancroft. It’s always better to learn of bad news traveling up the chain toward you than down the chain from leadership!

My intel sources tell me it was a mid with 5 stitches in the forehead.

To quote my source: “The fun lamp is now out.”
 
Too funny. [emoji23][emoji23]

As my DH says, “It’s one big game of cops and robbers. Of course, the robbers eventually become cops.”

I say it’s one big leadership lab, with regular explosions, boilovers, unexpected consequences, happy discoveries, big stinking messes and (add your own).
 
As my DH says, “It’s one big game of cops and robbers. Of course, the robbers eventually become cops.”

I say it’s one big leadership lab, with regular explosions, boilovers, unexpected consequences, happy discoveries, big stinking messes and (add your own).

Absolutely....both descriptions are 100% correct. DW refers to it as "the jail school".
 
Class of 2023 broke the record for the shortest Air Force week! It lasted only an hour and a half before it got locked up for some pranks going too far. Dant said they might open it up but that is only speculation.

Hey, don't sell us short. We actually made it one hour and FIFTY (!) minutes before it got locked up.

As far as I am aware, the water balloons that caused a head injury and the bodily fluid water balloons were separate occurrences in separate wings of Bancroft.

Will AF week be unlocked? We shall see...
 
From what I understand, the bleachers and weights in the pool damaged the pool tiles and the Mids that were responsible for it were asked to identify themselves and retrieve everything. I also understand that they have been places on 60 day restriction - no going home for Thanksgiving!
 
Something here doesn't make sense....most "spirit" pranks are done by the Plebes, but greasing stairs and deck plates has to be upperclass messing with Plebes...

Last year, the greasing of the deck plates and stairs was effected by Plebes to mess with Plebes in other Companies. You can imagine what ensues when some unsuspecting Plebe chops along and makes that quick turn as they hit the deck plates. Knocked out permanent teeth and concussions were had, last year. Yeah, hilarious. :rolleyes2:

I did some stupid stuff when I was young, but I never caused physical harm to anyone. Of course, I didn't go to a service academy (something I usually capitalize, but not this week.)
 
Last year, the greasing of the deck plates and stairs was effected by Plebes to mess with Plebes in other Companies.

This is wrong on many levels....Plebes have enough to deal with without worrying about getting stabbed in the back by their classmates.
"Don't bilge your classmate" was probably the first thing taught during Plebe Summer after the 5 basic responses.

Class of 2023 broke the record for the shortest Air Force week! It lasted only an hour and a half before it got locked up for some pranks going too far. Dant said they might open it up but that is only speculation.

By the way, since when do Spirit pranks rely on official sanction or approval ? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ? (or when Delta Tau Chi got put on double secret probation ?). Sounds like its time to play Cops and Robbers !
 
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