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A stupid prank we pulled while in Basic Military Training.
This happened in the middle of our 7 day field-camp out in the weeds. Throughout this camp, we had no access to showers, and the only way to stay "clean" was through this process called "powder bath" which happens at sun down.
What happens is that we'd all strip down to our briefs and powder ourselves with this white, "minty" powder all over, and even under our briefs. As you can imagine, not everyone appreciates the sensation this powder causes under there, and the sergeants would have to ensure that we do powder our "privates."
We'd queue up, 4 sections in front of our respective sergeants, walk up to him, pull the briefs OUTWARDS, and release it. (we call this ease spring-squeeze trigger) Nice big cloud of powder comes out, we pass and head back into clothes and call it a night. We fail, we'd end up doing that over and over again.
So there was this ONE guy, a clueless chap who didn't quite get into the platoon's good books. So instead of telling him the right way to be "inspected", we told him to head over to the sergeant, pull his briefs DOWN and release it so that the sergeant can be sure he powdered well.
So as he walked up to the sergeant, all of us took a step back.... all "Giggling" away like a bunch of school girls. Our sergeant looked at us wondering what nonsense we were up to, only to turn around to the chap's exposed crown jewels that went PLOP-POOF!!
I wish I could explain the local expletives that he hurled at us for that stunt, and the endless threats of confinement. We escaped though, cos our sergeant major thought it was pretty funny.
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