<p>While I was at NASS, my squad leaders told many stories about the pranks and raids of Air Force and Army Week. And to celebrate Navy's upcoming victory over Air force, I think it would be neat to hear some of the stories from past mids of their pranks on plebes and upperclassmen.
My favorite story is where a group of mids took a mattress, rolled it into a tight roll, duct taped it into it's rolled form, and placed the mattress into a ceiling tile, cut the duct tape causing the mattress to expand to it's previous form and watch the unfortunate mid try to extract their mattress from the ceiling.</p>
<p>We never had semester exchange cadets, only exchange weekends and not during football game weekends.</p>
<p>However, we did always have an exchange company officer, always Army while I was there. Offices were moved in toto and set up in the head. This was back in the days of real newspapers. We stuffed his entire office one night with a week of the entire brigade's old newspapers (before recycling) to the point that he could not even open the door. Each night one of the old cannons, torpedo's , etc would usually end up in his office. One year, one drove an old clunker automobile which obviously had no sentimental value. We demolished it at lunch one day. This was in the days of $3000 cars so a brigade wide contribution of a dollar each bought him a very nice replacement car.</p>
<p>AF did not even become an annual event until in the '70s.</p>
<p>well hard to top the Mids painting that Air Force Jet all Blue and Gold! ;)</p>
<p>Priceless!!!!</p>
<p>There's also pranks between upperclass and plebes, seeing as I currently don't have a mattress in my rack :P.</p>
<p>well if it is any consolation, my mid is protecting and defending his 2C room- seems he and his roomate have a prisoner from USAFA with them this semester! :eek:</p>
<p>USS Bancroft is patroling USAFA today..see
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<p>You should be careful [or at last sensible] nonetheless. There are limits to what the administration will or can tolerate.</p>
<p>My understanding is that a mid may be facing a court martial or, at least, serious administrative punishment for a "demonstration" that went too far this week already.</p>
<p>My Mid said that whiteworks uniforms have suddenly reappeared on the Yard, and the wearers weren't around during Plebe Summer. It seems that bus driver hats/uniforms are hard to find this week.....</p>
<p>Our plebe was telling us about the stories he has heard about previous pranks. He was excited about this week. Seems they have a "zoomie" in their company too. We just reminded him that he worked hard to get into the academy - now is not the time to blow it and get thrown out.</p>
<p>A court martial for an Air Force week prank? That seems a little far-fetched. We will be "watching" the game from the sea. It's going to be an interesting game! I hope the streak continues.</p>
<p>Apparently AF week festivities have been started up and then "locked down" several times this week due to activities getting out of hand, and they currently remain "locked down."</p>
<p>being led away in handcuffs might seem a bit far-fetched too . . .</p>
<p>The offense I heard about was a serious offense. I guess things haven't been much better at Air Force. They had Navy week locked down. At least they will be able to play football. Go Navy! Beat Air Force!</p>
<p>hope you all got to listen to the game! "Watching" it on game tracker leaves a lot to be desired, but the end result was so worth it! And a huge congrats to Bobby's mom- if you are still posting on here, what a HUGE play!</p>
<p>all i had to "watch" the game was my small screen on my phone on the ESPN website. Navy seems to be on it's way to another term with the commander in chief's trophy!</p>
<p>I would encourage parents of 2011, 2012, 2013(?) midshipmen to attend the 2010 Navy Air Force game in Colorado Springs. It's such a beautiful setting, always a capacity crowd, and the games are pretty competitive. Weather was fabulous, exciting flyovers, Admiral and Mrs. Rempt were in attendance, and the game was unpredictable. Navy mids were well behaved though some practically got run over by Air Force cadets at the end of the march on. Our hotel was pretty spectacular and we had a great time!</p>
<p>Anyone know where Adm. Rempt is hanging his cover these days? I assume he's retired?</p>
<p>I believe the Rempts live in Montana. BTW, Mrs. Rempt looked very fit.</p>
<p>Did mids do the "I believe" jump in honor of the Rempts?</p>
<p>^^^^ I would venture to say they did!!! The "I Believe" chant is alive and well at all the football games..... as is the "Fire It UP"!!!! They are the 2 that get THE LOUDEST response from the Mids by far!</p>