<p>Anyone have any intresting or funny spirit missions? If anyone was at this years Summer Seminar (week one), you may remember “Wicked” C-10 going around and painting all the windows and mirrors…haha, I was in C-10, and boy was that fun…but does anyone else have some good ones?</p>
<p>Someone stole the "Steal" off the Honor Wall...Heheh...Not too original but still funny.</p>
<p>Someone "borrowed" by class's plaque from the class wall before Thanksgiving... don't know if it's back yet.</p>
<p>When I was a four degree, we did many spirit missions. The two classes following mine were pretty much forbidden from them and threatened with huge punishments if they did them. This year it's not quite like it was when I was a four degree, but I will ay my class is a lot more tolerating than 04 and 05 were when, spirit-wise. So 09 has it pretty good in that respect... not that I'm encouraging spirit missions or anything... I couldn't do that! ;)</p>
<p>UNcynical and Shines...does the Academy do anything special for Christmas? I was reading about West Point's tradition, with the chairs and the cigars and everything....does Air Force do anything like this?</p>
<p>We have to get spirit missions approved, which pretty much defeats the purpose. The best spirit missions would never get approved. </p>
<p>In a way, it seems like you can get away with anything as long is it's funny as hell. </p>
<p>You guys need to check out edodo.org. A lot of the humor on the site might not make much sense yet, but you can find stories of spirit mission dating from way back.</p>
<p>What are some of the spirit missions? You guys talked about doing them but not what they are about! Details!!!</p>
<p>Ive heard about some and they were quite funny.</p>
<p>At SS, we learned about the cadets who painted 04 on the rock face and got in loads of trouble. THen one cadet was telling me that when they were freshmen, they went into the Air Gardens (forbidden for freshman) and put their hats on the statues. Spirit missions seem pretty fun to me!</p>
<p>Yep the '04 is still there and probably always will be. Except that someone in my class is bond to change that 4 to a 9.</p>
<p>I'll share some of about spirit missions, although I can neither confirm nor deny the role I took in any of them...</p>
<p>-Nukings are forbidden now. Usually when it was an upperclassman's birthdya, the four degrees would capture the person (who was usually kicking and screaming) and take them outside, at which point the person was covered with a variety of things (i.e. soup, mustard, ketchup, milk, anything else messy). If there was a tree and duct tape was accessible, taping the person to the tree first was an option.
-Hall brawls are pretty much free-for-all wrestling fiascos in the halls. The four degrees are always there (and usually instigate it) and it involves at least one other class (and usually ends up being four degrees against everyone else).
-Carrier landings are when a long hall is covered in water and soap. Think "big slip and slide."
-First shirt-first snow is when it snows a significant amount for the first time each year and the four degrees grab the first sergeant (a second class cadet) in their squad and go throw them in the snow (usually in very little clothes).
-"Borrowing" other squadrons' mascots or other stuff from their squads that they'll obviously miss
-Waking up very early and banging on upperclassmens' doors "basic-style" then escaping quickly (only works if there is a room nearby to hide in)
-Same idea as above but calling the "final" minute (announcing it is 10 or 15 minutes until everyone has to be in seats for breakfast) at about 3 or 4 in the morning, making the upperclassmen all think they overslept; very few will actually look at their clocks before getting dressed
-Putting baby oil on all the door knowbs in a different squad
-"Borrowing" golf carts to go joy-riding on the t-zo in the middle of the night; sometimes they'd end up on spirit hill (but this is now considered very bad, so I don't recommend it)
-Sneaking into Ops Center in the morning to play a song of our choosing instead of Reveille in the morning to wake everyone up
-"Borrowing" all the toilet seats from another squad
-"Decorating" the terrazzo area with squad (or even class) pride in mind. During 07's fall training event, everyone woke up one of the mornings ot find thousands of feet of red duct tape all over, patches of snow painted red, a red flag on spirit hill, a red cape and hat on the Risner statue, paintings on all the glass in all the stairwells and many of the glass doors with class-related sayings, red spirit banners and our class's motto hung in Mitchell Hall.
-Throwing people (including the wing commander) in the fountain on the terrazzo in the middle of the night
-General bafoonery that is usually done at night when everyone else should be sleeping.</p>
<p>The main point with spirit missions is that their spiritedness should be evident and not easily nisconstrued as disrespectful, vandalism, etc. Also, it should hurt anyone or permanently destroy property. If it's messy, just be willing to clean it up. That's all I'll say for now, besides the fact that I can guarantee my class isn't done with spirit misions of our own (despite how strange it may seem for firsties to do spirit missions). One more thing - as a diclaimer, all spirit missions are supposed to be approved and I don't really encourage otherwise. The end.</p>
<p>"Also, it should hurt anyone or permanently destroy property."</p>
<p>you mean shouldnt?</p>
<p>Those "missions" sound completely against anything and everything we would be taught at the academy... how the heck do they get approved?</p>
<p>"you mean shouldnt?"</p>
<p>Yes, typo.</p>
<p>"Those "missions" sound completely against anything and everything we would be taught at the academy... how the heck do they get approved?"</p>
<p>You're not taught these things per se. FUnny things just tend to happen when you get together large groups of very smart people (which is a matter of perspective) who are bored.</p>
<p>Also, I think only one of the things mentioned above was approved. But I must mention that it used to be a bit different in needing to get things approved. </p>
<p><em>not trying to set a bad example, really!</em> haha</p>
<p>"Those "missions" sound completely against anything and everything we would be taught at the academy... how the heck do they get approved?"</p>
<p>I think this is a misconception that arises from the image we encourage. Sure, we march around in sharp uniforms, live ostenisbly austere lives and study all day, but underneath all of the military image stuff we're still just a bunch of young people hell-bent on having fun.</p>
<p>"but underneath all of the military image stuff we're still just a bunch of young people hell-bent on having fun."</p>
<p>Thats it...im filing my form 036b! If its not all study, military training and constant drilling im not interested :-P :-P:-P</p>
<p>That's ok. We have a special club for the uber tools. We call it Honor Guard. You should look into it.</p>
<p>Surfnkid -- I just want to thank you again for all this valuable information. It's really a big help and is giving us a flavor for what life is actually like. You, too UNcynical! You too have really made a difference.</p>
<p>Ah spirit missions. </p>
<p>In Basic we threw our Flight NCO into the fountain...Yep...Some other people tried but the BCT Commander showed up and stopped them. </p>
<p>Right after our squad commander turned 21, we filled his room with balloons.</p>
<p>In August I think, we stole five guidons from a neighboring group the day before a noon meal formation, it was sweet. Me and a friend of mine did it at about 3 in morning, sneaking all over the place. For one, you aren't supposed to go into other squads as a four degree, two, we were stealing, three, we sure weren't in a proper uniform. They were sending out emails to the wing "Return so and so's guidons immediately" We got in a little bit of trouble, but not much really. </p>
<p>We did first shirt first snow sort of, but got caught by some overzealous guy at the bottom of the stairs, but our sup threw himself in the snow anyways.</p>
<p>We've had a bunch of hall brawls, and about 7 four digs got their heads shaved by other four digs. </p>
<p>We did have water fights, but on of our three degrees feel and had to get stitches on her forehead, so that stopped that.</p>
<p>Also, none of you join Honor Guard. NOT COOL. No. </p>
<p>I forgot, during Navy and Army football game weeks, you get to old Annapolis and West Point cadets down, shave their heads, and steal their clothes and wear them, which means that you are an upperclassmen and you get the priveleges, as long as you have their uniform. And until you get caught. It's great.</p>
<p>"That's ok. We have a special club for the uber tools. We call it Honor Guard. You should look into it."</p>
<p>Heh heh nice. I am probably one of the most idealistic people i know so take what i say with a grain of salt :-P :-P</p>
<p>But it is nice to know that some fun does occure dispite all the images presented.</p>
<p>"I forgot, during Navy and Army football game weeks, you get to old Annapolis and West Point cadets down, shave their heads, and steal their clothes and wear them, which means that you are an upperclassmen and you get the priveleges, as long as you have their uniform. And until you get caught. It's great."</p>
<p>do you mean hold them down?
That seems pretty stealthy.</p>
<p>Also...do they get any of you guys?</p>
<p>Yeah, when we were out doing that, the upperclassmen went and trashed our rooms. And the Air Force cadets at the other academies had the same thing happen to them.</p>