Blanket Parties. Have you experienced one?

I was the recipient of one of those. Not cool. And other things that were not cool either. Officially, I can see they would not be condoned or endorsed, but the impossible task of being the man against several others who would tacitly deny such an act taking place proved frustrating.

kind of like the mysterious way that my civilian clothes suddenly appeared in my dirty clothes bag during Basic, which led to me being summarily dropped from bypass training because of my Civil Air Patrol background.

All our civilian clothes were LOCKED in a storage area adjacent to the day room for our flight, so I would like to know how that came about. Did my TI conspire to do this, or was there a key that other airman recruits had access to, which they brazenly took and then searched for my baggage to find my stuff, and then put it in my dirty clothes bag, which was subsequently "found" by my TI who inspected my gear and living space while I was returning from drill with the assistant TI, and I was singled out, and taken up inside our dorm and confronted by all this alone, while everyone else was outside.

And this same TI also decided to violently rip a handful of chest hair that was above the neckline of my T-shirt under my fatigue shirt, and insisted that I had not properly "shaved" that morning. It had been there before, but why was that done then?

I did exactly what I was asked to do, and never was one to cause trouble, and because of my CAP background, I demonstrated solid military bearing and compliance with what I was asked to do.

So, there is a lot of things that just simply do not add up back then, and it still bothers me to this day as to why this nonsense went on, unless bullying was encouraged, and my compliant behavior was viewed as being passive or submissive behavior that was not liked. Who knows? I have no idea, and my training records were not a part of the data I requested from NARA 2 years ago. That is a bit telling also.

So, that was my "welcome" into the Air Force...

Never experienced one.  However, I will confess to instigating one.  Onboard ship we had an individual who refused to do anything regarding a fire drill, no matter how much NJP / extra duty was assigned to him.  After months of dealing with the less than useful individual we had an actual fire onboard and this individual refused to do anything....which ended up with two other individuals being badly burned.  Two nites later, the individual that refused to partake in any drills or participate when the real thing happened learned a very harsh lesson.  Did I feel badly?  Absolutely NOT.  Do I regret doing it?  Even today, many, many years later I still feel that less than useful individual deserved much more than he got - in spite of the broken bones and bruises he suffered.

Yeah we had a "Dirty" as the drill's called it. We were told after a field problem that if "dirty" didn't get a shower we would all get smoked the next day. Well we went to the DFAC got green scrub pads, scrub brushes and powdered soap and put it all in the milk crate. We then went against the drill and said to  the man dude need to shower or stuff is going to happen and we are going to get smoked. well dude didn't shower so we had a 2 hr smoke session after training day was over. After lights out we grabbed his sheets, and him carried him into the shower, then proceeded to turn on all the water, and dumped a whole box of soap on him. we ( the platoon) then started to scrub every part that we could get to,  he was clean once we were done. Never had that problem again.