Posted: 2/22/2008 7:43:40 PM EDT
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what would be the best, most funny, things to send to the recruits in army infantry basic? we have 4 family members in basic right now and the whole family is looking for the best stuff to send as gag gifts and to assure peak laughter fo all and pushups for the recruits.... mail more than 3 letters daily gets 25 pushups per letter, they all just laugh it off |
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I always right "50 Pushups" In big bright letters on the back. Or I write "Pvt XXX is gay, Dont ask dont tell" Basically anything to make them stand out I think gets em smoked. When one of my friends went through I put "Commander of Ft Benning xxx" then the address as normal....that one actually caused some sort of a problem from what my friend said. 
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I did intercept a letter before it went out, i trashed it... it said "I know toy think your drill sgt is hot, but you cannot ask him till after boot camp, remember in boot dont ask dont tell" and some go navy stickers, and 99Zulu comments we do not want them killed, just to have some fun and make the DS laugh i was thinking of a pink ballerina outfit and a camera, in a box, you know the ds will open it and see the letter which states how bad we wanna see pics of him pushing in the outfit |
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I wouldnt actually send them contraband though. I think they could get in trouble for that....somebody that knows for sure will be along to answer for sure. I did manage to vacum pack a whole tin of chew and my friend got it in a normal envelope. He said the only reason was it was perfect timing after they had been in the field for like a week so they had tons of mail and didnt look it all over. |
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My greatest (irrational) basic training mail fear was getting a used refrigerator or washing machine or something shipped to me with "embarrassing" items inside. I do not know why. Would be kinda funny to do it to someone else though. Even if you put nothing in it, it would be about the biggest "WTF  " moment ever. After all, what the heck is a PVT in BCT gonna do with a broken washing machine? 
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When I was an MTI, trainees could not have food sent to them. They got lots of push ups and flutter kicks with a cookie or a candy bar(still in wrapper) hanging out of their mouth. They really paid when they would get porn. At one time I had a huge porn collection. At open house on graduation day I would give back the porn or pic that the wife or girlfriend sent them when their mom or dad was standing there. That was always fun.  H. |
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I had a friend send a couple of interesting items. first was a really big box, full of packing foam. in the center of the box was a bubble wrapped package. In the bubble wrap was a giant wooden letter "Q" with a note: "thought I'd send you a letter, hope you don't have this one already" the other thing was recruiting literature. from every service except the one I was in BMT with. that happened every freekin day. |