http://taskandpurpose.com/funniest-punishments-military-reddit/This one got me laughing...
The "suicidal” private caught messing with a girl in basic.I was in a gender-mixed company in basic. The third floor of the
barracks was split with females on one half and males on the other.
Males were not allowed in the female half and vice-versa. My platoon was
out back practicing throwing grenade bodies and a window on the female
side of the third floor opened and a male snuck out of the window onto
the ledge. It was immediately obvious to everyone, including our drill
sergeant, that he had been in there messing around with a female and
another drill sergeant must have come down the hall, forcing him to get
out on to the ledge so he wouldn’t get caught. Our drill sergeant looked
at the guy for a minute and then yelled really sarcastically, "don’t do
it private, you have lots to live for.” Then they put him on suicide
watch, and made him hand over his belts and tie and shoelaces and
everything that he could hang himself with, and made him drag his newly
bare mattress out into the hallway next to the fire guard desk and sleep
out there every night until we graduated four weeks later. And they
made his battle buddy sleep on the floor next to him for the first week.