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When you’re in the military, you have to expect that people will play pranks on you from time to time, but you can always get revenge.

What would you do if a student leader in your military training pranked you by punching your bowl of chili, ruining it and getting it all over your uniform?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so for revenge, he forced the student to report himself to the commanding officer, which got him yelled at in front of everyone.

Sure, it was petty, but sometimes that is what you have to do. Read through the full story below and see what you think of his revenge.

Don’t punch my food

So, the military has what’s called tech school, names may vary between branches and careers, but it is basically job training that you go to after basic training.

These seem like important jobs.

In mine, there were different volunteer or after school positions you could apply for and be given a different colored shoulder cord depending on what you got accepted for.

The relevant ones are in, ascending order of rank: green, yellow, and red. These are the student leaders who’d perform dorm inspections, march the squadron to and from class, form them up at the end of the day for debrief and report to the instructors for a variety of tasks, including when students are misbehaving.

Ok, this is odd.

So, the squadron red rope, as they are referred to, was in my class. He and another classmate had a bit of weird running joke between them at lunch where they’d punch each other’s food.

Not something I’d understood but it was their thing and it was all good between them, so no harm I guess. During one lunch I was with my class eating a particularly delicious bowl of chili. Not canned chili, I’m talking about the good stuff.

That is not at all funny.

Meanwhile, red rope and the other classmate do their thing and punch each other’s food while the rest of us eat, then red rope stands up and walks over to me and asks “hey (my name) you going to eat that chili?”

I immediately knew what he was going to do and told him in no uncertain terms to “don’t do it”. Well, red rope proceeds to do exactly that and land a firm right jab directly into my chili and laugh as he takes his seat.

Revenge is more than warranted.

I proceed to wipe chili off my uniform and tell him he had better get me a new bowl “right now”. Red rope heads out of the dining room to get me a new bowl, but comes back with a little condiment bowl of canned chili you’d put on a hotdog. Not my giant soup bowl of the good stuff that was being served.

I left the table to get myself a new bowl and eat somewhere else, many thoughts of how to get back were going through my mind. “Maybe violence was the answer?” I said to myself.

You have to be smart when plotting revenge.

“No a bowl of chili wasn’t worth being court marshaled. Maybe I’ll put some bacon in his food, he was on the kosher diet. No that would be considered religious discrimination.”

Then I had it, he’s a red rope, he’s the highest ranked student leader, he’s in charge of not only his classmates but in charge of all the other student leaders in the squadron and all other students by extension.

He has him in a difficult spot.

As a red rope it’s his duty to report misconduct to the instructors. After considering it I decided to confront him during a break from class.

I walked up to him with a cocky smirk and took a seat next to him. “Hey red rope, I told you not to punch my food and you still did and got chili all over me. Now I could go to the instructors about this, but seeing as you’re the red rope it’s your duty to report misconduct. Now I will give you the chance to be the good and responsible leader you’re supposed to be and report this yourself. Or, I can go to the instructors myself and tell them that the red ropes are abusing their classmates.”

This shouldn’t really be a big deal.

Red rope frowned and stood up before walking to the instructor office.

Now, I had thought he would go in there, report himself and get a weird look from the instructors before getting told to leave their office, because why would he report himself to them?

The commander is not at all happy.

What happened was so much better. Red rope was stood in front of the entire school house and yelled at for acting like a child and that as a leader he was supposed to be better than that.

Towards the end of the verbal reprimand the instructor told red rope. “I don’t care what your classmates did to provoke you. Don’t ever act out like that again.”

Good thing he didn’t lose his rank.

Red rope spoke up and informed the instructor that I had not done anything to provoke him. Round two of yelling was then started by the instructor. “Oh he didn’t do anything? So you’re just putting your hands in your classmate’s food for fun now? What the heck is wrong with you?”

I had to nearly bite my tongue off to stop myself from laughing. After red rope was done getting verbally abused in front of the school, we were dismissed back to class and for the rest of tech school my lunches were never punched again.

That sure is petty, and I’m sure the other guy really hates him for it, but what kind of person punches your chili?

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about the story.

This commenter says that the instructors are often the worst ones.

Let’s hope he learned his lesson.

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This commenter is too funny.

What kind of person wastes good chili?

It was a stupid prank, and he deserved to learn his lesson. Let’s just hope that the student leader doesn’t double down and come after him again.

The military has its own unusual culture, and everyone needs to live within it.