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Back in my Uncle Sugar's Flying Circus days we liked to chuck water balloons from just about anywhere. Airplanes, cars, dorm room winders.

Never got caught except for almost one time from a dorm winder at Keesler AFB. We were in the tech school dorms and they new pingers (recruits from basic) had to walk by our dorm to go to chow. The looked like scared sheep as they wandered around looking for the chow hall.

Well, nothing better for a target than a no winger pinger (Airman basic, no stripe). We nailed a couple good and then as I released my last balloon at a guy in dress blues I saw a flash of light on his shirt. A flash about where a Lt. would wear that butter bar.

Holy mackerel, it was a real Lt. and the balloon smacked him in the should just drenching him and knocking his cap off.

Feel don't fail me now was all I thought. We hid on the roof while the SPs searched the dorm bay. The commander was called but everyone kept their mouths shut. The Lt. didn't get a good look at us but he knew which winder it came from. This dorm was pretty wild, Bay of Pigs was the name of this one floor. When I arrived from basic and entered the dorm there was a guy staggering down the hallway who offered me a slug of Wild Turkey. As I had a little sip another guy was loading up a 5 foot bong at the water fountain. Ah the 70s. We didn't even wear out hats most of the time on base.