In my entire career I’ve never seen a blanket party. I guess things are much different now.
Those activities probably passed about the same time the Shellback initiation, Chiefs initiation etc went out the door.
The BP was (probably) cruel and unusual punishment but it was effective.
Not many repeat offenders, unless they were into pain and enjoyed getting scrubbed with an extremely hard bristled brush.
Referred to as ‘Deck Plate Justice’, no officers, no Senior Enlisted, just the guys taking care of business.
The only time I had seen such shenanigans was always in conjunction with unwanted sexual advances, thievery and COMPLETE scroungery.
The ‘punishment’ wasn’t inflicted on suspects, they were caught in the act etc.....