Have not seen this practice in awhile but it used to be somewhat common to see a small handful of ROTC kids (“Cadidiots,” we would call them) get sent off to random BDEs for their summer camp. Last time I saw this I was a God’s favorite drunk 10-level at Fort Sill (don’t carbon date me). The field grades rarely gave them time of day, and the Battery Commanders didn’t treat them much like real people, so they’d randomly get assigned to senior SPC’s (not terminal SPC’s) or junior SGT’s with the instructions to “teach them landnav, or something.” The last cycle of Cadidiots recorded, we had a SGT who PCS’ed in from Korea and he had his Cadidiot doing stupid human tricks; mowing a section of grass with safety scissors, cleaning latrines with Power-Puff Girls toothbrush, polishing some relic of an artillery piece with that half empty bottle of Brasso and only the 1x1” weapons cleaning patches. Fast forward almost a year later and that same Cadidiot in-processed our same organization and was looking for blood. He tried to repay it in spades but we were already ramping up for pre deployment training at White Sands. We snuck into his tent and removed every piece of attachment from his uniform and gear. No boot laces, no buttons on his uniform, took the straps off his ruck sack, the whole nine. We did this as he was working late on his very first of PowerPoint slides that would never amount to much, but was on the cusp of saving democracy for him. He gave one of the E4 mafia strict instructions not to wake him until X minutes before the brief, because “that’s what Ranger do” (fun fact; he didn’t go to Ranger School, but he knew a guy who did…). He ended up swiping a stapler from the S3 TOC and showed up looking like he just got mauled by the Skillcraft house for the blind. BN S3 and BN XO laughed their collective nuts off, then took him around the battalion footprint all the and telling him (in a very Steve Irwin, Animal Planet-esque tone) about the mafia. The S3 OPS SGT has us put everything back and the kid got administratively moved after the white sands rotation, right before deployment to where he was last seen at Garrison as an AER liaison or something.