I went through P.I. with platoon 446 (November 1954-January 1955). A lot of funny things happened during those 13 weeks but of course we weren't allowed to laugh if there was a D.I. present. I swore that after graduation I would spend the first several days of boot leave laughing about things that happened in our platoon. One event stands out in my memory.
It was a Saturday evening and the D.I.s had left us alone in the squadbay to shine shoes, clean rifles or write letters. One recruit was attempting to shine his shoes sitting on his foot locker but couldn't seem to stay awake. Eventually he gave up trying. Another recruit saw him doze off and retrieved a can of aerosol shave cream from his foot locker (I don't know how he was able to bring this back from the PX since we were required to use tubes of Barbasol shave cream). In any event, he proceeded to spray a pile of shave cream about six inches high on the head of the dozing recruit. Just as he finished, a JDI came into the squadbay. Of course we were called to attention and the once-dozing recruit stood there at attention totally unaware that he had this pile of shave cream on his bald head. The DI immediately walked over to this recruit and stood there eyeball-to- eyeball with him for probably thirty seconds, and then put his hand into the shave cream and wiped it across the recruit's face while saying "You silly s–t.!" He was done with "sleeping beauty",however, and proceded to harass those of us who were smirking. How the DI kept a straight face I'll never know but I guess he had seen a lot of "silly s–ts" during this tour.