“blanket party”
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A blanket is thrown over the guest of honor and the party guests beat hell out of him through it. He can’t identify who was involved. Cake is served later.
A blanket party is something I do not think you could get by with today.
It was basically a punishment carried out by your peers. The only one I actually knew was in progress was in basic (even though a few others occurred with the Chicago group) was where someone threw a blanket over him, then a bunch hauled him to the showers and he was beaten. A web belt was fastened around him to keep the blanket on long enough for the others to be safely tucked in bed. The goal was complete anonymity thusly avoiding the Article 15 or Courts Martial.
I also heard of it given to suspected CID plants.
This might sound cowardly, but it was a form of peer justice I often heard of in the “old Army”.
I might add, the blanket party was non-lethal punishment.
Then we have lethal punishment, but this is a story for another day. This type of punishment I suspect has gone on in every war, even today’s.