Man, what a bunch of hard asses!! Lighten up dudes. Any of ya’ll been in the service? WE used to do stuff like that to officers all the time. RMCS(SS), USN Ret.
I knew I guy who put a stick of Dentyne chewing gum in his ribbon display during an inspection, just to tweak an officer he didn’t like. I’m not saying that was OK to do (it wasn’t), but it was funny.
(Oh, and he didn’t get caught.)