Some funny things happen in the training commands, sometimes due to
student stress (helmet fires) and sometimes for miscellaneous
reasons. I never did anything extraordinary (good or bad) myself,
but I did know some interesting people.

One guy took the wrong aircraft on his solo. Got his assignment from
the duty, went to maintenance to review the records, but somehow
ended up preflighting and strapping into the wrong bird. The
squadron called him up on radio (by his last name) when he was in the
practice area and said "Look out on your wing..." (the tail number is
also on the wing in HUGE letters) I was jealous because he got to do
the solo over again.

Another guy had already got kicked out of the program during API
(ground school). Couldn't get past the navigation test, which
emphasized, among other things, fuel management. Oddly enough he
already had a private ticket. One weekend he rented a plane and
crashed it after running out of gas. Gotta admit the writing was on
the wall for that one... it's funny because no one was hurt. The
plane was totalled but no post crash fire.

There was a story going around about an international student
(English not his mother tongue) who was in the home field break on a
solo and mixed up runway 23 and 32 (the field had both).

Actually, one of the dumbest things I did was when a primary
instructor asked me a serious question, what did I want to fly? I
confidently (cockily?) said I wanted dirigibles, because then I'd
have the half-wing pin. I wish I knew what the hell I was thinking
when I said that.