Anybody know where I can find a bucket of steam and bottle of bulkhead remover?

ID10Ts need to be filled out before BA1100Ns can be issued....

It is great fun when it is within the ranks, but in my first deployment, I had an O-1 platoon leader try to crank me and send me for a box of grid squares. So I took all the maps out of his kit, cut them into squares by lat/lon and gave them back to him. When confronted by the platoon sgt, he maintained a straight face, until I told him I thought the LT wanted to familiarize himself with the terrain by doing jigsaw puzzles. The CO made the LT tape all his maps back together after he heard that comment.... :) That LT was a rockstar at land nav after that....
some ones we pulled (we tended to have sharp people so we needed plausible or detailed stuff)
1) chem light refills: part of the new recycle efforts, should look like a bulky syringe with some powder in it. You stick it into the dead chemlight, suck out the fluid, and re-inject the refreshed fluid. You might have to shake them a little harder to get them to light up.... and yes, we made some and had supply in on it.
2) Squelch Oil: special oil for radio connections, reduces noise on the frequency
3) Check the track suspension by jumping on it (use a track gauge as a prop for measuring the vertical travel)
4) tell someone to loosen HMMV tire bolts in sequence (instead of the star/even pattern)... those last two bolts are almost impossible to get off (I bent 3 breaker bars and broke a wrench, and yeah, I figured it out about 2/3rd of way through, but I am stubborn and it was fun breaking stuff and watching them bet when I'd give up, no mechanic steered me wrong after that out of sheer terror that I would make whatever they said work anyhow)
5) related - Frequency grease: someone having radio problems, take off a couple connectors and exclaim how dry they are. "don't you have any frequency grease, that will fix your signal strength problems"... and "make sure when you order some, you get the right kind for HF (or whatever their radio type is)"

Once while in processing a 'cruit through CBRN, had a buddy from supply open a chem light and pour contents into a paper cup. We "accidentally" knocked over the cup creating a"toxic agent spill". I threw on a mask, tossed him one of my stripped maintenance - status masks with no harness. Never seen anyone stuggle harder to figure out how to put it on.

I was a bad specialist.

I sent an LT looking to a blank adapter for an M-9 per an E-7 request I had an NSN for him as well just to keep it official. As a Spc I had an E-5 looking for a M-16 barrel shortener so I could make the M-16's in the unit M-4's.

When I was in construction we would be laying the roof and would place a piece of plywood that was a hair too short and tell one of the newbies to go get the "plywood stretcher" so we could make it fit.

Another old favorite was during an ARTEP we sent a new 2LT to supply to get a bottle of black out drive fluid.

Essayons! :)

We used to send newbies to the kennels for a bottle of lubricant called K-9P

Or a canopy light... or keys to the drop zone.

I just remembered an incident where telling a new private to go get a can of squelch and that he would be in big trouble if he showed up without it backfired on a young sergeant.

The private took a long weekend (and was logged as AWOL on Monday) before shamefacedly reporting to the first sergeant, asking for advice because he had not been able to find a can of squelch and he *really* didn't want to get in trouble with his fire-team leader. The net result was no Article 15 for the private and a loooonnnng chat that evening in the sergean major's office involving the sergeant and his NCO chain.

So Platoon Daddy, SFC Bradford and I were at NTC in January 1999. It was bone cold and we were putting canteen cups on MRE heaters laid out on the table to heat up water for our hot chocolate. SFC B was using a chemlight to stir up his cocoa and then 2LT Fahey walked into the tent and looked around. He saw that we had hot drinks and asked how we got hot water. Without a flinch, SFC B told him: "Heated Chemlight".

I went out to fuel the generator and then have a smoke. SFC B took out the trash. We happened to go back into the tent at the same time and walked in to an interesting sight. 2LT Fahey sitting on the ground with about 15 opened chemlight packs....

I've been sent after a box of grid squares....fortunately, I had been forewarned.