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

Pvt....I need a flux capasitor....find one!

How about the chem light batteries or the BA-100N S.T. Rings? Or sending someone off to check out the keys to the Humvee. And for Artillery specific, a high-angle retaining pin.

I once sent a cadet and 2nd lieutenant to get a fallopian tube for a HUMMV. You'd think college would make that impossible but, alas, no :)

While stationed in Okinawa, as the Company Armorer I was constantly asked for these stupid items by the newbies sent on fools errands by their squad or Plt. leaders, I finally got back at the guys while preparing to embark for a 6 month float, I took the cardboard separators from several empty cases for grenades, pulled them apart, spray painted some in yellow, OD green and red,(blue had to be signed out by senior officers only!) by the end of the first day I had one Lt., 3 Plt. Sgt.'s and various squad and fireteam leaders standing in front of me asking how the hell I came up with so many different colored "grid squares" for the newbies! I told them if they didnt stop sending the cherries to me for stupid stuff, I would come up with something for the "can of night vision" requests too! (I had an uneventful, peaceful time after that, not to mention several rounds of beer bought at different locales)

When I was a new boot fresh out of tank school, the senior LCPL on my tank sent me to the maintenance shop for a can of air.

I was told to find batteries for the chem lights, and get the keys to the hummer

myself and a friend once had a brand new PFC searching where to check the brake fluid for 20 minutes on an LMTV

Sending young dumb airman on search for AN/ASH reciever- 1000 feet of flight line...buckets of prop wash....good times.

Hurricane watch, get me a yard of flight line and a box of 3/8" holes. One can of 970MHz RF. The "bucket of prop wash" doesn't go, ask someone who has served in Navy aboard a training carrier. There WAS such a thing, to clean salt scum off props on the trainers...

These were my favs:

1. Sent the FNG to check the brake fluid in the LMTV. I bout died when he came back saying he found it and it was ok.

2. Chemlight batteries.

3. "Go ask Supply for 50 feed of chow line."