What's some stupid things you've done as an LT or seen LTs do?

I always had my young lieutenants’ 6.

Working at the clearing barrel at the Finance office Army in payday. Back when.
Have seen over twenty LTs improperly clear their weapon and fire it. Not once hitting the inside of the barrel.

One shot between my legs missed me but but our office sign .
Had them load and clear their weapon as one of my clerk's counted to a hundred making sure each time was done properly.

One showed up with a rubber practice .45

Never did their enlisted guard have a problem clearing.
NCO dispersing

When I was the acting supply sergeant in Germany after getting back from Desert Storm, I purchased a box of Typewriter erasers at the SSSC store (the ones that are shaped like pencils but instead of lead, the core is an eraser). I called the Plt Ldrs down (we had 3 brand new 2LT's) and issued each of them "Antenna and spaghetti cord contact cleaners" on a hand receipt. They thought it was the most high speed thing they'd seen in months.

Ok so way the hell back in 1978, we were in Germany my first assignment. We were on Oberursel during Reforger. We were just getting set up the first night, at least a couple feet of snow. Well to get to the stupidity as we were trying to get a trailer put into position somehow the LT thought he could stop the trailer, he had his hand on the tongue the trailer and it was smashed between the truck and the trailer. He was in bad shape, they medevac'd him down off the mountain that night.

When your platoon sergeant, or later your first sergeant, says, "Sir, we need to talk......"

The asian LT has his finger up his nose so much in the field we came up with horrible asain bugar jokes. He used to walk everywhere with his finger up his nose. A horrible thought was that nose picker was the LT of the unit that was direct support of the unit that got Saddam Hussien. It must have been paint by numbers easy for him not to screw that up.

As a attack plt. Sargent I had a new LT. On his second assignment fresh from Korea to Campbell. He showed up on his second day comes into my office and tells me this is how we are are going to run maintenance. It was so stupid that I said yes sir. Within a week battalion CO CALLED ask me what the F did I think I was doing. Told CO exactly what was told to me after he chewed my ass for listening to a young LT he had a face to face with my LT. Next day LT walks in to my office and says it's your maintenance program you run it. Lol

As a lt I hope I didn’t make to many mistakes . As an e3 we had a 2nd LT that tried reading a map and leading the way. That didn’t go well

As a Drill Sergeant in a reserve unit after I left active duty, I was given the pleasure of having a cadet shadow me for three of his four years at the Citadel and giving him his first salute as an officer. The privilage to be able to teach young men to be good leaders before they ever have any authority is more rewarding than the laughs I got from a new LT messing up. I will never forget the LT that jumped face first into the "mud" in a rice paddy in Korea on contact during a training exercise though.

Don't try this at home:
I was a platoon leader in the 1/508 infantry (Abn.). My CO instructed me to clear a room occupied by my men to make room for the battalion chaplain's office. Being somewhat deficient upstairs, I remedied the my CO that the regulations prohibited clearing barracks space that is being used to house soldiers for office use. He told me that he was not going to tell the battalion commander no, and to do as I was told. I decided that I was in the right, so I went to the division housing office to report anonymously what was being done against the regulations in my battalion. I soon found out that there is no such thing as anonymous. In the long run, I survived my own idiocy. The lesson learned is, just do as you're told.