What's your funniest "The Military Just Came Out Of Me" moment in the workplace?

My first day of BT. Just get of the cattle car. All the DI yell at us. I yell back to one one and called him sir. He followed me. Drop me a few times and one for good for fun. The DI was a fire red haired man. When we wait for our names to go to our platoon, I was praying that I would not get him and I did not. But 9 weeks later, he found me again and drop me again, when I recovered he shake my hands.

I was on patrol in my job as a police officer (I was also a 1SG in the National Guard at the time). I passed by a local high school around dismissal time and saw one of the JR ROTC cadets in front on the steps. He was in his dress greens with his garrison cap on backwards. I stopped and jumped out of the car and, shall I say, gave him a stern talking to. On the spot corrections are always proper.

First civilian position out of the military (after finishing grad school with a Master of Personnel and Employee Relations degree). I had a temporary assignment at a Texaco Refinery to resolve some "old" labor relations issues. While reading through one, I noticed the complaint was that the "Employee ran over a Tank". My first thought was "what in the hell was he driving!? Fortunately, I did not ask anybody about it... The "Tank" in the report was a 600,000 gallon oil storage tank that he put to much oil in, not an M1 Abrams as I initally thought! Lesson learned: Terminology from Military to Civilian can take some drastic changes!

Working in a large city ER, it was an asset to have that 'command' tone of voice when the injured drunks, rednecks, and idiots started rolling in on the weekends. "AT FREAKING EASE< SNOWBALL! Anymore crap out of you and you get that enema you don't need"

As a civilian with the Corps of Engineers, I attended a staff meeting where our boss emphasized the importance of IDPs. He meant Individual Development Plans. I asked him which project involved Internally Displaced Persons.

Soon after I had retired I answered my house phone with the number and insecure line. Told the person to standby while I got my wife on the phone.

The first time I told my girls high school basketball team in Maryland that practice was from 0800-1000 hours on Saturday and they all said what time is that? The funny thing is I told the same thing to a high school team of all military brats overseas and they all knew what time to be in the gym.

I used to be a firefighter. One of my fellow firefighters use to be my squad leader in the Army, and we were pretty good friends.
One day, the fire engine he was riding crashed and rolled over, right in front of me. There were two in there. The driver got himself out, but my buddy was trapped inside, suspended upside down. All I could do, was get in and support him until they could extricate him. I held and treated him, for 45 minutes while they pealed his leg out of the bent metal.
He was bleeding, hurting crying, and really pissed off. At one point he started to panic..."Get me the hell out of here!!!". Pulling and twisting.
Out of nowhere I yelled "AT EASE!"
He stopped.
Looked at me and said "Son of a bitch, I out rank you!"
It was so absurd, that we both laughed. He calmed down and let us do out job.
We got him out and to the ambulance.
He survived his injuries and came back to us.
That was 24 years ago. We still talk occasionally, and sometimes joke about it.

There are times when my 4 dogs (Shepherd, Beagle and 2 Chihuahuas) go into a massive barking fit and I shout "At ease!" The funniest thing is that they know what it means and they usually follow orders. The Shepherd and Beagle seem to have a better understanding and only have to hear the order once. The ankle biters have no discipline whatsoever!

I stopped by my brother's boat at his marina, which also happens to be home to a lot of blowboats. He and I were both submariners, so when I saw the guy across the dock from him wrestling with his sail I couldn't help but say "there are men working in the sail; do not raise, lower, rotate or radiate any mast or antenna". We both got it, but the people on the boat next to his looked confused.
I use the old "make a hole" on occasion, and if that fails or circumstance warrant a quicker reaction, bellowing "Hot soup coming through" usually gets the appropriate response.