We used to send guys on wild goose chases for stupid stuff. They'd end up wasting an entire day looking for something that doesn't exist(lumber stretcher, drywall tubing, etc.). If someone came into your shop looking, you'd just refer them along to someone else. I remember one kid got all the way to S4, the battallion supply officer, looking all over Okinawa for 20' of falopian tube. Same kid went to Medical to protest that he didn't need another pap smear because he had had one in homeport.
"Dietz, go to Alfa Co. and get a box of A.I.R. brake fluid and a CM punch for the Deuce and a half." Two hours later Dietz shows up rubbing his arm and looking pissed. "You guys are a__holes."
1) The truck has air brakes.
2) A CM is a Construction Mechanic, they punch hard.