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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/AF_Blades on 2024-11-24 20:20:43+00:00.
So there I was as an AMMO troop E-5 for on Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI). I was setting up a gas cylinder for some of our equipment. We had never used this space before and it wasn't properly set up for our equipment. No anchors on the walls and no gas cylinder racks. The main feature of the room was a long steel table that was bolted to the cement floor. To secure the cylinder, I used 2 - 5000lb munitions straps to a table leg. I figured, problem solved.
During the inspection, this inspector comes up to me and says that he is going to have to hit me with a major finding....but he was willing to drop it to a minor if I could fix it before he left the area. The finding...the Technical Order for our equipment stated that the cylinder needed to be in a gas storage rack or securely CHAINED to a fixed object. As my load straps were not chains, I had violated the TO instructions.
I was able to borrow some stantion chain, used for airshow crowd control, and a tiny bolt and nut. I seriously doubted the chain would hold 20lbs, certainly not a full gas cylinder. The inspector said that was great and dropped it to a minor.
I reported all of this up my chain of command with varying degrees of WTF responses. That minor finding never made it into the final report.