Fire the Torpedoes!
We had a manning shortage and I ended up working in the fore-ends of a submarine and firing torpedoes worth over $6.5 million.
I know that in the movies it looks like the captain fires a torpedo by pressing a button in the control room, but in fact it only sends a signal to the forward torpedo room where a guy (in this case me) operates a handle with a small button on the top (like the hand-break on an old car) that actually propels them out of the tube with a burst of compressed air.
I ‘fired’ 6 Mk-48s that day worth (I was told at the time) $1.1 million each. Of course the expenditure was not actually so high because they were retrieved. Story credit: Reddit / [deleted]