Not quite the same but certainly in the same league....Manchester Belle Vue Street TA Centre to Manorbier Artillery Range, Wales. 200+ miles on A and B roads.....over 5 hours in a noisy, bouncing, slow Land Rover.
Setting up the kit to test and Fire the Missiles on the Range only to discover a critical cable wasn't there !
Cue young Gunner Icely......"How do you fancy driving back to Manchester to get the missing cable" ! ^%&*%^&*$ hell says young Gunner Icely ! Later that day he returned cable in hand to save the day !
Some years later he was serving in Iraq and was shifting sh1te from an Army Camp to a rubbish tip.....he stopped an Army Convoy going the other way and said "I can't put my finger on it, but something isn't quite right about the stretch of road your Convoy is entering" ! The Officer in charge was a bit pissed off, but sent a Team forward to check it out......and they found the biggest EOD ever encountered to date hidden by the roadside, just waiting for their convoy !
Gunner Icely was 'Mentioned in dispatches' for his diligence that day. He was one of the daftest, scruffiest, most annoying Lads I ever met in my 15 years in the TA, but he saved a lorra lorra lives that day.