Megan,
There was a certain Chinook unit that had Seventeen Hooks....seems somehow the paperwork got mis-shuffled from on high and the turn in order never made it to the unit which kept the "lost" aircraft on paper to boost the Readiness statistics.
My unit was not authorized the cute wee Mule vehicle as was the 1st Air Cav but over time with a bit of Midnight Requistioning we had a nice fleet of them all painted yellow with black numbers noting they belonged to the 205th.
Flying Chinooks made larceny a gentleman's sport....if we needed it and saw it...we took it.
We once relieved the USAF of the responsibility of safe guarding a HUGE concrete mixer and two Pallets of Cement Powder.....It went from yellow to Olive Drab overnight.....we we wisely put on an Engineer Units ID Numbers.
Going to Saigon Kit for us when we did a three day R&R was a set of stencils, a can of spray paint, and a set of bolt cutters.....we hopped a ride down on the Battalion Courier Flight done daily by a Huey....and drove home in a Jeep.
It got so bad.....the Song Be Mess Hall Rifle Rack had an armed guard on it......due to helicopter crews being prone to forget they had not dropped theirs into the rack upon entering the Chow Hall.
There were good times to be had even in the worst of times.