One from the early days of the Army BFT.
The gym staff couldn't be bothered with measuring a mile and a half, so they just calculated how may laps of a standard running track were needed to complete the distance. The first part of the test was a squadded march over 1.5 miles. For the individual best effort sprint, they asked everyone to shout out the number of laps they'd completed to the PTI stood on the finishing line.
Yeah, right.