[Chad Fairbanks]

I vow to hone my coffee cup handling skills to the point that I can stand up in a kayak being tossed around in a typhoon, and still not spill a drop.

After getting out of the navy, I had several minor job skills - Janitor, Security Guard, Air Traffic Controller/Radarman, and a few others... but the skill described above, by God, makes me MANAGEMENT material... ;0)

[DeuceTraveler]

I can tell these things are never made up by Air Force guys.

[Bogey78O]

Hehe...I never called anyone by their first name... maybe it's because I never got to the commissioning. Maybe that's the breakaway point.

Funny either way.

[Polybius]

I understand that I will be mistaken for the Good Humor man during the summer, and for the Waffen SS during the winter.

Yeah. We did look tougher in winter.....

In my entire Navy career, nobody ever explained why "Navy Blue" was actually Black.

[annyokie]

Thanks! I have sent this to all my family service memebers!

[TheSpottedOwl]

ROTF @ Waffen SS!! My son is in Navy JROTC, and the first time I saw him in his winter "blues" I thought there was a mistake. Yikes he looks like he's in the SS!!

[mattstat]

When I read the Army Oath, I thought this was humor, but then I read the Air Force Oath and realized that it was almost word-for-word identical to the vow I took when I was in.

The only mistake was the reference to the Basic Training ribbon. You didn't automatically get these. You could, hoewever, go down to the BX and buy any ribbon you wanted and wear it at any time.

I even had one for serving in the Crimean War. It was quite beautiful, though I hear it's not as cool as the one they handed out to everybody who survived the Clinton administration.