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The Difference Between the Infantry, the Artillery and the Armored





HAPPINESS IS . . .
Infantry: A good rifle
Armored: A big tank
Artillery: A loud boom

UPON HEARING FIREWORKS
Infantry: Cool, just like a live fire exercise
Armored: Not loud enough
Artillery: Fireworks? What fireworks?

OTHER TRADES
Infantry: Waste of rations
Armored: Waste of rations
Artillery: Waste of rations

IDEA OF FUN
Infantry: Not having to "pepper-pot" an entire grid square before the objective
Armored: Racing across a grid square on "full stab"
Artillery: Leveling a grid square


FAVORITE SONG
Infantry: "Ballad of the Green Beret"
Armored: "Purple Haze"
Artillery: Anything, just play it LOUD!

BIGGEST LUXURY IN THE FIELD
Infantry: Engineers blowing trenches for them with C4
Armored: Grunts to dig their trenches for them
Artillery: Cable

A LONG ROUTE MARCH WITH FULL KIT
Infantry: 20 clicks
Armored: From the hangars to the tank
Artillery: What's a route march?

OFFICERS
Infantry: Are morons and should stay away from the trenchlines
Armored: Are morons and should stay out of the vehicles
Artillery: Are morons and should stay away from the gun lines

FAVORITE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
Infantry: Anything but walking
Armored: Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. TankstankstankstanksTANKS!
Artillery: Don't you have to move around to require transport?

BIGGEST GRIPE IN THE FIELD
Infantry: The weather
Armored: Coffee maker in tank not working
Artillery: Only having basic cable

BREAKFAST IN THE FIELD
Infantry: I don't care what it is, just so long as I can sit down to eat it
Armored: Hot coffee and rum with a beer chaser
Artillery: Eggs over easy, crispy bacon, sausages, toast and Tim Horton's coffee

WHAT THEY CALL THEMSELVES
Infantry: Death Techs
Armored: Cavalry
Artillery: 10 Mile Snipers

WHAT OTHERS CALL THEM
Infantry: Grunts
Armored: Zipperheads
Artillery: Drop shorts

Stay tuned, part 3 of Military humor is for Monday's thread!

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''Artillery: Eggs over easy, crispy bacon, sausages, toast and Tim Horton's coffee ''

:( my coffee was only known in my unit.

[PhilDragoo]

Sgt. Bilko Tv Show

This tv show was a comedy series about a con man Army Sergeant who used his position as leader of a motor pool to earn money via various underhanded schemes. He regularly ran illegal poker games, would sell Army tires and other supplies to local mechanics, etc. Sgt. Bilko's commander, Colonel Hall is constantly trying to catch Bilko and comes close but is never successful.

This site has the complete casting and episode list for the 1955-9 seasons.

I watched Bilko on the Philco.

Thirty years ago up in the mountains in Carson Forest a friend's two hundred acres was the scene of several cabins with stories.

Rudy was an Army lifer with more stories than Bilko.

He and an Army buddy had contrived to get inside the base warehouse where overnight they loaded the liquor for the officers club onto a deuce and a quarter, then drove it out in the morning, with all the booze.

He had lots of those stories, but ran out of liver and died before they could all be told.

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Tehran is terrified by Bush's pronunciamento.

Cheney says we're pursuing the diplomatic angle, but he can't guarantee those wascally Iswaelis won't act yoo-nih-laterally.

Khatami is in full-throated Ceausescu mode, being the very model of a dead man talking.