While we're on the subject of money for servicemen

[Oakman]

The Navy found they had too many officers and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer who volunteered for retirement a bonus of $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any two points in his body. The officer got to choose what those two points would be. The first officer who accepted, asked that he be measured from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. He was measured at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000. The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked to be measured from the tip of his outstretched hands to his toes. He walked out with $96,000. The third one was a non-commissioner officer a grizzly old Chief who, when asked where he would like to be measured replied, "from the tip of my penis to my testicles.." It was suggested by the pension man that he might want to reconsider, explaining about the nice big checks the previous two officers had received. But the old Chief insisted and they decided to go along with him, providing the measurement was taken by a medical officer. The medical officer arrived and instructed the Chief to "drop 'em,"which he did. The medical officer placed the tape measure on the tip of the Chief's penis and began to work back. My God!" he suddenly exclaimed, "Where are your testicles?" The old Chief calmly replied: "Vietnam"

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[fred_]

love it

[Stan Shannon]

:laugh: Must have been one very old CPO.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[Oakman]

Stan Shannon wrote:

Must have been one very old CPO.

He was Senior Chief of BuPers. His records showed that he served in Vietnam six years before he was born. ;)

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