Reminds me of another one, also during night ops at the St Cyr Academy in
the seventies.
Voice on the network
"I am bored !"
"Will the unit who reported he was bored please identify itself ?"
"I said I was bored, not stupid."
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, sweltering under the last of the winter sun
on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, William R. Benson wrote:
> "1...2...3...
> How do you hear me?"
>
> "Fe, fi, fo, fum...
> Loud and clear with a little hum..."
>
> (Overheard on the Battalion push during a nasty force on force leap EX in MCB
> Camp Lejeune, NC. I was on radio watch in my M151A2 (required mil-veh ref.), it
> was zero-dark thirty, and all of the jokers came out to play on the net while
> the "Old Man" was asleep.
>
> Next voice heard was a low growl: "You jackasses better knock it off, or I
> secure everybody's liberty when this thing is over... Dragon Six Actual, out..."
>
> (Dragon Six was the BN CO... "Actual" meant it wasn't just his radioman
> talking...)
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Which is worse: ignorance or apathy ?
Who knows ? Who cares ?
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