Post from marvhagedorn at CHUMLY

Received from a fellow Chief Warrant in an email today:
Two old retired Vets were sitting at the VFW arguing about who'd had the tougher career.
"I did 30 years in the Corps," Sam, the former Marine declared proudly, "and fought in three of
my country's wars. Fresh out of boot camp, I hit the beach at Okinawa, clawed my way up the
blood-soaked sand, and eventually took out an entire enemy machine gun nest with a single grenade.
As a sergeant, I fought in Korea alongside General MacArthur. We pushed back the enemy inch by
bloody inch, all the way up to the Chinese border, always under a barrage of artillery and small arms fire.
Finally, as a Gunny Sergeant, I did three consecutive combat tours in Vietnam. We humped through the
mud and razor grass for 14hours a day, plagued by rain and mosquitoes, ducking under sniper fire all day,
and mortar fire all night. In a firefight, we'd fire until our arms ached and our guns were empty,
then we'd charge the enemy with bayonets!"
"Ah," said Elmer, a retired Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy, with a dismissive wave of his hand,
"Lucky bastard ! All shore duty, eh?"
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