Overheard by one of the candidates during a presidential election debate:
"...we've... got less horses & bayonets nowdays..." and:
"... submarines.... you know, those ships that go under the sea..."
There are many differences between the US Navy and ours (eg, the US Navy does not have a swimming test - if you can't do two laps of an olympic pool while fully clothed, it is no impediment to enlistment) however, if the informal rules on misuse of teminology are anything like the same, there are a whole lot of sailors right now seething that when they used the wrong word, they had to buy a 24-pack of beer for every man on the boat, while the clueless commander-in-chief gets off scot free!
And... is any reader with a source inside the US armed forces able to confirm the commander-in-chief's statement that bayonets are no longer issued at the ratio of one per grunt?
5 comments:
SiL got one in Marine Corpse Boot last year,,,,,But Unicorns are only horses with bayonets,
Bayonets still issued, and not "decorative" as one moron bloviated.
What mojo said.
PS: "We'll see how decorative you think it is while I'm ramming it into your guts, making my "war face" and screaming "HYAAAH!", you civ puke."...
Bad grammar always reveals a phoney who conned his way through the academy. "LESS horses . . ." indeed.
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