Dan Shapiro
09-18-2009, 06:32
My brother just emailed me that General Petraeus had to apologize for a joke that he told in front of some Marines. Herewith the joke:
The Joke (as told by Petraeus at the Marine Corps Association Foundation’s annual dinner July 30 in Arlington, Va.):
The Marines’ sense of toughness permeates the Corps’ lore as well as its reality.
To recall an illustrative story, a soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back. “This is tough,” he thinks to himself.
Just ahead of him trudges an Army Ranger with an 80-pound pack on his back: “This is really tough,” he thinks.
And ahead of him is a Marine with a 90-pound pack on. And he thinks to himself, “I love how tough this is!”
Then, of course, 30,000 feet above them, an Air Force pilot flips aside his ponytail — I’m sorry, I don’t know how that got in there, they haven’t had ponytails in a year or two — and looks down at them through his cockpit as he flies over. “Boy,” he radios his wingman, “It must be tough down there.”
My reply to my brother (Ret. M/Sgt USAF)
Hahahaha! Snort! Gasp! Wheeze! Hey, sorry Mikey, but that was FUNNY!
Especially the pony tail! :evil6:
The Joke (as told by Petraeus at the Marine Corps Association Foundation’s annual dinner July 30 in Arlington, Va.):
The Marines’ sense of toughness permeates the Corps’ lore as well as its reality.
To recall an illustrative story, a soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back. “This is tough,” he thinks to himself.
Just ahead of him trudges an Army Ranger with an 80-pound pack on his back: “This is really tough,” he thinks.
And ahead of him is a Marine with a 90-pound pack on. And he thinks to himself, “I love how tough this is!”
Then, of course, 30,000 feet above them, an Air Force pilot flips aside his ponytail — I’m sorry, I don’t know how that got in there, they haven’t had ponytails in a year or two — and looks down at them through his cockpit as he flies over. “Boy,” he radios his wingman, “It must be tough down there.”
My reply to my brother (Ret. M/Sgt USAF)
Hahahaha! Snort! Gasp! Wheeze! Hey, sorry Mikey, but that was FUNNY!
Especially the pony tail! :evil6: