Military Privacy

"Military Privacy"

As a young married couple, a husband and wife
lived in a cheap housing complex near the military
base where he was working. Their chief complaint
was that the walls were paper thin and they had no
privacy.

That was painfully obvious one morning when the
husband was upstairs and the wife was downstairs
on the telephone. She was interrupted by the doorbell
and went to greet her neighbor.

"Give this to your husband," he said, thrusting a roll
of toilet paper into her hands. "He's been yelling for
it for 15 minutes!"

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"Rank and File"

A young ensign is working late at the Pentagon
one evening. As he clocks out of his office at
about 8 P.M. he sees the Admiral standing by
the classified document shredder in the hallway,
a piece of paper in his hand.

'Do you know how to work this thing?' the Admiral
asks. 'My secretary's gone home and I don't know
how to run it.'

'Yes, sir,' says the young ensign, who turns on
the machine, takes the paper from the Admiral,
and feeds it in.

'Thanks,' says the Admiral, 'I just need one copy...'
Received on Sat May 31 07:13:17 2008