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9 * ARMED FORCES

39. Supply officer: "How does your new uniform fit?" Recruit: "The jacket isn't bad, but the trousers are just a little loose around the armpits."

40. Postmaster: ''I'm sorry, but I can't cash this money order unless you have some identification. Have you friends in camp?"

Soldier: "Not me: I'm the camp's bugler."

41. The sergeant was explaining some important points to a squad of recruits on the rifle range.

"This type of bullet will penetrate two feet of solid wood," he said. "So remember to keep your heads down."

42. "Look here, private, this man beside you on this fatigue detail is doing twice the work you are."

"I know, sarge. That's what I've been telling him for the last hour, but he won't slow down."

43. The major who received a complaint about the issue of bread snapped angrily, "If Napoleon had had that bread in Russia, he would have eaten it with the greatest relish."

"Yes, sir," spoke up the sergeant, "but it was fresh then."

44. The draftee was awakened roughly by his platoon sergeant after the rookie's first night in the army barracks.

"It's four-thirty!" roared the sergeant.

"Four-thirty!" gasped the recruit. "Man, you'd better get to bed. We've got a big day tomorrow!"

45. An officer in the South Pacific who had been overseas sixteen months received a letter from his wife telling about a prayer their four-year-old daughter made: "Dear Lord, please send me a baby brother so we will have something to surprise Daddy with when he gets home."

46. An applicant for employment gave as his reason for