Inspired by Rusty, who made me actually laugh out loud this morning.
Q: How does a Marine say “helicopter”?
A: *points at the sky and grunts “ung-ung-ung”*
Q: Why did the Coast Guard change the height requirement to 6 feet tall?
A: So if your boat sinks, you can walk back to shore without getting your head wet.
Q: Whats the difference between a Ferrari and a Navy wife?
A: Not every Coastie has been in a Ferrari!
Q: How many Army guys does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: A whole regiment – the stand around debating the tactics on how to do it for days and days, launch three abortive missions, and eventually call the Marines to do it for them.
Q: What is difference between the Boy Scouts and the U.S. Air Force?
A: The Boy Scouts have adult supervision. The Air Force has pilots.
I have a whole RAFT of these jokes.
My favorite, from a friend who served in the Navy:
What does Marine stand for?
Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential!
“My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment”
Being a retired Navy Chief, my favorite has long been the one about which service is the best.
Sorry that, as usual, the Coast Guard didn’t make the cut.
Silly Ahab, everybody knows that you carry your jokes around in a rucksack, not a raft.
Not in the Coast Guard we don’t!
Strategy Page has a fine collection of both jokes and humorous photographs, you’ll see them make the rounds of the blogosphere occasionally.
I forwarded these to my ex-Marine father and he took the ribbing intra-service and comments “Actually, we never look at helicopters flying, because we don’t want to be a witness when it crashes.”
True story:
My father was at lunch trading jokes with friends at ComSat Labs and told a few poignant ones about the US Marine Corps… which were overheard by an retired Marine who worked there. This guy, a big guy who looked everything like you’d think a Marine would, later went to my father’s desk, looked down at him, and angrily demanded to know of my father:
“R–, were you ever in the Military?”
My father’s answer was immediate:
“No sir, I was in the Air Force.”
Hahahaha, yeah. So true about the Air Force.
The Air Force is so backwards that – unlike the others – the officers go to war and the enlisted sit around and watch.
I was in the Air Force, and while it’s a fine branch, it has it’s faults like every other branch and some.