WHO'S ;#IO IN THE ARMY:
(Contributed# Don’t blame us* We run it, butwe didn’t write it)
" A PRIVATE is the guy that exercises a shovel*
A PRIVATE, FIRST CLASS is a bird who bootlicks the top-kick for
; three dollars extra per month.
A CORPORAL is a lad who is understudying a non-commissioned officer*
A SERGEANT is a guy who he.s been in the Service long enough to get
hard boiled*
A, FIRST SERGEANT is the bird who keeps the duty roster#
A SECOND LIEUTENANT is the officer you’d better salute*
• .A FIRST LIEUTENANT is the officer who drills the company.
A CAPTAIN is the officer who hands out company punishment*
;A MAJOR is an officer who weers boots and spurs*
A LIEUTENANT COLONEL is an officer who keeps the Major company*
A COLONEL is an officer whose wife runs the regiment*
RECOMMENDED TO DISCHARGED SOLDIERS:
The ”llth Cavalry History” relates a Rood story,
” A discharged soldier was looking for a job. He applied for a
place with the local neat merchant, The bateLei said.
. " Well I’ll give you a job,at ten dollars a week. But do you
know anything about the butcher business? Can you dress a chicken.
" Not on ten dollars a week,” the ex-ouck replied positively.
Which reminds us of the ex-doughboy that applied at the Employment Office
for a position. . 1IT. . , ,,
"I have just one job left,” the manage.* to?.d him. It s at the
Eagle Laundry. Do you wan: it?” tl
"Well, I want a job bad enough," was the answer,- but i ve
never washed an eagle yet”.
But the best yarn of ’em a.L cones from the 3 0th Cavalry, One of the dusky
trooners of that outfit ms orderly to a certain Captain. Said captain
told San an English lord was coning to visit him at the Post, ”Be sure
you wait on him nicely, * the Captain sail*"He* s nobility* V/hen he rings
for anything from his room,you must say,'My j-»ord.what is it you wish?
The ^English lord came. He rang ^or the orderly.Sam snapped into
his best military naniiavR knocked, and entered the lord s room,
"My Gawd, what does yo' want?” he tail anxiously.