In the Army Now - The joy of the Armed ForcesI've never been a soldier. I was an air cadet once, but that mostly involved sitting in a mouldy hut learning about aeroplane engines with the hint that one day we might go flying.
Yet, anyone who has spent time defending their nation, or at least drinking bromide-laced-tea for their nation, must have stories to tell. Tell them now.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Mar 2006, 18:26)
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A teacher of minehad broken his neck when he was sixteen diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool. He healed completely, with no paralysis.
However, a few years later he gets a draft notice to go to 'Nam. Confident that they wouldn't take him because of his injury, he reported to MEPS with nothing but his X-rays.
After the full battery of blood, urine, vision and who knows what other tests, they asked him if there was anything that should keep him out of the military. He showed them his X-rays, and which point they took more.
"Well," they said, "you seem to have healed fully. Welcome to the Army, son."
On a bus he goes to basic training without even a toothbrush.
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setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 24 Mar 2006, 16:17,
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