ETERNAL RIVALRY
Added on: 4th Feb 2015
ARMY V NAVY
An old Sailor and an old Fleet Air Arm
where sitting in the Duke of Buckingham
arguing about who'd had the tougher career.
'I did 30 years in the Corps', the Fleet
declared proudly, 'and fought in three of
my country's wars. Fresh out of boot camp
I hit the beach at Okinawa, clawed my way up the
blood-soaked sand, and eventually took out an
entire enemy machine gun nest with
a single grenade. 'As a sergeant,
I fought in Korea alongside General MacArthur.
We pushed back the enemy inch by bloody inch
all the way up to the Chinese border,
always under a barrage of artillery and
small arms fire. 'Finally, as a gunny sergeant,
I did three consecutive combat tours in Vietnam.
We humped through the mud and
razor grass for 14 hours a day,
plagued by rain and mosquitoes,
ducking under sniper fire all day and
mortar fire all night.
In a fire-fight, we'd fire until our arms
ached and our guns were empty,
then we'd charge the enemy with bayonets!'
'Ah', said the Sailor with a
dismissive wave of his hand,
'lucky Tommy, all shore duty, huh?'
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