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OUR MARINE UNIT was being transferred to the Navy ship USS Princeton, off the coast of Vietnam. The squadron embarkation officer and I had just stepped off a helicopter onto the deck of the vessel to supervise the move.
Men in uniform were busy everywhere, helping to get us settled into our new quarters. In the middle of all this activity stood a large, unattended safe. Soon the young Marine who had been assigned to guard it appeared. "Don't you know you're not to let this safe out of your sight?" snapped the embarkation officer.
"Yes, sir," the Marine answered. "But I figured if anyone could rip the door off this safe or carry it away, I sure wasn't going to mess with him."
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by Christy W. Sauro, Jr.
Provided Courtesy of Reader's Digest.
Men in uniform were busy everywhere, helping to get us settled into our new quarters. In the middle of all this activity stood a large, unattended safe. Soon the young Marine who had been assigned to guard it appeared. "Don't you know you're not to let this safe out of your sight?" snapped the embarkation officer.
"Yes, sir," the Marine answered. "But I figured if anyone could rip the door off this safe or carry it away, I sure wasn't going to mess with him."
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by Christy W. Sauro, Jr.
Provided Courtesy of Reader's Digest.
