Foxhole Jokes

1. If the enemy is in range, so are you. 2. Incoming fire has the right of way. 3. Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire. ( For this reason aircraft carriers have been called “Bomb Magnets.”) 4. There is always a way. 5. The easy way is always mined. 6. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. (Trivia devotees will recall the sudden disappearance of rank and distinctive caps on the uniforms worn by Soviet officers in…

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A wounded Marine limps into the bar and tells the bartender, “Give me a gin & tonic, a scotch & soda, a rum & coke and a Heineken.” The bartender looks a bit puzzled but, nonetheless, serves him his order. The Marine downs all four drinks, pays his tab and leaves. This goes on for a full week when the Marine enters again and orders up the usual. The bartender finally speaks up and says, “My God, man, I’ve seen…

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Two privates stationed at Fort Ord were handed shovels and told to bury a large dead animal. While digging they got into an argument about what they were burying. “This here’s a big mule!” “This ain’t no mule, this here’s a donkey.” “Mule!” “Donkey!” Well, this went on for a while until the camp chaplain came by. “What are you boys doing?” “We’re diggin’ a grave for this mule.” “Donkey, dammit!” The chaplain cut in, “Boys, this isn’t either one,…

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During the Persian Gulf War, my Marine Corps unit had to dig foxholes every time we changed positions. Once, when a private was making his trench, he complained to our sergeant, “Why do we have to do this stupid digging?” Then there was a loud explosion just a hundred feet away. “What was THAT?” asked the private. “That,” replied the sergeant, “is called ‘incentive’.”

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