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Shootin’ the Breeze To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. Murphy’s Law of Combat: Never forget that your weapon was manufactured by the lowest bidder. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other [guy] die for his. A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining? Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Army food: the spoils of war. If at first you don’t succeed, call in an airstrike. Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
Riddle Me This At the beginning of World War I, the uniform of the British soldiers included a brown cloth cap. As the war went on, the British officials became more and more concerned about the growing number of soldiers suffering from head injuries. They decided to replace the
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ries grew even more, although the intensity of the battles was the same before and after the change. Why did the number of head injuries per battalion increase even though all the soldiers were wearing metal helmets instead of cloth caps?
Answer: The number of head injuries increased because the number of deaths decreased. Before metal helmets, if a soldier was shot in the head by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel, it would penetrate his cloth cap and kill him. This would have been registered as a death, not a wound. After metal helmets were introduced, the bullets caused injuries rather than deaths. Therefore, the number of head injuries increased while the number of deaths decreased.
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cloth cap with a metal helmet. However, to their surprise, the number of soldiers with head inju-
