Humor in Uniform 12/1/2010

[R J]

12/1/2010
As an Army media analyst for a military press information center in Sarajevo, one of our more monotonous tasks was editing the transcripts of our daily briefings and press conferences.  During one conference, however, it was driven home to me how important this job was. After a British general had referred to snipers in the area as the “lunatic fringe” during a press conference, one of our young officers was reading the transcript when he piped up, “Sir, the transcribers apparently know who the snipers are!”   “who” I asked with great interest.  “The lunatic French!”
Chester A. Krokoski, Jr.