Humor in Uniform 10/16/2010

[R J]

10/16/2010
Soon after our son's ship returned to base after a six-month deployment, friends and family of the crew were given permission to tour the vessel.  Lunch was served in the mess, and since I had never eaten Navy food, I decided to try a little taste of everything.  As I approached some soggy-looking spinach, I pointed out to a sailor standing behind the counter, "There's no serving spoon in the spinach.  "Ma'am," he responded quite apologetically, "no one's ever asked for the spinach before."
Patricia K. Doyle