Category: Army Stories

TACTFUL MAN

The C.O. called in his platoon sergeant and showed him a fax, advising that Jones’s parents had been killed in an accident involving a steamroller. He entrusted him to break the news to the bereaved soldier, “as gently as possible.” The sergeant thought for a while about the best way to carry out his delicate mission and then ordered the platoon into formation and commanded:

“Attention! Soldiers whose parents were squashed by a steamroller, take one step forward!”

Of course, none of the soldiers budged and the sergeant thundered again:

“Private First Class Jones, don’t you understand a direct command when you hear one?”

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