My brother who spent 12 years in the military had a long chat with me 1 week before my departure to do my national service ,he said to me you have to go into the military with a sense of humour and the right attitude,which i did.Needless to say i soon became very fit because of my wisecracks and big mouth,however i always managed to draw a smike on my RSM,s face whenever he saw me ,hence my nickname.While doing our border duty in Nambibia and Angola our section was volunteered to help out another unit on Coin OPs ,which actually was baby sitting a bunch of regular officers who where in Namibia for the first time and where trying to enhance their career,s which i have nothing against as long it,s not at my expense
Anyway after one week of patrols we dirty ,tired and all i wanted to do was sink an ice cold beer and sleep,but noooooooo
our over zealous captain decidedto have a drilling session ,left turn right turn about turn forward march.
Their RSM who was watching this whole affair said something to this captain who gave us the halt, upon that my friend muttered TO BE OR NOT TO BE, the captain screaming
WHO SAID THAT ,and i could,nt resist myself which i replied I BELIEVE IT WAS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SIR,
well after that comment i was dropped off 25kilometers from the camp 3000 rounds of ammo my LMG and my battle jacket and helmut and had to walk back to this camp with the captain driving behind me on his little jeep.Anyway when i9 got back to camp at about 10,00oclock that night there was a case of beers on the bed i was sleeping on for that week.With a note saying that i had made their day,To this day i swear it was that RSM cos i still see the tears running down his face after i said what i had said.
Moral of the story do not chirp an officer most do not have any sense of humour
and if you do think of the consequences