In defense of our own Country

In defense of our own Country

A fellow Marine spent a week out in the Mojave Desert in California training.

When he came back the local rats had ravaged his Quonset hut in the meantime.

So he called the local GSA (General Service Administration) types at the base to correct his problem.

So they put in sticky type rat traps to catch the bandits, but when this American Marine came back all the rats were gone. It appeared they had just escaped from the sticky stuff. And they had ravaged the place, again.

So he just went to the local grocery store and got old fashioned rat traps, and after the next period of time of his training in the desert, found the rats both trapped and dead.

That’s when he got in trouble.

The GSA types put him on report and he had to go see the Chief of Staff at the base, like the number two guy at the place.

And when being tried, so speak, he offered the following defense.

I have been out in the desert for a week training to kill humans, and now my rear end is a sling for killing rats.

Well, the Chief of Staff threw him out as “not guilty”, though he never got promoted again either.