[OT] Squid Careers ;-)

[Sorry, but I couldn't resist]

A salty Navy Chief and a crusty Marine First Sergeant are at a bar arguing
about who had the tougher career.

"I did 30 years in the Recon," the Marine declared proudly, "and fought in
three of my country's wars. Fresh out of boot camp, I hit the
   beach at Okinawa, clawed my way up the blood-soaked sand, and
eventually took out an entire enemy machine gun nest with a single grenade. As
a
   sergeant

I fought in Korea alongside General MacArthur. We pushed back the enemy inch
by bloody inch all the way up to the Chinese border, always under a barrage of
artillery and small arms fire.

Finally, as a staff sergeant, I did three consecutive combat tours in Vietnam.
We humped through the mud and razor grass for 14 hours a day, plagued by rain
and mosquitoes, ducking under sniper fire all day and mortar fire at night. In
a fire fight, we'd shoot until our arms ached and our guns were empty, then
we'd charge the enemy with bayonets!"

Looking straight ahead, the Chief says nothing. Then after a deliberately
long, slow drink, the Chief says, "Yeah, it figures..... all shore