CROTCH HUMOR

We were constantly being trained for something. I liked the range best because I got to blow things up. You have to be careful and use your brain. If you don't, you wind up like me with burning fingers. I got smoke in my eyes and I reached for my weapon and got the hot barrel instead.

Never call your weapon your gun in the army. They have this nasty joke where the drill sergeant points first to his M16 and then to his crotch. He says, "This is your weapon and this is your gun. You kill with your weapon. Your gun is for fun." I guess you have to be a guy to see the humor in that. Not being one, it wasn't all that funny to me.