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Show harle . "Red" Beam Jul 11 2001 That' h w good she was. One day one my chief came in with c ffee all o r hi khaki . I said, "What happened to you, chief." He said, "That o and o yeoman of yours threw a cup of coffee on me." I said, "What did you do to her." He said, "Well Iju t pinched her on the butt." I said, "Yeah, she don't take that." Uh huh. But I had another wave, and I couldn't keep her off her back. Oh, terrible. I told her she had to wear dungarees. She wouldn't wear dungarees. She'd wear a skirt and it would be up around her butt all the time. I did the normal navy thing. I couldn't straighten her out, so I transferred her. Let somebody else worry about her. But three years later I called Admiral Stump and said, "Okay, fishing time." He said, "I haven't got a good one for you. Stay there a month or so until I get something." And about that time a navy captain and four commanders came into my office. They said, "Chief, we're going to make you a lieutenant commander, and you're going to start training Seals. I said, "For Southeast Asia?" And they said, "Yeah." I said, "You've got the wrong man. I ain't going to do it. We don't have to fight down there." They said, "Oh, yes, we're going to have a war down there." I said, "All you've got to do is drop one bomb on Hai-phong and it's over. They said, "We can't do that." I said, "Why, not?" "Well, Russia will bomb us." I said, "Haven't you guys figured this out? What will we lose if Russia bombs us?" They said, "Oh, a hundred and fifty million people." I said, "What will we be doing?" "Well, we'll be bombing Russia." "How many will they lose?" "Oh, four hundred million." I said, "Do you think they are that stupid? There isn't going to be any atomic war between us two. The losses are just too great. And we'll get close, 87 |
