This document contains a collection of witty sayings and advice related to military service and combat. Some of the key points summarized are: - Soldiers should try to appear unimportant to avoid becoming a target for the enemy. Teamwork is also important as it draws enemy fire away from oneself. - Weapons and equipment are often unreliable, as they are made by the lowest bidders and inspected units are not always combat-ready. - The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the operator's intelligence. Unexpected or dangerous situations often arise, even from inexperienced people. - Many aspects of military service involve unpredictability, from incoming fire to inspections to the reliability of equipment.

1. MILITARYTRUTHS

2. Try to look unimportant
the
enemy may be low on ammo
and
not want to waste a bullet
on you

3. Never
share a foxhole with
anyone braver
than yourself

4. Never forget that your
weapon was made by the
lowest bidder; staffed by
engineers who could not
qualify for any other job

5. a Five
second fuses
always
burn in
threeseconds

6. The
easy way is
always
mined

7. Teamwork
is essential;
it gives
the enemy
other people to shoot at

8. If you are
short of everything
but the enemy,
you are
in the
combat zone

9. Incoming fire
has
the
right of way

10. No
combat ready
unit has ever
passed inspection

11. No
inspection ready
unit
has ever passed combat

12. If the
enemy
is
within range,
so are you

13. The only thing
more accurate than
incoming enemy fire is
incoming friendly fire

14. Tracerswork
both ways

15. Professional soldiers
are predictable;
the world is
full of dangerous
amateurs

16. Military Intelligence
is a
contradiction

17. Mines
are
equal opportunity
weapons

18. When in doubt,
empty
your magazine

19. The side
with the
simplest uniforms wins

20. Combat
will occur on
the ground between
two adjoining maps

21. The side
with the
simplest uniforms wins

22. The most dangerousthing
in the world
is a
Second Lieutenant
with a map and
a compass

23. The more
a weapon costs,
the fartherit goes for
repairs

24. The complexityof a
weapon is inversely
proportional to the IQ of the
weapon's operator

25. If enough
datais collected,
a board
of inquiry
can prove anything

26. The weapon
usually jams
when you need
it the most

27. The bursting radius
of a
hand grenade
is always one foot greater
than your jumping range

28. There is no such
place as a
convenient
foxhole

29. Success occurs when
no one is looking,
failure occurs when the
General is watching

30. Things that must
be together to
work can never be
shipped together

31. The quartermaster has
only two sizes,
too large and too small

32. If you have a
personality conflict
with your superior:
he has the personality,
you have the conflict

33. If you
enter CO's office
with an idea, you will leave
his office with his idea

34. Two rules of the army.
One:The boss is always
Right
Two: when in doubt apply
rule one

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