Posted on Aug 17, 2015
How has a sense of humor helped you in your military career?
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SMSgt Tony Barnes I'm a 32 years old Private and my English is worst than Tony Montana's in Scarface, I'm a joke in uniform, lol!
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My sense of humor has kept me from getting into more trouble than what I already have gotten into.
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It made my deployments bearable and helped maintain my sanity, which I suppose indirectly helped my career in the long run. Seriously, words fail to express the shear volume of homoerotic humor soldiers experience down range, or at least that was my experience.
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My feelings weren't hurt when an Afghan offered to buy me from the unit I was supporting for 200 Afs and a goat.
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SMSgt Tony Barnes and SFC James Sczymanski Ha! Thank you gentlemen! I told them if they got me a horse, I'd gladly live with them. But they didn't have any, so no transparent daywalkers for them. =(
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The recovery of my sense of humor AFTER leaving the Canoe Club saved my life.
Submariners are forced to live under the unbreakable "Law of Conservation of Happiness"
Once the hatches close on a submarine, happiness can neither be created nor destroyed, only stolen from one soul by another, leaving the original soul thirsting for happiness... forced to suck happiness from someone else. Barbaric.
Underway, all submariners become Fun-Sucking-Vampires. Some, like the SCPOs and MCPOs, are so skilled after centuries of Fun-Sucking that they become positively giddy with the stolen happiness of 2nd Class Petty Officers. E-4's and below become hollow shells of their former selves. Like wretched, decaying, rotting zombies, with no brains to eat but their own.
Truly, I say to you non-believers... "Night of the Living Dead" is NOT a horror movie... it's a documentary of submariner life after 86 days at sea...
Submariners are forced to live under the unbreakable "Law of Conservation of Happiness"
Once the hatches close on a submarine, happiness can neither be created nor destroyed, only stolen from one soul by another, leaving the original soul thirsting for happiness... forced to suck happiness from someone else. Barbaric.
Underway, all submariners become Fun-Sucking-Vampires. Some, like the SCPOs and MCPOs, are so skilled after centuries of Fun-Sucking that they become positively giddy with the stolen happiness of 2nd Class Petty Officers. E-4's and below become hollow shells of their former selves. Like wretched, decaying, rotting zombies, with no brains to eat but their own.
Truly, I say to you non-believers... "Night of the Living Dead" is NOT a horror movie... it's a documentary of submariner life after 86 days at sea...
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Prior to joining the Army, I worked in hospice and in an Emergency Room. While on Active Duty, I had to have four back surgeries, and told I was too broken down and was medically retired. Without a sense of humor and my faith, I would be another statistic in a suicide briefing!
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Kept me from absolutely losing my mind. The things you will encounter during a long career require the ability to sit back and just say "wow".
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I'm with CW4 Guy Butler !
I know when it's time to knuckle down and get the job down and to work my ass off.
And I know when it's appropriate to bounce off the walls like Daffy Duck and carry on like a stand up comedian.
There is a balance.
I know when it's time to knuckle down and get the job down and to work my ass off.
And I know when it's appropriate to bounce off the walls like Daffy Duck and carry on like a stand up comedian.
There is a balance.
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