Slang from WWI (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Trench coats were _devised ... to keep *officers* warm and dry_.

Only present and former enlisted personnel, that is to say, enlisted
*human resources*, can truly appreciate this one. I was unable to
finish Catch-22 when I first tried to read it, because the concept of
officers having non-trivial problems was so foreign to me, as a former
EM. And I ain't seen no parts of no combat.

-Wilson



On Nov 29, 2007 1:58 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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