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Be All That You Can Be

Be All That You Can Be

by Adam on July 17, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: comics
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  1. Ataro
    Ataro
    July 17, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Now hopefully, you’ll still be alive before we finish them.”

    I expect to see that in the fine print.

    • TB Tabby
      TB Tabby
      July 17, 2012, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      It actually says “Jetpacks have been around since the 1960s, but we don’t use them because they’re not nearly as cool in real life. They’re slow, noisy gas-guzzlers: the SUVs of aviation. You’re much better off with an airplane or helicopter.”

  2. Paul
    Paul
    July 17, 2012, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Coast Guard “We’re a branch of the military. Really.” Alternately: “They’ll never make a movie about you.”

    • Adam
      Adam
      July 17, 2012, 7:39 am | # | Reply

      Ha-ha! I like the first one.

    • thorgold
      thorgold
      July 17, 2012, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      Plus, Coast Guard did get a movie. “The Guardian” was about CG rescue swimmers 😛

  3. qwerty
    qwerty
    July 17, 2012, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    “Coast Guard: yep, still a branch of the military”

    • Shannon Love
      Shannon Love
      April 11, 2013, 11:05 pm | # | Reply

      The Coast Guard started as the “Revenue Cutter Service” cutter being the time of ship. They were under the Treasury Department because their major task was to catch smugglers evading port tariffs, the main source of federal revenue.

      The Coast Guard is usually a civilian agency but it can be militarized by executive order. The Coast Guard specializes in close shore littoral combat so when the Coast Guard gets militarized, somebodies getting a hurting.

      • Chris Rivan
        Chris Rivan
        February 22, 2018, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        Wrong. The Coast Guard is not and has never been a civilian service. By act of Congress they are a military organization and subject to the UCMJ.

        Don’t talk about what you don’t understand.

  4. blars
    blars
    July 17, 2012, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    any military force: when your old people will be forced to respect you

  5. ninelen
    ninelen
    July 17, 2012, 4:20 am | # | Reply

    Coast Guard: “Everyone will be jealous of your tan.”

    On a nitpicky note: some of the text blocks have punctuation marks inside them, but the only one with a punctuation mark at the end was panel 5. It looked a little odd.

    • Adam
      Adam
      July 17, 2012, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, you’re right. I’ll fix ’em.

  6. DSz
    DSz
    July 17, 2012, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    Bikini bug in frame 4!

    Does that mean the others are naked? I’m so confused!

    • DSz
      DSz
      July 17, 2012, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      And I can’t count!!

      • Frances
        Frances
        July 17, 2012, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        You must be a programmer, you start counting at zero 😀

  7. Boomer
    Boomer
    July 17, 2012, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Army = “Mad Men?

  8. LanceThruster
    LanceThruster
    July 17, 2012, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    The patch for Marines 1/5 is pretty funny itself —

    “Make peace or die”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion_5th_Marines

  9. thorgold
    thorgold
    July 17, 2012, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    Air Force alternative:
    “We die less!”

  10. Dave Dell
    Dave Dell
    July 17, 2012, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    thorgold – Air Force: “The branch of service you should have joined.”

  11. LanceThruster
    LanceThruster
    July 17, 2012, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

    It is my understanding that during the Vietnam years, for Navy personnel (other than the pilots and backseat crew) it was considered the “lawn chair war” as, with few exceptions, downtime could be spent on deck with a folding chair wondering what it was like wading around waist deep in a rice paddy.

    Compare that to the WWII slugfests between capital ships and the like (see the story of Taffy 3 for one that will curl your socks – http://ushistory4you.hubpages.com/hub/Taffy-3David-versus-Goliath ).

    Ocean (and air) superiority rulez!

  12. soapyillusions
    soapyillusions
    July 18, 2012, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

    first one in a wile that made me spam my friends.

  13. TB Tabby
    TB Tabby
    July 18, 2012, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

    One of my Bathroom Readers has a page listing the official and unofficial slogans for the branches of the military. Off the top of my head, I can only remember two. One for the Coast Guard (Support Search and Rescue: Get Lost), and one for the Army (a backwards acronym: “Yes, My Retarded Ass Signed Up.”)

    • FLUMO
      FLUMO
      July 19, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure those were in an issue of MAD back in the day.

  14. Anonymoose
    Anonymoose
    October 23, 2012, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    The National Guard:

    “No, we don’t know what we do either.”

  15. Justtoreply
    Justtoreply
    May 13, 2015, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    What about the Coast Guard?

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