Stupid Digging

During the Persian Gulf War, my Marine Corps unit had to dig foxholes every time we changed positions. Once, when a private was making his trench, he complained to our sergeant, “Why do we have to do this stupid digging?”

Then there was a loud explosion just a hundred feet away.

“What was THAT?” asked the private.

“That,” replied the sergeant, “is called ‘incentive’.”

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