{"id":528,"date":"2007-01-26T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=528"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:45","slug":"you-gotta-love-those-gunnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Love Those Gunnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"gunnery-sarge.jpg\" id=\"image527\" alt=\"gunnery-sarge.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/gunnery-sarge.jpg\" \/>A young Marine officer was in a  serious car accident, but the only visible permanent injury was to both of his  ears, which were amputated. Since he wasn&#8217;t physically impaired he remained in the Marines and  eventually rose to the rank of General. He was, however very sensitive about his  appearance. One day the General was interviewing three Marines for his personal  aide. The first was an aviator, and it was a great interview. At the end of the  interview the General asked him, &#8220;Do you notice anything different about  me?&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The young officer answered,&#8221; why yes, sir. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that you have no ears.&#8221; The  general got very angry at the lack of tact and threw him out.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The second  interview was with a female Lieutenant, and she was even better. The General  asked her the same question, &#8220;Do you notice anything different about  me?&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">She replied, &#8220;Well, sir, you have no ears.&#8221; The General threw her  out also. The third interview was with a Marine Gunny. He was articulate, looked  extremely sharp and seemed to know more than the two officers combined  (surprise).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The General wanted this guy, and went ahead with the same  question, &#8220;Do you notice anything different about me?&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">To his surprise  the Gunny said, &#8220;Yes sir; you wear contact lenses.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The General was very  impressed and thought, what an incredibly observant Gunny, and he  didn&#8217;t mention my ears. &#8220;And how do  you know that I wear contacts?&#8221; The General asked.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The sharp-witted Gunny  replied, &#8220;Well, sir, it&#8217;s pretty hard  to wear glasses with no freaking ears.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tip o&#8217; the lid to LTC Hal. Keep &#8217;em comin&#8217; soldier.<\/p>\n<p><!--9d95f589607706e6b317d9f24d5259af--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Marine officer was in a serious car accident, but the only visible permanent injury was to both of his ears, which were amputated. Since he wasn&#8217;t physically impaired he remained in the Marines and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes","category-humor","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}