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Next Time, Try Holding The Grenade And Throwing The Pin. You Can’t Do Much Worse

Next Time, Try Holding The Grenade And Throwing The Pin. You Can’t Do Much Worse

I suppose the drill instructor is not in the panic business, so maybe his lack of panic shouldn’t seem so notable. But it does. To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling: If you can keep your head when all about you are trying to blow it off with a misthrown grenade, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and – which is more – you’ll be a man, my son!

(Thanks to that Borderline cross between Matisse and Audie Murphy, Casey Klahn, for sending that one along)