OUR RESERVE CHAPLAINS UNIT was training with a Navy landing-craft unit at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center pier at the same time a Navy divers unit was embarking for a mission in Lake Michigan. Just before the divers’ boat left, six of us chaplains walked up the plank and boarded. A startled diver looked up and asked a buddy, “What kind of a mission did they say they’re sending us on today?”
–Contributed to “Humor In Uniform” by Lt. William W. Gasser, USNR