WAITING TO HAVE a physical at the base hospital in Cherry Point, N.C., I overheard a Marine Corps warrant officer try unsuccessfully to get the medical personnel to issue him new eyeglasses without an appointment.  Just then, a two-star general came into the room, and the warrant officer snapped sharply to attention, greeting him, “Good morning, Colonel.”  “Mister,” the general replied, “If you can’t tell a two-star general from a colonel, you better get some glasses.”  The warrant officer didn’t have to wait for an appointment.
–Contributed to “Humor In Uniform” by Willis Vaughn