[fred cook]

During WWII, my father was an Army Captain running supply convoys up and down the Burma / Ledo road. On one trip a bunch of Japanese bombers flew over the convoy so all the drivers stopped and jumped into the ditch for cover. It just happened that one of the truck drivers had grabbed his carbine and wound up next to my dad, the Captain. My dad looked over at the driver and said "give me your carbine". The driver firmly clutched his rifle and said "no suh, Captain suh, you get your own gun"! The reply tickled my dad and he got a good laugh. It turned out that the Jap bombers must have already made their bombing run because they did not bother the convoy!