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Show Careful, Colonel! To disobey a command of a colonel colo-nel is to invite disaster, as many a green rookie had learned. One morning on a tour of Inspection Inspec-tion a colonel stopped at the kitchen kitch-en of one of the companies in his command, where he met two K.P's with a large soup kettle. "Here, you K.P.," he bellowed. "Let me taste that soup." One of the men hurried back after a large spoon, which he handed respectfully respect-fully to the colonel. The officer plunged the ladle into the pot, took a mouthful of the steaming liquid, and smacked his lips critically. Then he let out a howl that could be heard at G.H.Q. half a mile away. "Soup, you blasted fool, do you call that soup?" he roared. "No, sir, colonel, that's just some dish water we was carrying out." |