On a rather slow day, to further cement amicable relations between branches, the Department of Defense came up with a plan to have a massive camping trip involving all the actively enlisted men.
A grunt, a sailor and an airman found themselves together at a covered mess table. After customary greeting grunts and military slurs, they decided they might as well make the best of a bad situation and try to get along.
The sailor spoke first. “Hey. What didja guys bring along?”
“Well, I brought some bug spray,” the grunt said.
“Whatzzat for?” The other two asked.
“Keeps the bugs off, you dumb-asses.”
After several minutes of silence, the sailor spoke up again, nodding to the airman. “What didja bring?”
“A sleeping bag.”
“Why did ya do that? We already got some supplied,” the grunt pointed out.
The pampered airman responded, “Yea well, they didn’t have the nice thermal-padded ones.”
Rolling his eyes, the grunt looked ready to kick the airman’s rear. As he was standing up, the sailor coughed politely. The other two look him over to the sailor, who was grinning ear to ear. The airman asked the question which the sailor so obviously wanted to be asked. “What did you bring?”
“A car door.”
“What the hell would you need a car door for?!” The thoroughly agitated grunt yelped.
The sailor’s toothy smile got larger. “If we get hot, we can roll the window down.”