An Israeli soldier who just enlisted asked the Commanding Officer for a 3-day pass.
The CO says „Are you crazy? You just join the Israeli army, and you already want a 3-day pass? You must do something spectacular for that recognition!“
So the soldier comes back a day later in an Arab tank!
The CO was so impressed, he asked „How did you do it?“
„Well, I jumped in a tank, and went toward the border with the Arabs. I approached the border, and saw an Arab tank. I put my white flag up, the Arab tank put his white flag up. I said to the Arab soldier, „Do you want to get a three-day pass? So we exchanged tanks!“
At one Army base, the annual trip to the rifle range had been canceled for the second year in a row, but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One soldier mused, „Does it bother anyone else that the Army doesn’t seem to care how well we can shoot, but they are extremely interested in how fast we can run?“
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Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. -Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1856