On a joint naval exercise, US President Bush, UK PM Gordon
Brown, PM Lee of Singapore met on board the RSS Courageous.
They were commenting on how their soldiers were the best. So
they agreed to put the statement to a test by asking each country’s
soldier to dive into shark infested waters and bring one shark back
on board.
Bush ordered the Marine down. After evaluating the situation,
the marine took the needed equipment to protect himself and
minimize his risk and dive in and successfully came back with a few
bruises and a SHARK. Bush happily exclaimed, “Look what we have
here! A Smart Soldier!”
Not to be outdone, PM Brown commanded his royal marine down. The
soldier, even without accessing the situation, jumped into the sea
with only a knife and came up bruised and battered, but still alive
with the shark. PM Brown was estatic and said, “This is what
soldiers are made of! Guts!”
Feeling a little bit worried, PM Lee asked his general for any
soldier and the general selected Pte Beng. On hearing the order to
jump, Pte Beng looked into the ocean and on seeing so many sharks,
was flabberghasted!
Pte Beng turned to PM Lee and said, “You Siao Ah! So many sharks
and you asked me to jump in. You Jump then i jump lah!”…
Oh hearing that, all 3 PMs looked at each other and an awkard
silence falls onto the ship… Finally PM Lee broke the silence and
beaming proudly said… “Now, this is our soldier! SMART Thinking and
Got GUTS !”