The Army Airborne major was used to harassment from Air Force
fliers about crazy Army paratroopers jumping out of perfectly good
aircraft.
"Obviously the Air Force knows there's no such thing as a
'perfectly good aircraft,'" the irritated officer finally countered
one afternoon, "because they pay you bastards four times as much to
stay in one as the Army pays its men to jump."
"You've got it all wrong, Major," an Air Force sergeant
replied.
"The Army figures anyone stupid enough to jump out of an airplane
voluntarily is gonna be too dumb to bitch about the
salary."
