Email Subject: Murphy’s Military Laws
Murphy’s Military Laws: 1. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 2. No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Murphy’s MilitaryLaws: 3. Friendly fire ain’t..
Murphy’s Military Laws: 4. The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 5. The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 6. The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 8. Incoming fire has the right of way..
Murphy’s Military Laws: 9. If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 10. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 11. If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
Murphy Military Laws: 12. The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions
Murphy’s Military Laws: 13. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 14. There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
Murphy’s Military Laws: 15. Don’t be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants
Murphy’s Military Laws: 16. If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
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