One day four young men turn up outside the pearly gates. St Peter explains that before they can pass they must answer one simple question. Up walks the first guy. St Peter asks "What's 2+2?" The chap answers: "3." "NO," says St Peter. "5." "NO," says St Peter. "4." "Yes; in you go." Up comes the second guy. "What's 2 + 2?" The chap answers "The square root of 16." Very impressed St Peter allows him past. Up comes the third guy. "What's 2 + 2?" "It's greater than 2." "Yes." "But less than 6." "Yes." "It's greater than 3." "Yes." "But less than 5." "Yes." "It's 4." "Well done, in you go" Up comes the fourth chap. "What's 2 + 2?" "5, Hoo-ah" he barges past St Peter and in through the pearly gates. An angel had overseen all this and comes up to St Peter and asks "What was all that about?" St Peter answers "It's perfecty obvious: an army HUMMER must have crashed somewhere and those four men were all officers, and were killed." "How can you tell?" enquires the angel. "The first guy was infantry, he didn't get there at first but he kept hammering away until he overcame. The second guy was an engineer, he gave me more information than I really required. The third guy was artillery, he used bracketing to zero in. But what about the fourth guy?" enquired the angel. "He got it wrong and he still barged passed." "Ahh" said St Peter, "That was the cavalry: thick as s**t, but you've got to love 'em." Back to Dispatch Apr 2000 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com