Could you please pass the salt?

Well, if you needed any further proof that the military is scraping the bottom of the barrel, I was just promoted to Master Sergeant yesterday.  I wish I had a ‘way back machine’ so that I could see the expression of the 18 year old version of myself as I tell him I’d be a master sergeant one day.  I seem to recall telling a first sergeant at one point in my early years “I’ll sell pencils on the street before I reenlist in the Army.”

I’m still eating crow over that one (and I’m a vegetarian!)