Taking Shots At The Range

I used to work with a registered nurse who was an Army reservist. She was telling me one day about her most recent attempt to qualify on a military pistol range. It evidently was not a success. The range Non-Commissioned Officer came up to her after she’d finished firing the 9MM.

NCO: “Ma’am, what do you do in the Army?”

Nurse: “I’m a nurse.”

There was a silence while the sergeant turned over in his mind what he might and might not get away with saying to a lieutenant.

NCO: *Finally.* “I guess it’s a good thing you’re fixin’ ’em and not shootin’ ’em.”