Military Mates

This was sent to me on email.........its so true

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you are too busy to talk to them for a week.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after many years; and will
happily carry on the same conversation you were having last time you
met.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr and Mrs.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Call your parents Mum and Dad.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and then tell you what you did was
wrong.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you saying, 'Mate...we
stuffed up ...but what a laugh?
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Cry with you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Could write a book with a shed full of direct quotes from you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will kick the backsides of whole crowds that left you
behind.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, 'I'm home, got any beer!
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Share a few experiences.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Share a lifetime of experiences no civilian could ever dream of.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had
enough.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and
say,'You had better drink the rest of that, don't waste it. Then they
carry you home and put you safely to bed.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk **** to the person who talks **** about you.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will knock the **** out of people who use your name in vain.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know where you buried the body.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Helped you bury the body.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will call you 'mate' as a term of endearment.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will call you 'W**ker' or 'To**er' as a term of
endearment.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are for life

Very true that Paul

I agree with all stated.

Paul,

There really is a lot of truth in that.

cant get any better..lots of my mates go back over 40 years..hoppy ,mal ball to name a couple