This (see attached) from the humor thread of another forum I watch but pretty neat. And I agree with Scout that there are intangibles that our military provides to or brings out in our troops that other countries cannot.

That joke has been around at least since I was a private 23 years ago, it is pretty good though.  There are plenty of great military jokes out there, below is one of the funniest and one I always like telling to fresh butterbar's.

Five Officers boarded a train just behind five NCOs, who, as a group had only purchased one ticket. Just before the conductor came through, all the NCOs piled into the toilet stall at the back of the car. As the conductor passed the stall, he knocked and called “Tickets, please!” and one of the NCOs slid a ticket under the door. It was punched, pushed back under the door, and when it was safe all the NCOs came out and took their seats. The Officers were tremendously impressed by the NCOs' ingenuity. On the trip back, the five Officers decided to try this themselves and purchased only one ticket. They noticed that, oddly, the NCOs had not purchased any tickets this time. Anyway, again, just before the conductor came through, the NCOs piled into one of the toilet stalls, the Officers into the other. Then one of the NCOs leaned out, knocked on the Officers's stall and called “Ticket, Please!” When the ticket slid out under the door, he picked it up and quickly closed the door.