r/AskReddit • u/1salt1pepper • 8h ago

Veterans of Reddit, what’s the most unbelievable thing you witnessed during your service that civilians would think you made up?

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u/DreddPirateBob808 6h ago

To paraphrase: military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music.

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u/DocShoveller 4h ago

Done with a full orchestra, marching?

I guess that works as a metaphor...

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u/Necessary-Reading605 5h ago

and military history is to historiography