Grant shares a bit of military humor related to cumshaw, the art of procuring what you need in ingenious ways: “There is only one thief in the army. Everyone else is just trying to get their stuff back.” This is part of a complete episode.
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Quite a while ago, we took a call from somebody asking about the word kamsha, which has a lot of meanings, but in one context in the military, it refers to the guy or gal who is really good at, shall we say, procuring stuff, right?
That is, they find stuff that’s not nailed down and bring it back to their unit so it can be used there.
Basically stealing from the government for the government’s purposes, right?
Right.
Cumsha, right?
Just the guy who’s pretty clever.
He’s a fixer and a finder and can solve your problems.
He knows, you know, he’s got answers, right?
Yeah, the guy you want to know.
Well, you know, I was reading, and I’m not quite sure where I came across this, but I wrote it down in my note file.
But there’s a great quote that perfectly describes this, which says that there is only one thief in the army.
Everyone else is just trying to get their stuff back.
And I thought that was wonderful.
The military is just rich with this kind of humor.
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