My first assignment — it was so typically Army you must hear about it: It was the eve of Thanksgiving, and I was scrubbing toilets out with a big brush, with a big scrubbing brush. I was busy scrubbing these latrines out and so forth, and an officer came to me and said,
“Come with me and bring the brush.”
So I said,
“Come with me and bring the brush.”
It was a huge pile of celery, they were preparing it for the officer’s mess the next day.
He says, “clean this celery off.”
I said, “but this brush, I just used it for cleaning toilets…”“That doesn’t make any difference, if it looks shiny and clean, that’s the Army, that’s all we want to know.”So there I was cleaning that celery for the officers the next day for their Thanksgiving dinner with a toilet brush. That’s so typically Army. I mean it’s marvelous, you know, and it just goes on. (Faith of an Observer)
Here’s a vegetable brush: