Joke Thread

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JOKE WAS ON NORTH VIETNAMESE !!!
 

 

He sabotaged enemy trucks… while pretending he couldn’t read.
In April 1967, Doug Hegdahl, a 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor, was blown overboard from the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin. He floated for 12 hours before being captured by North Vietnamese fishermen—and delivered to Hỏa Lò Prison, known grimly as the “Hanoi Hilton.”
The captors thought they had caught an unremarkable man.
So Hegdahl played along.
He pretended to be illiterate. Faked confusion. Flubbed every task on purpose. They called him “the incredibly stupid one.” That label gave him access the others didn’t have.
He was assigned as a camp groundskeeper. But instead of sweeping, he slipped sand into gas tanks, disabling five military trucks. He also memorized the names, dates, and details of 256 fellow POWs—by turning them into lyrics set to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm.
In 1969, he was released in a prisoner exchange. U.S. officials thought he was just a low-ranking sailor.
Until he sang.
His memory revealed 63 missing American servicemen were still alive. His information exposed torture methods and forced confessions. And his “simple act” became one of the most effective intelligence recoveries of the entire Vietnam War.
All because he made them think he was too dumb to matter.
Had you ever heard of Doug Hegdahl before? Would you have played it smart — or stupid?
 

After the war he taught at SERE schools for USN I attended in 1979. 

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taco Tuesday on the jobsite

 

 

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