Beetle memorial

I'm actually going to try to be thematic here and post this item that's roughly on-topic for Memorial Day.  This, of course, is Beetle Bailey by Mort Walker.  This may be the first time I've ever seen a Beetle Bailey strip with actual fighting going on.  Usually the characters seem to be engaged in endless training exercises, if that (assuming, of course, that Beetle getting beat to a pulp on a regular basis constitutes a training exercise).

Of course Beetle didn't sart out in the military.  The strip ran for quite a while with Beetle and his friends in their original college habitat.  But what was supposed to be a short-lived story arc in the military turned out to be career... which Beetle probably technically should have retired from a decade or two ago.