A group of new recruits was going through basic training in World War II. Unfortunately, there were not enough rifles to go around.

The sergeant gave a very gullible young man from the Tennessee Mountains a broomstick instead and told him, "When you need to shoot, just point this and say, 'Bangity, bangity, bang!'" There was not even a bayonet for the young soldier so the sergeant, tying a stick to the end of the broom, said, "If you get into hand-to-hand combat just poke the enemy with this and say'stabbit…