A long way to go for a bonus...!

The Navy found they had too many officers and chiefs.

So they decided to offer an early retirement  bonus.

They promised any officer who volunteered for retirement 
a bonus of  $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line 
between any two  points in his  body. The officer got to 
choose what those two points would be. 

The first officer who  accepted, asked that he be measured 
from the top of his head to the  tip of his toes. He was measured 
at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000.

The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked 
to be  measured  from the tip of his outstretched hands to his toes. 
He walked out with $96,000.

The third one was a grizzly old Chief who, when asked where 
he would like to be measured replied, "From the tip of my penis to 
my testicles." It was  suggested by the pension man that he might 
want to  reconsider;  explaining about the nice big cheques the 
previous two officers had received. But the old Chief insisted and 
they decided to go along with him providing the measurement 
was taken by a medical officer.

The medical officer arrived and instructed the Chief to "drop 'em," 
which he did. The medical  officer placed the tape measure on the 
tip of the Chief's penis and began to work back. 

My God!" he suddenly exclaimed, "Where are your testicles?" 

The  old Chief calmly replied . . " Vietnam."