How'd you do that? I always wondered how that was done.

[Ranchhand]

Retired Military, spent so long doing so much with so little, eventually got where we could do anything with nothing!
Always trying to do more with less.
Some of the more mature may remember hearing that claim in VN. I'm sure it was probably originally coined in an earlier time & place.

[Frank S]

Let me see if I can remember the engraving on my old Zippo
I am the unwilling, trained by the unknowing, ordered by the uncaring to lay down my life for the ungrateful. I have done so much with so little for so long that I am now comfortable to accomplish anything with absolutely nothing.
There has been and always will be only three people on this planet in whom I can trust, so from now until the ends of time I will only answer to ME, Myself, and I
It was my personal variation to the phrase
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