road-crossing chickens and ECC

Issue: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Military reasons:

TRADOC: The purpose is to familiarize the chicken with road-crossing 
procedures.  Road-crossing should be performed only between the hours of

sunset and sunrise.  Solo chickens must have at least three miles of 
visibility and a safety observer. 

Special Forces Command: The chicken crossed at a 90-degree angle to
avoid 
prolonged exposure to a line of communication.	To achieve maximum
surprise, 
the chicken should have performed this maneuver at night using NVGs, 
preferably near a road bend in a valley. 

Army Personnel Command: Due to the needs of the Army, the chicken was 
involuntarily reassigned to the other side of the road.  This will be a 
3-year controlled tour and we promise to give the chicken a good-deal 
assignment afterwards.	Every chicken will be required to do one 
road-crossing during its career, and this will not affect its
opportunities 
for future promotion. 

Defense Intelligence Agency: Despite what you see on CNN, I can neither 
confirm nor deny any fowl performing acts of transit.  Questions? 
Please 
see the SSO. 

Fort Rucker: The chicken should log this as a GCC sortie only if 
road-crossing qualified.  The crossing updates the chicken's 60-day 
road-crossing currency only if performed on a Monday or Thursday or
during a 
full moon.  Instructor chickens may update currency any time they
observe 
another chicken cross the road. 

FORSCOM: The purpose is not important.	What is important is that the 
chicken remained under the OPCON of USCINCTRANS and did not CHOP to the 
theater on the other side of the road.	Without CHOPping, the chicken
was 
able to achieve a seamless road-crossing with near perfect, real-time 
in-transit visibility. 

Theater Air Control Center: We need the road-crossing time and the time
the 
chicken becomes available for another crossing. 

COMMAND POST: What chicken? 

TOWER: The chicken was instructed to hold short of the road.  This 
road-incursion incident was reported in a Hazardous Chicken
Road-Crossing 
Report (HCRCR).  Please re-emphasize that chickens are required to read
back 
all hold short instructions. 

ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND: Recent changes in technology, coupled with
today's 
multipolar strategic environment, have created new challenges in the 
chicken's ability to cross the road.  The chicken was also faced with 
significant challenges to create and develop core competencies required
for 
this new environment.  AMC's Chicken Systems Program Office (CSPO), in a

partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by
rethinking 
its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes.  Using
the 
Poultry Integration Model (PIM) CSPO helped the chicken use its skills, 
methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to align the chicken's 
people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy
within a 
Program Management framework.  The CSPO convened a diverse
cross-spectrum of 
road analysts and retired chickens along with MITRE consultants with
deep 
skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary
of 
meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge and capital, both

tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in
order 
to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully
architecting 
and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum
of 
poultry cross-median processes.  The meeting was held in a park-like
setting 
enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically 
based, mission-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified 
Mission Need Statement and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision,
and 
core values.  This was conducive toward the creation of a total business

integration solution.  The Chicken Systems Program Office helped the
chicken 
change to continue meeting its mission. 

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yet, that is)...or back on here next week!

Mk