The Weight of Command

I have to share the post from Carlos. We were worrying about what might
keep the off-board
commanders busy. This could only have been written by someone who had
served time in the
services and had experienced some of the day-to-day insanity of life in
the cammie-jammies. 

Here was Carlos' post on how to keep HQ busy:

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Well if you are worried about the HQ table than do what happens in real
life, have them
continually harried to provide umpteen million reports to higher
authorities such as:

Justification for civilian clothing allowance reimbursement requests
from SF teams,
responses to irate car rental establishments on how the toyota land
cruiser team 2 rented
last August came back with a dent in the hood, the radio antenna shot
off and blood marks
all over the carpet, honing the powerpoint needed for when senators x
and y from the house
armed services committee come in to see what the boys are up to next
week, plus the 62
slide PPT needed for the weekly command and staff briefing due tomorrow
at 9AM, having to
repond to the base commanders irate ranting that supposedly one fo your
men was seen
smuggling alcohol into the secure SF compound that's on his base but he
can't have access
to, and why are his guys supposedly carrrying weapons in civilian
clothes while going
downtown for non-duty activities such as dinner, plus the reponse to the
report that due
tomorrow to the UN investigators of why the two terrorists you caught
and handed over last
week had scratch and scuff marks all over their heads, (they claim you
put a bucket over
their heads while in detention and banged on it with a hammer all
night), the complaint
from the air force colonel that said he saw one of your guys coming back
from the range in
a uniform that had unauthorized modifications plus needing a haircut
plus having his hands
in his pockets and what kind of a soldier is that anyways?

Oh and there's the 19 year red bull guzzling air force LAN specialist
attached to your
unit's support staff that suppsoedly downloaded 800 mbs of porn, and has
set up a full
time Ultima Online L337 Hax0r game server which is completely
unathorized and in violation
of base policy and now the base LAN officer is considering pulling all
IT service from
your compound in retaliation, (He's still aching over the fact that you
guys managed to
get a 64" plasma TV screen and sattelite service hook into your compund
when he can't.)
And the same private now has charges brought against him anyways since
instead of manning
the radio room back at the compound for this operation he opted to go to
a going away
party for some base functionary leaving the other radio operator high
and dry and stuck on
24 hour watch.

Hey that oughtta keep em busy. Bob chime in here have I accurate
capturedsomeof the stupid
stuff commanders worry about even when on operations? 

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It just about scored a keyboard kill, I read it while drinking a beer. 

Tomb