Loved it! Somehow somebody figures a way to do it. It works. Then somebody from Hq gets their scivvies in a wad. I, too, was BC! Pablo.
Mustang,
Were you Burns, the lieutenant, the gunny or the staff sergeant?
Uh, are you aware of your rights...of course you are. Me reminding you of ANYTHING about the UCMJ is like taking coals to Newcastle.
Do you recall typing training skeds on the awful big blue papers? Gad, I was a Pvt and was working on one in the S-3 office...before I went to boot camp. I was in VMF-141 at NAS, Oakland, CA. It no longer exists. I worked on the damn thing for two days. So many errors and corrections it looked like it had been shot with a shotgun.
Company admin had a few good points. We did our own ID cards and dog tags. It wasn't, however, very efficient, especially when those Disbursing types wanted everything just so.
Many chuckles from many memories.
I never had to deal with anything administrative, unless you count the scores of medical records I had to ready for IG inspections when I was at Ft. Riley (1st/7th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division).
I'd love to see how military medical records look today.
A little education story, with a few similarities....
A survey of some sort arrived to the private school where I was working. One of my students, C., was an interesting mix of races. Furthermore, she was very open about it--no sensitivity whatsoever.
It came time to fill in the circles for her race. I asked her, "How do you want me to categorize you, C.?"
After hearing all the choices, including declining to say (only one completed circle allowed), C. laughed and said, "Give them a thrill. Fill in Native American. I've got some of that blood, too."
That little moment I just described happened nearly 20 years ago, but it has stuck with me as one of the more amusing moments of my teaching career.
Of course, we could kind of revolt. If we all put down, say, South Seas Islander...would that shut down the world? It would give many ninnies in DC and the area around it...pause.
Well, maybe not. What, indeed, are all those stats used for?
Too many forms, meetings, studies, grants, seminars, retreats.
While I am thinking of it. How about all government meetings being held with no chairs in the rooms? Say what you have to say and then shut up. No non-essential info, e.g. a complete run down on what a swell job your section has done in the last week.
I suppose that were it not for the two laws mentioned in this article, some (democratic) states would still oberve "Jim Crow." The problem with any law is that it isn't worth a damn if it cannot be enforced. It cannot be enforced if there is not some bureaucracy to administer it. What this means is that there will ALWAYS be a job for bureaucrats, our taxes will always pay their salaries, and there will probably never be justice.
“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
~~James Madison
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