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Mods, can you lock this post? Responses are entirely too credible.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Post something funny, I’ll upvote you.
I thought I just did. 😞
I’m very well re[g]arded so it’s possible this went over my head
It’s reasonable to assume that many of us are veterans or to put it another way; can just as easily explain the US doctrine as jerk off in a porta-john in under 5 mins during an Iraqi summer.
Can I come in time before I pass out from heat exhaustion?
Challenge accepted.
The boobs drawn on the wall should help.
Bonus points if you pass out right when you get that release. Gotta time it right.
That’s more like it!
NCOs and local autonomy is OP. The soldier with the most info is the one with a gun in his hand. The closer the command structure is to that information source, the better everything runs.
As Von Steuben once said, the sergeant is the most important man in the Army.
I once read at the start of WW2 Germany’s military was decentralized and USSR’s was centralized. As the war progressed, that flipped. Certainly not the only reason why either side saw successes or failures but I thought it was interesting.
“The pinicle of military deployment approaches the formless. For if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make plans against it.” - Sun Tzu
Also digging up a whole area with artillery and bombs after a stray bullet came from somewhere over there makes a coordinated defence difficult at least.
