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Reminders of Armyisms

The Army, especially above the company level is such a dysfunctional animal as far as staffing and resourcing goes. I often wonder how we get anything done that requires coordination at those levels. From what I see, it seems that some rep at the company level tends to step up and handle the coordinations, because no organization on Earth subscribes more stringently to the “Peter principle” than the United States Army.

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Two weeks in the woods

It blows my mind how bad the Army is at integrating communications between adjacent units, or even same unit staff sections.

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