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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: > I went "the other way" in the Army, finding myself in a tropical > climate where the main diet was rice, with a few vegetables and maybe > a water buffalo, when the gunner "forgot" to clear the M2-HB before > attempting to "clean" it. In my (somewhat limited) experience, the > officers were there to get some combat time, and pay, into their > service records, as a stepping stone to further promotion. Net > result: the sergeants ran the Army while the officers "fought the > battles" and collected the medals. Needless to say, I have a very low > opinion of high-flying "leaders" that don't share the hardships of > those who are "led". re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#61 Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM? for other boyd drift, he did yr running datacenter at "spook base" ... possibly largest in the world ... at least in the fareast, at the time, claim was that it represented a $2.5B windfall for IBM. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#1 Dangerous Hardware http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#2 Dangerous Hardware http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#5 Dangerous Hardware http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#51 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#13 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#4 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies and for other drift ... boyd's briefing on "organic design for command and control" ... past posts mentioning the briefing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#34 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#33 Star Trek: TNG reference http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#34 Star Trek: TNG reference http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#46 employee motivation & executive compensation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#25 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#34 I am an ageing techy, expert on everything. Let me explain the http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#69 Organizations with two or more Managers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#1 [Lit.] Buffer overruns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#2 [Lit.] Buffer overruns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#3 Computerworld Article: Dress for Success? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#14 Why? (Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS??? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#25 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#35 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source and as before ... lots of other past posts mentioning Boyd as well as other URLs from around the web http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
