> > It took only a few moments to generate the reports that she
wanted,
> >after she entered all of the requests in. She found that those stations
on
> >the major contested borders- Romulan Neutral zone and the Cardassian
DMZ -
> >had unusual number of casualties. Unusual meaning more than 40% of their
> >missions. The number of repeat mission was also a staggering number. On
> >those same borders it appeared as if 50% of the missions were repeat-
same
> >location similar intended goal. However, the alarming correlation was
that
> >the vast majority of the casualities were occuring on the repeat
missions.
> >The more times a mission was repeated (again same location or similar
goals)
> >the higher the number of casualities.
>
> She was extremely angry about what she read, and she felt a throbbing
> headache coming on because of it. She made a draft of a standing order
> forbidding repeat missions to the same locale unless absolutely necessary,
> making sure it was understood there would be a review of repeated
missions,
> and if any were found to be unnecessary, the CO would be formally
> reprimanded or worse, depending on the frequency and severity of the
> violation. She didn't send it out, but kept it in draft form. She may
> need to add to it later.
>
> >As kitanya started to go over the reports, she found many of them to be
dry
> >and somehow lacking. Very similar to those she read from Outpost Pumace.
> >Perhaps a bit more digging she woudl find that Pumace was not an isolated
> >story....
>
> She spent the rest of the day and into the evening, looking at the
numbers,
> reading the reports. It was obvious no one had bothered to do this kind
of
> overall review in a very long time, and it was also clear that
> imcompetance, laziness and neglect were the trademarks of her
organization.
> She rubbed her eyes, tired of reading the same sad story over and over
> again. Granite and Pumace were just examples of the larger problems.
Good
> people getting hurt because of incompetant CO's, like Granite, and good
> people driven to despair because they weren't allowed to do their jobs,
> like Pumace.
>
> Spec Ops was a small part of Starfleet; their numbers were not very big,
> and yet they served a vital function that could not be replaced. So she
> did not have many people to choose from to fill the gaps and replace the
> problems. She'd fixed two problems, but there were so many more she
> couldn't possibly fix them all anytime in the near future. Silently, she
> wished for a hundred Aureliuses, devoted, honest people who only wanted
the
> best for their division and for Starfleet. But she only had one, and so
> they would have to stick together and do the best they could.
>
> She got up and got a cup of Caitian coffee from the replicator, then sat
> back down to see what else she could glean from the fragmented reports.
>
As she was drinking her coffee and reading she was interrupted by a
hrooible sound outside of her office.
A nasty squeel, followed by, "Out of my way pig!!!! A captain
does not wait for ensigns. Go eat soemthing or whatever else you do."
The door opened and in walked an annoyed Aurelius. He looked deep
in thought, and once he realized where he was his expression switched to a
more pleasant one.
"Admiral, I have an idea. A crazy idea, but I think that it
will work. It will solve our problem of recruitment and our staffing
issues. Let's take over the strike teams from Intel. Seriously, their
strike teams only duplicate our work. We can work with Intell, it has been
done before and it can be done now. All it would take is a great proposal,
some buy in from intell and Lasiter to approve it. It can be done. You
told me before that Lasiter wanted you to be able to increase the ranks of
Spec Ops quickly after three months, well this would be a good plan for
doing just that without going through all of the crap involved with training
and getting people up to speed. Besides most of those folks over there are
zealots with respect to their loyality and dedication to Starfleet and to
the mission we serve. I think it is well worth the attempt." the captain
said obviously happy that he found a solution to a few of their current
issues.
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