At 11:35 PM 1/30/03 -0500, Christopher Salmi wrote: > >"Seriously, sending them to Black may be an idea worth considering. At >least for those that are capable of being saved. If they don't shape up, I >am sure that I can find something for them until their tour runs out. At >that point, they are gone. We don't have to offer them the oppertunity to >sign up again. The other benefit is that if Black can't do a darned thing >with them, I am sure that Captain Polath can feed them to his targs...." > >"I doubt he would sully his tarrrgs' honorrr that way," she sighed. "He'd >just shoot them. Well, it sounds like a good plan. Tomorrrrow we'll go >overrr the prrrofiles of the ones I rrreplaced this morrrning and see who we >think arrre a waste of space and who just got lazy and can be > "Well, as a matter of fact, I do. There are some officers that I have >been watching for a while now. They do not have the experience that a >normal team leader has, but they have shown some damned fine instinct. Even >better is how they walk the fine line between the normal insane risks that >Spec Ops folk are trained to take, and just plain stupidity. Sure, they are >a bit under ripe, and sure they may take too many risks. However, they have >that special.... that special somethign that you don't see in those that >were not meant to do great things. I think we should do something bold to >hone their skills, to make leaders out of them. They are mostly JGs and >other yound Lt's, but I think they could be great if they had the right >motivation. Perhaps a few weeks of high intensity leadership training. We >could increase our number of team leaders by a good 20 to 30 in a matter of >a few weeks. Just what the doctor ordered for those new operatives we will >be getting in that amount of time. All we need is a good soul to train >these diamonds in the rough."
"You?" she asked bemusedly. (resp?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner! --Lynda Montgomery
