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the long warred's avatar

You wanna know who should really run the TOC&ALOC?

An NYC Manhattan office building maintenance manager who understands infrastructure, power, water, communications, networks, the infrastructure of a building, even BTW steam turbine power and heat (still used in NYC).

Not “STEM” majors lol.

Yes, he’ll know where the fsking units are, if anyone does…

That’s the proper XO. 😘

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

Your note reminds me of the German custom of employing older reservists as headquarters commandants.

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the long warred's avatar

😊❤️🤣 seriously if you understand the modern building, and by modern I mean the last 150 years-

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

Was it not Meghan Trainor who sang ...

"I'm all about that VAC, heat and VAC, no windows"

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the long warred's avatar

If the telephone chained the commander, the radio freed him.

Or COULD if he and these monstrous Command Pustles, Tactical Occlusion Carbuncles , Cosplay of ComicCon and Orwell as NASA knockoff could be separated.

We don’t even need these staffs, our Commanders are hardly spoiled aristocracy or Politicians made Generals needing to be hand held through war…

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Terry Tucker's avatar

Interesting assessment and in a sense, and highlights the use and abuse of military history. The Soviets and US Military underwent so called RMA- Revolutions in Military Affairs in the mid 80'S with the resurrection of the Deep Battle and then again in the 90s circa the 5 years before and after that 100 hour live fire exercise commonly called Gulf War I. Again, many are now pointing to Ukraine and Russia as a matter of a revolution in affairs, but this is not so much a revolution as much as it is creative innovation of the use of Drones. Paradoxically the use of mining operations were used by the Russians to good effect near Kiev and the return to small unit tactics, dispersion and Storm Troops is really reminiscent of WW I.

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