The Weight of Command

I have to share the post from Carlos. We were worrying about what might
keep the off-board
commanders busy. This could only have been written by someone who had served
time in the
services and had experienced some of the day-to-day insanity of life in
the cammie-jammies.

Here was Carlos' post on how to keep HQ busy:

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Well if you are worried about the HQ table than do what happens in real life,
have them continually harried to provide umpteen million reports to higher
authorities such as:

Justification for civilian clothing allowance reimbursement requests from SF
teams, responses to irate car rental establishments on how the toyota land
cruiser team 2 rented last August came back with a dent in the hood, the radio
antenna shot off and blood marks all over the carpet, honing the powerpoint
needed for when senators x and y from the house armed services committee come
in to see what the boys are up to next week, plus the 62 slide PPT needed for
the weekly command and staff briefing due tomorrow at 9AM, having to repond to
the base commanders irate ranting that supposedly one fo your men was seen
smuggling alcohol into the secure SF compound that's on his base but he can't
have access to, and why are his guys supposedly carrrying weapons in civilian
clothes while going
downtown for non-duty activities such as dinner, plus the reponse to the
report that due tomorrow to the UN investigators of why the two terrorists you
caught and handed over last week had scratch and scuff marks all over their
heads, (they claim you put a bucket over their heads while in detention and
banged on it with a hammer all night), the complaint from the air force
colonel that said he saw one of your guys coming back from the range in a
uniform that had unauthorized modifications plus needing a haircut plus having
his hands in his pockets and what kind of a soldier is that anyways?

Oh and there's the 19 year red bull guzzling air force LAN specialist attached
to your unit's support staff that suppsoedly downloaded 800 mbs of porn, and
has set up a full time Ultima Online L337 Hax0r game server which is
completely unathorized and in violation of base policy and now the base LAN
officer is considering pulling all IT service from your compound in
retaliation, (He's still aching over the fact that you guys managed to get a
64" plasma TV screen and sattelite service hook into your compund when he
can't.) And the same private now has charges brought against him anyways since
instead of manning the radio room back at the compound for this operation he
opted to go to a going away party for some base functionary leaving the other
radio operator high and dry and stuck on 24 hour watch.

Hey that oughtta keep em busy. Bob chime in here have I accurate
capturedsomeof the stupid stuff commanders worry about even when on
operations?