Notebook entry
22 reports given, e-mail catch-up, early out, weapons cleaning,
curious case, shaking one-on-one.
Journal entry
I did my normal Friday routine. I slept in until 0630, caught up on
E-mails, cleaned my weapon. I
tried to talk to Suzan in the morning, but she was out. I watched the Curious Case of Benjamin
Button in the afternoon. I
thought it was good, but for all of the hype it wasn’t great.
I worked on networking and contacting recruiters because of the new
order that talks about the ability to get out 12 mo before your EAS.
The only thing of significance was the LtCol deflecting a 1 on 1
with the SecDef. He used
the reason that he did not want to offend the general by meeting with him alone
as an ETT. Capt Nowak was
also personally invited to a luncheon with the SecDef and was told to ignor it
on the procedural grounds that the requirement needed to be provided to the
team, and that we would source it. Instead
we are doing the walkabout with the SecDef and that’s it. This pissed off Brian, Graham and
me. Its annoying because
the man seems to be trying to get to ground truth, and is doing it the best way
possible, removing the brass and having one on ones with the people with
experience. I spoke to the
Colonel about it this morning (the 9th) (I should not disguise how
difficult this was to do it is not a comfortable situation to talk to a man many
years your senior, who outranks you by a significant degree, but I figured I
was asking him to do the same thing, and the issue was significant enough--not
being entirely honest with the civilians who run the military--that I decided
to confront him on it) and he said this was not the forum to address these
concerns. He said
that he was going to bring up the ethnicity and logistic issues that they were
having, but was not going to bring up corruption, personalities, etc because
those issues are too micro-but a 240 Bravo class is somehow strategic? He said that I could go to the
luncheon if I liked and air my concerns. I think that I will, and I think that
I will find a nerd and chew his ear off about how this level of command is
nonfunctional. After I was
done talking to him he yelled at Capt Arthur and Capt Brawny for not having the
balls to talk to him, I wasn't trying to incite that.
I also got into it with Capt Brawny about David Ricardo and the
theory of comparative advantage. I
proved to him mathematically. He’s
like ‘when they closed the Caterpillar plant in IL, that screwed hundreds of
people’ sigh, his Republicanism is founded in shock-jocks, and anecdotal
evident not economics. I
occasionally forget that he is impervious to logic on anything that remotely
approached politics. Brian picked up where I left off being an econ major, I put in my headphones and
finished watching my movie.
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