Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Share

Pungent comment of the day award goes to this new blog:

By now, everyone at the CO/TRP level and maybe a few rebels on BN staff have read the now infamous Powerpoint Kinda Sucks article that got a reserve Colonel fired. For those of you keeping score at home, the following will get you fired from your position in the Army:

The following are still safe:

I love that Wanat reference.

(HT to Mr. Starbuck)

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OLDLOAD

8:44 PM ET

September 11, 2010

Feisty LTs

I hope the Army doesn't grind down and spit out these junior officers; they have potential...

 

TYRTAIOS

7:47 PM ET

September 12, 2010

Fiesty Indeed

Yes they do have potential. The damn problem is: the state of the art of radios, which makes colonels and generals in the rear think they're running things out there on the pointy end.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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