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Article #619883Re: Squaddies as software engineers?
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:50
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:50
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On 24/01/2018 20:23, Dave Garland wrote: > On 1/24/2018 2:16 AM, AndyW wrote: >> On 23/01/2018 23:21, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: >>> Hardly. >>> >>> Free thinking creativity is not in the mindset of the squaddie. >> >> For front line troops whose job is to run headlong into gunfire may >> require blind obedience but the other armed forces, particularly those >> who operate in a support role then there are a lot of clever, >> innovative people out there. >> >> One of my personal heroes was a rear admiral in the US navy and was >> the oldest serving woman in the US Navy at one time, Grace Hopper. >> There is no way on earth you could say that she was not a free >> thinking creative. > > I'm not sure anyone has ever characterized Grace. Hopper as a "squaddie" > before. Rank is only a way of disguising lavatory cleaner or teaboy when it comes to squaddies whether land, sea or air based, all of them disreputable for existing to kill their fellow man or to aid and abet such killing. At one time, Brit, for example, did not have a standing army and there is no justification for its existence today. Such armed farces are irrelevant to the societal problem of today which is the Islamic jihadist.
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