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Article #619887Re: Squaddies as software engineers?
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 03:00
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 03:00
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:38:04 +0000, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote: >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. > >True however at some point she would have drilled, scrubbed floors and >made a tight bed. For however long the OCS at Smith College ran. However in general officers don't scrub floors and nobody much cares what their bunks look like.
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