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Bahhhhgh!
The Army is doing it again. For a time, a couple of years back, while I was at Ft. Lewis, the Army Knowledge Online splash page was propagandizing soldiers.
I say this becaus unless one is "Active Army, Army Reserve, National Guard, DA Civilian, Retired Army, and Army Guests" one is never going to get past that page, and so isn't likely to be calling it up very often.
Which is why cutlines like this one annoy me.
Army engineers from Alaska-based Company C, 864th Engineer Combat Battalion, level a portion of the nearly completed 117-kilometer TK Road, stretching from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. The road will link vast, difficult-to-access portions of the country, fostering commerce and facilitating travel to election polling sites next month.
I like the pictures on that page. They show me some of what is going on in the army (I confess, the birthday wishes posted a few days ago bothered me, I can't say why, but they did. What happens if that poor guy doesn't get home? His wife saying every day is one day closer to them being together is going to be awfully painful, but I digress). But no one needs to pitch the doings of the Army to me in such a way as to convince me the policies which put us where we are are good, or important.
I don't, at a gut level, at the level on which I predicate my service (day to day, not year to year) give a damn about the policies. You don't need to sell me on them (unless you are asking me to give a thumbs up, or down, on one).
This one isn't the most blatant of it. I happen to think better roads are probably in the best interests of the Afghanis, but fostering commerce, facilitating elections? So what. They need roads, we build roads.
This is as bad as hearing about schools in Iraq.
I say this becaus unless one is "Active Army, Army Reserve, National Guard, DA Civilian, Retired Army, and Army Guests" one is never going to get past that page, and so isn't likely to be calling it up very often.
Which is why cutlines like this one annoy me.
Army engineers from Alaska-based Company C, 864th Engineer Combat Battalion, level a portion of the nearly completed 117-kilometer TK Road, stretching from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. The road will link vast, difficult-to-access portions of the country, fostering commerce and facilitating travel to election polling sites next month.
I like the pictures on that page. They show me some of what is going on in the army (I confess, the birthday wishes posted a few days ago bothered me, I can't say why, but they did. What happens if that poor guy doesn't get home? His wife saying every day is one day closer to them being together is going to be awfully painful, but I digress). But no one needs to pitch the doings of the Army to me in such a way as to convince me the policies which put us where we are are good, or important.
I don't, at a gut level, at the level on which I predicate my service (day to day, not year to year) give a damn about the policies. You don't need to sell me on them (unless you are asking me to give a thumbs up, or down, on one).
This one isn't the most blatant of it. I happen to think better roads are probably in the best interests of the Afghanis, but fostering commerce, facilitating elections? So what. They need roads, we build roads.
This is as bad as hearing about schools in Iraq.
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PV1 to PV2 is an advancement.
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