The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Friday, October 4, 2024
Makes you think...
Found on several social media channels (origin unknown). Clickit to biggit.
Yeah . . . that makes this old fart feel very glad he's not in uniform any longer!
Peter
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Anonymous
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Until the benchpresser also has drones that eats the dweebdrones, and advances to meet the now droneless dweeb. You are the weapon, all the other stuff is tools and accoutrements, always was.
Reminds me of the closing lines from an introduction, written by David Drake, to an anthology titled "Men Hunting Things", and they go something like this: "That's not to say that there is no similarity between hunting and war these days. Quite the contrary. Modern soldiers and hunted beasts have a great deal in common."
Well, my Dad - 5' 7" and only approaching 140 in his sedentary years - was in the Artillery unit during WWII. He used his math skills to take down quite a few Nazis. That was when you actually had to know quite a bit to calculate the trajectory of the big guns. Actually, the same is true of drone specialists. They aren't like the hobbyists that use seat-of-the-pants to have fun playing with it (and occasionally wreck it in a crash, or lose it in a tree). My son-in-law is a licensed commercial drone pilot, and I know from helping him on some of the test prep that it's a VERY skilled position. The cost of the Army's drones is considerably more than the ones kids play with. You BETTER know your stuff when you take one of those babies out. So, there are the guys who bulk up (the better to hand-carry all that equipment into the field), but the best part of them is that they are SMART. Most soldiers can talk your ear off about the complexities of their equipment, and how to best deploy it in the field. They really do have to be skilled.
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Until the benchpresser also has drones that eats the dweebdrones, and advances to meet the now droneless dweeb. You are the weapon, all the other stuff is tools and accoutrements, always was.
Reminds me of the closing lines from an introduction, written by David Drake, to an anthology titled "Men Hunting Things", and they go something like this: "That's not to say that there is no similarity between hunting and war these days. Quite the contrary. Modern soldiers and hunted beasts have a great deal in common."
Well, my Dad - 5' 7" and only approaching 140 in his sedentary years - was in the Artillery unit during WWII.
He used his math skills to take down quite a few Nazis. That was when you actually had to know quite a bit to calculate the trajectory of the big guns.
Actually, the same is true of drone specialists. They aren't like the hobbyists that use seat-of-the-pants to have fun playing with it (and occasionally wreck it in a crash, or lose it in a tree).
My son-in-law is a licensed commercial drone pilot, and I know from helping him on some of the test prep that it's a VERY skilled position. The cost of the Army's drones is considerably more than the ones kids play with. You BETTER know your stuff when you take one of those babies out.
So, there are the guys who bulk up (the better to hand-carry all that equipment into the field), but the best part of them is that they are SMART. Most soldiers can talk your ear off about the complexities of their equipment, and how to best deploy it in the field. They really do have to be skilled.
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