So, I work for a cell phone company in a calling center. We give military personnel good deals on cell phones, but getting them requires doing a substantial (to a civilian) amount of paperwork. I have never once had anyone complain about it.
I forget the guy's name (wrote Snow Crash) but he always says something in each of his books about how the military's primary purpose is really to shuffle paper around from place to place, and only fights wars when it's not busy doing paperwork. (Except in one of his books in which he said that a medieval army was really a huge production designed for turning oats into horse shit.)
That said, I've always admired the military for the unique way it has of doing everything. I'm not sure how to describe it but I'm sure you know what I mean. Everything is accounted for, has a definite way of being done, has been described in a manual somewhere.
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So, I work for a cell phone company in a calling center. We give military personnel good deals on cell phones, but getting them requires doing a substantial (to a civilian) amount of paperwork. I have never once had anyone complain about it.
I forget the guy's name (wrote Snow Crash) but he always says something in each of his books about how the military's primary purpose is really to shuffle paper around from place to place, and only fights wars when it's not busy doing paperwork. (Except in one of his books in which he said that a medieval army was really a huge production designed for turning oats into horse shit.)
That said, I've always admired the military for the unique way it has of doing everything. I'm not sure how to describe it but I'm sure you know what I mean. Everything is accounted for, has a definite way of being done, has been described in a manual somewhere.
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