Y Sunday, September 27, 2009
11:05 pm
Apparently, the different departments of the military aren't so orchestrated in dealing with new recruits, especially us conscripts. (Technically, NS is kinda like conscription eh?)So I've got an up coming (possible) kidney problem, of which I have to collect my pee for 24 hours tomorrow. And induce diarrhea. Then go for an x-ray and blood test (for the third time) the next day.
Lovely lovely.
The next thing I know, the Navy sends another one of their recruitment promotion thing, and they included this triangular object (which you have to fold and paste yourself), which has three positions on each side. Powerpoint Manager. Excel Sheet Manager. Commanding Officer. Followed by my name. It's that triangular thing which you put on desks to show your name and position. The exact name escapes me.
Anyway, yes, Commanding Officer Ian with kidney failure. LOL.
Excel sheet manager and Powerpoint manager really stink, but those aren't actual positions. Come on.
It'd be clerk, or senior clerk, or presenter or whatever.
Add that I just saw Letters from Iwo Jima, and you see that war is really a terrible, horrifying thing no one should have to go through. Every soldier out there that died had a family. A mother, father. A wife. Children. Friends.
They're just like all of us. They have their story behind them, the own chapters of their lives that they've closed, or fresh ones that they're penning, even future, planned narrations.
They're the main characters of their lives, as much as we feel we are the stars of our lives.
I want no business with war.
Side note: It's always the Navy that sends their promotion thing. Makes you wonder. No one wants to join the Navy because, quite simply, it isn't attractive. IMO, our Navy is more of a glorified coast guard than anything else. We don't have them big mean ships because we don't need them.
See those Navy advertisements?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier
No really, I think a wiki page advertises better. This is what the US Navy has. That is why it is attractive to serve. Our largest ships are only a third as long and displace thirty times less water. IE. Frigates, the ships that they just LOVE to advertise. Read: Irrelevant except for patrol purposes.
Navy = Aicraft Carriers. Everything else is built around the carriers.
Commanding Officer Ian? Nah.
Chief Executive Officer Ian? Yeah, now we're talking.
Not disinformation, and no lies. Not with you. I promise.