Miss D. found this on Facebook and forwarded it to me.
Based on my experience in uniform, I can so believe that . . .
Peter
Heh
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!
Isn't there a truism that the most dangerous thing around is a 2LT with a map and compass?
One outfit I was in had a 2LT who was a recent graduate from Michigan State and a product of their ROTC program. He was a nice guy so we took pity on him and helped him get his C Ration cans open. He was a long time figuring out the P-38.
@John
Jerry Pournelle sad just that and then admitted he had one of the 2LTs with a map at one time.
@Jim
Hard to believe he'd never seen a P-38 before he was commissioned. I saw them as a kid in the 7th grade, although I was an Air Force brat and I was many times the envy of my classmates when I brought Cs for lunch.
Ooh, that's SO possible!
Hey, it was only three days and the fast did me good….
Second Lieutenants with maps and compasses are a menace, but if you want real danger, you need a field grade who has just been visited by The Good Idea Fairy ™.
Or, worse yet, a Warrant Officer who has decided to revisit the days of his misspent youth, and do something "the old way"…