Yeah, I'm off work today and I want to let y'all know that you can get to Iraq Now again. I really liked this post and when reading the following:
I don’t know if I can describe how it feels to hear a vehicle full of people all locking and loading simultaneously. I don’t know if I’d call it a ritual in the religious sense—it’s a purely practical gesture. But it definitely has a way of preparing the spirit.
Can't you just picture Kim du Toit salivating when he reads this?
And Jason is an officer who gets it.
Good units are commanded by officers, but they are run by NCOs!
Amen to that! When I was in the Navy, from 1965 to 1969, I saw that most of the work was done by E5's and lower. Most of the junior officers I worked for made me think that people went to college to learn how to be stupid. Probably all the smart college graduates figgered out how to stay out of the military and all that were left were dumb ones. And the dumbest of them all were sent to the Gator (Amphibious) Navy. I think in three years, on two separate ships, I only met one junior officer who was worth his salt.