Tomorrow I hang up my cammies for the last time...

[First Shirt]

5) That goes doubly so for "opportunities" with Christians In Action

That would be "Competence Is Accidental"

Worked with a few of them over the years. "Clowns In Automobiles" would suit about as well.

[randy]

5) That goes doubly so for "opportunities" with Christians In Action

That would be "Competence Is Accidental"

Worked with a few of them over the years. "Clowns In Automobiles" would suit about as well.

"Clowns In Action" has been my usual reference phrase. The only people I ever worked with that made them look competent were some State Department weenies.

[First Shirt]

5) That goes doubly so for "opportunities" with Christians In Action

That would be "Competence Is Accidental"

Worked with a few of them over the years. "Clowns In Automobiles" would suit about as well.

"Clowns In Action" has been my usual reference phrase. The only people I ever worked with that made them look competent were some State Department weenies.

Amen, Brother!!!! Preach the Word!!

[toad]

Anybody that the State Dept. had on staff that was competent started bailing out decades ago. I worked with a guy who had married a staffer. Apparently the State Dept. had developed over the years, some rules of thumb about when a 2nd world country was getting ready to go third world. As time went on the ticks in charge ignored the "lessons learned" because they didn't fit what the lords and masters wanted hear so that more and more warnings were ignored to the extent that nobody who knew anything gave them out anymore. The wife was in one country that started showing the signs so she bailed instead of trying to hang till retirement age.
The sad news is that the US is starting to exhibit some of the signs. Power outages, despite abundant natural resources, unemployment rising, crime rising, and etc.

[Vonz90]

That would be "Competence Is Accidental"

Worked with a few of them over the years. "Clowns In Automobiles" would suit about as well.

"Clowns In Action" has been my usual reference phrase. The only people I ever worked with that made them look competent were some State Department weenies.

Amen, Brother!!!! Preach the Word!!

This is true.

[blackeagle603]

Old roomie from Navy days has had a good run of it with State techie. After EAOS, he took his Avionics rate to college for an EE and has spent intervening years globetrotting. Designs, sets up and maintains comm systems, up antenna towers periodically with SAPI plates. Wearb's a lot of kevlar at times. Like setting up comm's in Baghdad Green Zone in 2003, Kabul, funny named African places i can't spell yadda yadda. On a sad note, he was Sean Smith's roommate and supervisor in Baghdad where they brought up the State comm system.

A lot of prior service guys out there making it happen in odd places for State and 3 letter agencies, prepositioned for the military and other operations. Logisitics, transport, keeping the lights on and relationships open with locals for the odd moment we need to get gear and people in/thru some off the wall airstrip/terminal.