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Contained herein are the random travels of an Army officer. I'm assigned to the Special Troops Battalion of the 1st Sustainment Brigade (formerly the 1st Infantry Division Support Command or DISCOM). I have an MS in Logistics Management ('03 Florida Tech) and have earned the title of Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) from the International Society of Logistics. I'm married to a wonderful woman and blessed with fraternal twin daughters and a son.

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I'm a mild-mannered logistician by day and an evil libertarian by night.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Carlin Classic

I've always enjoyed the humor of George Carlin.

Think for a moment about the concept of the flamethrower. Okay? The flamethrower. Because we have them. Well, *we* don't have them, the Army has them. That's right. We don't have any flamethrowers. I'd say we're fucked if we have to go up against the Army, wouldn't you? But we have flamethrowers. And what this indicates to me, it means that at some point, some person said to himself, "Gee, I sure would like to set those people on fire over there. But I'm way to far away to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw flame on them."

Well, it might have ended right there, but he mentioned it to his friend. His friend who was good with tools. And about a month later, he was back. "Hey, quite a concept!" WHHOOOOOOOOSSHHH! And of course the Army heard about it, and they came around.

"We'd like to buy about five hundred-thousand of them please. We have some people we'd like to throw flame on. Give us five hundred thousand and paint them dark brown. We don't want anyone to see them."