Edited by author 06-20-2004 08:51 AM
What's the term used when troops shoot their own despised officers (or nco's, I guess).

Watching Band of Brothers Saturday reminded me of this practice. Don't know if they ever shot the guy, but he was certainly a candidate.

Wiley3333

You should try a DOD contract sometime: lots of boiler-plate and one-line references to entire Acts and regulatory bodies. Nobody can possibly know all that, or comply with it. Sign on the dotted line and deliver the goods is about the best you can do. Milspecs can be pretty terrible, too. Lots of grammar problems and unclear instructions abound or they may be hopelessly, technologically out of date or duplicative of other standards. Compound that with drawings that reference decade or more old or superceded specs and a pathological aversion to updating drawings and you have to be an archeologist/historian/engineer to get anything built right, including serious munitions.

Just be glad you're not reading the DOD guidelines for third-party contractors. I caught a glimpse of its (printed) size while serving time at Lockmart; it's huge. I mean, several phonebook volumes with tiny tiny print huge. This glossary is only a small part of the guide.

the acronym section is even better, acronyms defined with even bigger ones

My favorite has always been SIGINT, signal intelligence, bread and butter of the NSA and War Drivers/Walkers/Chalkers.

Makes perfect sense to me.