No 'pology necessary, and since you learned something it was no waste of time or thought for either of us.
And making holes in things with sharp pointy objects and/or fast moving projectiles remains an important part of the job, and neither the old hard fast basics nor the latest theories, techniques and doctrines thereof should be overlooked. But that is no longer the only part of the job, and more and more, the new applications are becoming a really important part of it as well.
Sharp pointy objects, circa 1914:
The great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen,
And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine to brute machine,
But still in the end when the long lines bend and the battle hangs in doubt
They take to the steel in the same old way that their fathers fought it out --
It is man to man and breast to breast and eye to bloodshot eye
And the reach and twist of the thrusting wrist, as it was in the days gone by!
Along the shaken hills the guns their drumming thunder roll --
But the keen blades thrill with the lust to kill that leaps from the slayer's soul!
For hand and heart and living steel, one pulse of hate they feel.
Is your clan afraid of the naked blade? Does it flinch from the bitter steel?
Perish your dreams of conquest then, your swollen hopes and bold,
For empire dwells with the stabbing blade, as it did in the days of old!
--Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Dreams and Dust
First, thank you for posting that ... his verse rings like that of Kipling. I had not previously heard of him. Through the magic of Project Gutenberg I found many of his works. I’ll be loading some of that on my Kindle.
Secondly, the work is apparently titled (appropriately) “The Bayonet”. It speaks a timeless truth.
Finally ... is your namesake a cockroach?