[OldWarBaby]

-—speak for an hour? I guess I’ve been there and dunit. I warn folks that if you don’t want to hear the answer then don’t ask the question. I don’t know any short answers. Don’t do a “Cliff’s” version.

[LonePalm]

That's why it's so easy to speak for an hour and so damn hard to speak for five minutes.

When you only have five minutes you almost have to make every syllable count.

I was the Intel briefer for the Coast Guard Atlantic Fleet Commander for a worldwide JCS exercise. I stood up at 0800 (Intel goes first in the briefing chain) and did a 5 minute Intel brief +/- 30 seconds. And sat down. (See First Rule of Admirals)

I was in the office a 0500 to prepare for that brief. I only had to check the message lists and the watch log to get my data. The rest was deciding what order to present things.

I usually had 1-3 backup slides for every briefing slide and NEVER more than 6 briefing slides.

"No one ever won a war by doing PowerPoint slides for their country. They won it by making the other poor dumb son-of-a-bitch do PowerPoint slides for their country."

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)