Posted on 07/31/2025 9:00:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
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)
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>>The New Europeans<<
How long before we have to blow them all up again?
“I love this granular explanation. Not “too long” for me. Thanks.”
“I don’t want to waste all y’all’s time and I sure as hell don’t want to annoy people.”
LP, please don’t worry about the length of your posts.
On my mouse (and most mouses - mice???) - there is this wheel in the middle that when you spin it, you can go from where you are to somewhere else. If someone gets bored with the very interesting information you provide, they have the means to use that.
Oh yeah, most keyboards also have this key labeled “Page Down” (or some such iteration of that) which will also take them somewhere else.
The West Taiwan information you provide is interesting and important to many of us - we’d rather have more than less. If we get bored (unlikely) we have the means to move on.
Thanks for the Broken China updates - you provide an informed perspective not found elsewhere.
Steven Cheung......
Assistant to the President & White House Director of Communications.
Personal:
@StevenCheung
Elsewhere on the 'net, people are laughing at the new name. We knew it was bad at MSDNC, but not this bad.
The logo, looks like a "K".
When paired with the MS, it looks like KMS, which, in today's parlance, is short for "Kill My Self".
MarQ4
Z-Man gets the thumb!
-—Reminding me of a class I was giving to a room full of Navy types, yard birds, sailors, officers, etc. about the changes we were making to a ship system. One of the changes involved a piece of gear that required a specially designed operator tool that would fit nothing else. I referred to it as “sailor proof” and a Commander got snippy about my reference. So I went into more detail and he never bothered me again.
Turned out nobody wanted a short explanation when it came to operating a ship they were going to bet their skins on——deep. Taking on the job of “explainer” turned out to be sort of a license to steal. Not many could or would do it and they just left me alone.
LOL!
Talked to a doctor the other day, she said she had a patient who had over 20,000 spike proteins in her blood.
She should get this.
Ultimate Spike Detox– The Wellness Company
She also said a lot of patients coming in have nicotine patches on.
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