[pabianice]

You are correct, sir! WHEN WILL THE WHITE HOUSE GET A CLUE AND FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS INTELLIGENTLY??? "Not observed" is a standard eval catagory for a reservist who does resched drills and thus is not at enough regularly scheduled drills for purposes of a FITREP.

THE WHITE HOUSE IS GOING TO BLOW THIS ELECTION BY BEING TOO PASSIVE. "HELLO? HELLO? ANYONE HOME, MCFLY?"

[Quilla]

I miss Ari!

[hotpotato]

WHEN WILL THE WHITE HOUSE GET A CLUE AND FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS INTELLIGENTLY?

They need to do it soon! McClellan spent *twenty* minutes saying the same thing over and over and making the same claim repeatedly doesn't improve legitimacy. It was a terrible performance.

This is why I LOVE Rumsfeld! You'll never see him allow the press to abuse him like that.

[Delphinium]

WHEN WILL THE WHITE HOUSE GET A CLUE AND FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS INTELLIGENTLY???

I agree that guys isn't very good at this.

[xzins]

The good news is that he didn't try to make something up.

Hopefully, they will research this and come up with the right answer.

We each need to send them an email. It's a CATEGORY of evaluation: NOT OBSERVED (in other words - we didn't watch him for purposes of evaluation; in this reason, as you say, because he was on such a status as to preclude their "observing" him.)

[xzins]

One other thing:

On an efficiency report/fitrep, the wording "not observed" means "not evaluated."

If he had been awol, they sure as heck would have written about that at length. They wouldn't have meekly said, "Not observed" if they meant "Awol."

They would have nailed any AWOL officer to the wall with their words. Probably something like, "This officer failed to report for duty during this period we supervised him and was AWOL. We recommend the immediate termination of this dirtbag with a less than honorable discharge!"

They don't pussyfoot around with awol officers.