"I wanna be a Chairborne Ranger..."
Posted on 09/01/2010 3:51:30 PM PDT by billorites
ROTFLMAO!!!
When I was working with the Army to prep a briefing for the General, I had to prepare a couple of climate slides. I asked when they had to be done, and was asked; “Can you have them by close of business tomorrow?” They take about 30 minutes to prepare. I said; “I'm going to lunch. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon.” About 4 hours before the briefing, I had one more slide that I wanted to add. It was rejected because they didn't have enough time to get it in. Four hours???
With my USAF briefings, I used to walk into the Command Post with a disc containing my slides just minutes before I was to go on stage. Never a problem. The Army would spend days preparing a briefing for a General, and it would take an unbelievable number of people to produce it.
Awesome! I laughed so hard my kids came running to see what I was looking at.
That is great!
Army colonel in Afghanistan fired for criticizing PowerPointPowerPoint is the tool. The "cognitively challenged generals" are what he's criticizing."war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information."
That colonel should be given a freakin’ medal. He was so on-target there should have been collateral damage. There’s a bunch of brain-dead politicians at the top who stopped being soldiers long ago making decisions based on endless PowerPoint presentations prepared by semi-literate yes-men and their flunkies.
With the Air Force...I can update the slides on the COP and they access it in the brief. I can make a change before I walk in...with the Army...I was sending in slides at 0100 for a 0800 briefing (3 Star brief). We had a 0400 "practice" and a 0530 shift-change...which was another "practice/scrub."
Happens all the time. Most unbelievable waste of time I've ever seen. They put ALL the slides together so you get this monstrous 100 slide PPT presentation that is something like 80 mb. There is one guy doing it. Single point failure.
Bring back my vis-a-vis!
What a sacrifice you are making, supporting the Army. Oh, the humanity!
The best thing that ever happened to the Air Force is the fact that it's hardly 65 years old.
"Flexibility is the key to air power" would imply something very different had the USAF been obliged to confront the Barbary Pirates 200 years ago.
Also AF weather, and was Army support for my last 16 years. Twenty-four years? Oh the humanity!
On field exercises, we would spend a lot of time trying to figure out pranks to pull on the Army...without them realizing it. We were usually successful.
Command Post types are flexible by nature!!
need I say a ‘powerful point’?
LOL...after I posted and re-read it, that was my thought as well.
This is so true.
I remember one morning in '08, when three of us (two military and myself) were over at the Iraq Ministry of Interior working some urgent issue, one of the senior guys from the rear called our Colonel's cell phone freaking out that he couldn't get any of us on the DSN line in our office.
When our COL told this guy that we were dealing with an urgent situation at the MoI, the guy sputtered...."But....but, I need a slide from your section (about blah-blah-blah...)!"
We all laughed. Somewhat derisively. And then our COL told this guy "Well then, you'd better get started on it."
There have been far more PowerPoint slides created in this war than there have been bullets fired.
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