Quote Originally Posted by TheCurmudgeon View Post
Someday I am going to have to do look at why military people remember the miserable and chose to share it so often. I know of no other group that enjoys talking about all the things that go wrong as much as the military do (maybe the police).
Given your Avatar I'd assume you're a soldier or cop I'd have to say that NGOs and Rescue bitch far more and love "it" when it sucks ! Maslow would have us embracing mistakes in the hopes of being rewarded with some happiness myth - he obviously never served in the Army

Quote Originally Posted by TheCurmudgeon View Post
BTW, I have visions of Solders trying to place two pallets of six volt batteries end to end to get the power they needed.
Since we needed at least 110kw (parralleled 60s) of AC the batteries were no good and ended up on the black market. The ammo would have at least sounded threatening, but we didn't have a weapon for belt-fed ammunition