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    Oh crap, don't tell me Mike Sparks has recruited some disciples to espouse his "Gospel of Gavin"... I felt much safer when I thought that he was isolated and alone.
    When I die, I want my last words to have been "Hold my beer and watch this."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildcat View Post
    Oh crap, don't tell me Mike Sparks has recruited some disciples to espouse his "Gospel of Gavin"... I felt much safer when I thought that he was isolated and alone.
    OK I won't tell you......but try to google military reform ,or heck, even military and see how many Sparky pages come up. My introduction to military forum communication was el' Sparky and still have some poor communication skills I learned there. Nearly as bad are the news groups. In fact there are alot of high noise to content "military" forums out there. Praise the moderators and your co-contributers for the sane wonderfulness that is SWJ.
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    The Internet is a good thing, but mostly it is a bad thing, as the Sparks thing demonstrates.
    He cloaked himself in a veil of impenetrable terminology.

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    The internet is pretty much a neutral thing that can be used for either good or evil. We lean more toward the good here, and leave the other for the Sparkies of the world. But it does allow those sad and alone types to find other sads and alones and form bonds of a sort that we'd best not explore too deeply....
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    As a 2LT, I had a crusty, old SFC tell me he thought that “the Army, as a whole, is like a guy that just keeps punching himself in the balls over and over for no reason.” Maybe he was wiser than I thought.
    Heh, while we are off-topic, I have to thank you for that quote, Steve (and JKM_101_FSO).

    I end up using it on at least a twice-weekly basis - it's just so... accurate...

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