Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
Given my recent experience in getting to the sand box, we have much work to do in terms of streamlining processes as well as team building. I told my guys that as a child in the south of the 1950s and an Africanist of the 89s and 90s I was hopeful that apartheid, separate but equal, and similar systems were in decline. They are not; they have a new variant between military and civilian. The system seems damned determine to drive as many wedges between the 2 as possible.

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Having deployed both as military and as a civilian, this, IMHO, is one of the MAJOR problems with the system. Now that I am back here as military on a ETT I have made an effort to build a "Coalition of the Willing".