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On 12/5/13, 12:52 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:54:57 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 12/4/13, 3:39 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:39:10 -0500, Hank©
wrote:

On 12/4/2013 12:37 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:48:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I wonder why being universally taught how to think abstractly or
learning well established "critical thinking" skills in universities is
any different than what military schools offer.

If you haven't attended one, I guess you wouldn't k

Military schools are taught with a particular practical application in
mind. They want people who can analyse problems and fix them,
sometimes without the proper parts and possibly under a lot of
pressure. That is not a "theory" type skill.

I did see the two philosophies side by side. In the 70s IBM
experimented with hiring EEs because we could not find enough vets to
handle the system 360/370 surge.
It was a disaster. They may have been great in abstract thinking but
we wanted guys who could think about the problem in front of them, not
how we should have designed it,
Of the 4 we had, 2 were simply fired, one moved on to management and
the 4th went off to be a design engineer, where he was actually quite
effective. That is the guy I visited on my Colorado trip. (also the
guy with the Solar house in Manassas)

Some of those guys spend much too much time contemplating and not enough
time doing.

This was one of the smartest guys I know ... but he also did 4 in the
USAF after he went to college. That 1A you get the day you graduate
was a scary thing in the 60s.


Gee. You almost have me feeling bad for not doing more than supplying
change of addresses when appropriate to my local draft board. I could
have been drafted and sent to Vietnam to burn villages, women and
children. That would have been...so contemplative, eh?

This was the time of worrying about being in the Sargent Bilko army.
LBJ was recently elected and he promised we would not go to war.


The reality is that within a couple of days after inheriting the
presidency, Johnson made strong statements about stopping Communism in
SE Asia and well before the 1964 presidential elections had started
sending thousands of troops to Vietnam. There were about 18,000 US
troops there before the end of 1964 and a couple of hundred thousand by
the end of 1965. I was still getting my undergrad degree, and no one
thought we still had a "Sargent Bilko" army.

There was a massive buildup of troops during Johnson's tenure as president. After Nixon was
sworn in the number decreased rapidly.

http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwatl.htm

F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 12/3/13, 9:32 AM, True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 09:05:59 UTC-4, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 19:32:06 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:



On Monday, 2 December 2013 20:18:09 UTC-4, Califbill wrote:

True North wrote:













Isn't it nice that Uncle Sam keeps you in the lap of luxury with
taxpayer dollars.







Isn't it nice the taxpayers keep you in luxury?





No one keeps me in luxury..I worked for a living.



Good Morning, lil' Squirt!!



What did you do for your government? In what type 'work' were you
engaged? I'll bet your job was to

be as caustic and derogatory as possible.



How're those gonads coming? You've not displayed any by answering
questions on the topics you

brought up.



Honestly, sitting in your little house talking down to others who
are hundreds of miles away is not

'courageous'.



Bye, Squirt.



John H. -- Hope you're NOT having a great day!


You are an amusing old fart, Johnny.
You are the self assigned leader of talking down to others.
I'd bet it was due to your Lt Colonel rank in the army. You still
expect everyone to salute you.
Well, I will.. but only with one finger.



Half the lieutenant colonels in the Army who stayed in got promoted to
full colonel. Herring stayed in but got passed over for promotion,
probably for insulting one too many "soldier of color."


You are an amusing old fart, Johnny.
You are the self assigned leader of talking down to others.


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