I had completely forgotten what it was like to be in the military. These 3 weeks, I'm back in-camp doing reservist training and I missed that good feel and friendship with some friends and former army buddies I haven't seen in a really, really long time!
There are so many things I had to catch up on, but the most important thing I enjoyed was the ideas behind ops planning. In the real world, whenever we plan for something at work, nobody seems to know the meaning of a worse-case scenario. Nobody knows, or nobody cares.
A worse-case scenario is planned such that if anything goes wrong, there are redundancies set in place to ensure that things will still run smoothly and accounted for. Nobody at work believes in a worse-case scenario, they think it will never happen, but stupidity dictates that we plan for it, because at the end of the day, when the situation goes south, blame will be placed on everyone. This is the precise reason why a worse-case scenario is planned, for something that will never happen, but used as a safety net in the event that it does. The low probability of it happening doesn't it it will not happen at all.
It's so strange that anyone will say it's enjoyable going back to camp and doing reservist. There are some truths to that, but most importantly, it is a good break away from all the stupidity and office politics, to get away from all those waste-of-time meetings that seem to go nowhere and of course, the pesky answering of all those useless emails.
Then again, we know Murphy's Second Corollary:
God, I miss the cold war...
There are so many things I had to catch up on, but the most important thing I enjoyed was the ideas behind ops planning. In the real world, whenever we plan for something at work, nobody seems to know the meaning of a worse-case scenario. Nobody knows, or nobody cares.
A worse-case scenario is planned such that if anything goes wrong, there are redundancies set in place to ensure that things will still run smoothly and accounted for. Nobody at work believes in a worse-case scenario, they think it will never happen, but stupidity dictates that we plan for it, because at the end of the day, when the situation goes south, blame will be placed on everyone. This is the precise reason why a worse-case scenario is planned, for something that will never happen, but used as a safety net in the event that it does. The low probability of it happening doesn't it it will not happen at all.
It's so strange that anyone will say it's enjoyable going back to camp and doing reservist. There are some truths to that, but most importantly, it is a good break away from all the stupidity and office politics, to get away from all those waste-of-time meetings that seem to go nowhere and of course, the pesky answering of all those useless emails.
Then again, we know Murphy's Second Corollary:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious!
God, I miss the cold war...
