Called in the military/winter storm

[Dead Horse]

Gee they get to play with guns and cannons and all manner of things that go BOOM, but not something that virtually every farmer or person that heats with wood uses after reading the manual that came with the saw. Makes yuh kinda wonder.

Just hope that we are never attacked by beavers, cuz like then we are so screwed.

Hope you dig out ok.

Chainsaws come wif manuals??!!?? Who knew!



FWIW, I read the military comment as being focused on red tape, bs, and bureaucracy, not at the young people. I have many military friends, both young and old. I am also hypersensitive to abuse or misplaced criticizm of these folks.....and I gotta say, I just did not see that in the post.

In fact I have plenty of friends just fresh off of the international expolits we are involved with, and much like Vietnam, it would seem that politics and military might make for a very poor marriage.

God bless all our fighting men and women.......... from BOTH countries.

 

[newbury]

Actually I think the military comment is accurate from his point of view.

I've only been working in the US Army Corps of Engineers since 'Nam.

And it's the Engineers who usually get's the saws

http://vko.va.ngb.army.mil/Virginia.../VirginiaGuard/news/may10/157thEngineers.html

and

There are two types of chains of command I've found in the last 36 years -
1. Ask questions - get answers and approval - get the job done
2. Get the job done, ask for forgiveness

The first type proceed routinely up the promotion ladder. In a major crisis they are the type that the CPT/Commander would arrive, start a study of the situation and get the crisis solved by midsummer with minimum political damage.

The second type, the type I've been lucky to work with at times, arrives, deploys men and equipment and has the crisis in control before the first type decides on the TOC site.

And I don't know about Canada but in the US the Army is NOT supposed to get involved in stateside disaster relief until explicitly requested/ordered.

Some of the disasters etc. I've been involved with we had to show up to do "research and training", and coincidentally solve a lot of problems before we got official ok to do so. Sometimes supervisors of the first type were able to get us reprimanded.

The guys I work with would show up, buy chainsaws and PPE, get the job done and get reprimanded.