Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.co m!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539)]

In <1993Jul7.160845.20769@fcom.cc.utah.edu> tcrook@u.cc.utah.edu (Tom Crook) wr
ites:

>In article <1993Jul7.141538.23375@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.
gov (John Cobarruvias) writes:

>>Another example of logic on an acid trip. I can just see all the Desert
>>Storm Grunts trained in the use of an M16, Chemical warfare protection
>>use, offesive manuvers adapted to the desert, combat leadership skills,
>>XM1 tank use and maintenance, really concerned about how they will fit
>>into the software market place once they get out. Yep. Greg, you are once
>>again ate some bad mushrooms.

>In defense of Greg, who will probably never win a Mr. Congeniality award
>but who IMHO does occasionally raise some good points: Officers must have
>college degrees and at least in the Air Force, which I am familiar with,
>many of them have engineering or computer science degrees.  These people
>fit Greg's description quite well.

There are also quite a number of enlisted pukes who do programming.
John seems to make the mistake of thinking that the military is all
about basically brainless grunts in trenches.  I don't think that's
been so for several decades, at least.  It's a very technical military
these days, and some of them do software and are concerned about what
is marketable when they get out.  


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