From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jul 93 15:27:12 GMT From: 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) Subject: Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada Message-ID: <1993Jul8.152712.28480@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: 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. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.