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[at-l] OT- Fun Site
At 08:48 AM 1/12/2005 -0800, Paul Magnanti wrote:
>--- Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > I spent 75% of my 3 years in my chosen MOS. I knew
> > guys who enlisted to go
> > to (fill in a country), went there and stayed only a
> > few weeks/months
> > before being reassigned to Vietnam. Only the Army
>
>Hey..just thought of something. Read yesterday in Time
>MAgazine (or was it CNN online?) how the army is
>thinking of re-training in-house army accountants,
>cooks, etc. to be infantry/logistics and out-sourcing
>these other positions. Seems somewhat similar to the
>late 60s/early 70s.
>
>The manpower crunch is indeed bad right now for some
>positions.
Yes, I served under 2 civilian 'commanders', one of whom was in a position
that would have been a Captain had he been military, the other had
responsibilities equivalent to a Colonel. Both were
administrative/management positions. The Signal Corps School also had
several civilian instructors and I know that many stateside motor-pools had
civilian mechanics. Unlike today though, where whole areas of support are
being farmed out to corporations, those guys were civil servants employed
directly by the Army and (as far as I know) it was only done stateside, not
in 'Nam.
>Glad I have the oppurtunity to enjoy the outdoors and
>my generation did not really have the spectre of full
>scale war on them. My youngesy brother and others
>though....
Maybe you are the real "Lucky Generation". ;D