Kevin O’Brien Part of the deal with Yanukovych (the one from last Friday, that Y. immediately broke) was that the protesters would turn in their weapons. Apparently, Y’s guys flipped sides before that ever happened. No one seems to be taking gun confiscation all that seriously. Unlike, say, Connecticut, where State Police brass is itching for some …
Probably the most critical task in any organization is personnel selection and assessment. High-functioning organizations have formal selection gates that select personnel who will be able to perform at the desired level, and ongoing assessment procedures that will, among other things, identify nonperformers and separate them. Of course, we’re thinking of special operations units, but …
We’ve heard a bit about our criticism of Tarek Hassani, the cowardly cop who, by his own admission, was so pissing-himself terrified of a barking black lab that he had to shoot the dog to get control of himself. Sure, that’s optimal police work. The fact is, anybody can fight a dog and win. Dogs …
RIP, Chuck Schantag This is in the phony category, but there was nothing phony about Chuck. Instead he, and his wife Mary, were the indispensable catalogers of the military phonies of America. Chuck passed away on February 23, of a massive heart attack, while out shooting. (If one has to go…). Life Flight medics were …
…and they’re here to help… somebody. Mostly their own employees, managers and contractors. If they help any veterans, well, they’ll crow about it — but it’s incidental to their perception of their mission. They didn’t do veterans any good with this: On Friday, 17 January 2014, there was a breach of the eBenefits website that …
Ladies and gents, the good news is, last week (no doubt thanks to our plug here) the touching and clever comedy Enlisted, set on a stateside Army post while most of the troops are deployed, had its best ratings week — over 3 million viewers. That sounds great, and the fact that the show’s up week overt …
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. As Albert Schweitzer said (according to some quote site on the internet — what, you think we hung out with Albert Schweitzer? We SF guys think “humanitarian” is Latin for “cannibal.”) But anyway, our soul and yours …
The idea was, the big-time contractor was going to build a Legion Hall for American Legion Post 58 in Southern Maine. And he was such a great guy, he was going to raise money for them, too. He just needed a little seed money to cover his startup expenses. Give him that, and he could …
If you’re like us, you realize that most internet ads are worthless. The more intrusive and repetitive the ad, the more certain it is that it’s a scam — some work-from-home fraud or bogus insurance deal, or some ripoff operation that wants to charge you money to get you FREE MONEY FROM OBAMA!!!. So we …
One Hundred Thousand is a lot of anything. It’s enough cash to buy a Porsche, put a down payment on a house, or buy enough ammunition for a while. It was for many decades the senior-citizen age for automobiles, 100,000 miles, unless you owned a Volvo, which are like some Middle Earth race invented by …