Been turning something over in my head -
something that Smash said last week, after we'd met for the first time (in meatspace,
anway) in front of MCAS Miramar. He wrote that I "... may be the highest ranking
active duty milblogger." You know that might well be true - I don't know of
anyone senior to me. But what's the significance of this?
Well first, let me point out that I
think that Chap might well be onto something here:
"Milbloggers
have had a warfighting effect. They’re our true “strategic
warriors” in this fight in countering information warfare fires designed
to sap our national will."
Taken
together, these two statements tend to throw me into a position of
responsibility - seniority is very important in the services. In fact, during
the Vietnam war, POW's quickly determined who was the senior officer, and then,
regardless of his service branch, afforded him the authority to set the prisoner
resistance policy. Senior POW's like James Stockdale took that responsibility
very seriously indeed, in spite of the fact that his captors treated him with
special brutality.
And this is a
responsibility I cannot shirk. So based on the responsibility, authority and
privilege conferred upon me by my seniority, I've decided to set some policy -
after all, rank has its responsibilities:
General Order Number 1: Henceforth, seniority
among milbloggers is meaningless, null and without effect. This will be instead
a true democratic meritocracy outside the sphere of our military lives. We're
having fun here, as well as providing a different kind of service, on top of
that to which we are already sworn.
Nothing in the foregoing is meant to
abrogate the usual courtesies which should obtain between members of the various
services or within the separate services, however. Love one another and be
polite, in other words. Just like momma taught
you.
General Order Number 2: OPSEC -
live it, so that others might not die by our
indiscipline.
General Order Number 3:
Notwithstanding GO #1, I'd still sort of like that up-front parking space at the
milblogger commissary, when and if one ever comes
along.
General Order Number 4: The
O'Club, too.
Hey - rank also has
it's privileges!
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