The Worst Mistake an Officer can Make and the Thermonuclear Microwave

Do you know the worst mistake an officer can make? It's when they think (subconsciously) believe they are better than us blue shirts. When they think of us as the "mob" and incapable of making decisions because we are too unintelligent, illiterate, and uneducated to understand what is happening. Not to mention unwashed because we are always sweaty and covered in grease and dirt. I’m like, "dude, when you were growing up, you never had to be aware of gang territory, did you?"

If they are ever like that, it doesn't take long for them to get a rude awakening by a chief or superior officer, and the next time you see them they are a shade paler and cooler. That is rare anyway and it is usually young people still learning the ropes of life in general because they haven't ever been "outside", and its fine. No hard feelings. You shouldn't be comfortable with the "outside" normally, and it's not necessary to be. It's also understandable why young people make those mistakes if they lack proper respect for what is out there when they've never experienced anything like it or properly informed.

Only very rarely, and I mean extremely rarely, does a person encounter stuff like that in normal everyday life "inside the walls" of civilization. Especially in modern, urban nations where getting "outside" is a lot trickier than just wandering into the forest. Aside from that, there is no such thing as unquestionable obedience in the USA military.

I've seen enough times when an officer gives "orders" and a chief straight up be like, "No. That is not happening." Or something like that in their own way. Then either they explain right then and there why it's not going to work or is a waste of time, or they do it later in private with other senior leaders. It's not done to insult them, humiliate them, or take their authority. It's usually because the officer doesn't understand the technical details of the equipment as it pertains to a unique situation that is infrequent but currently relevant and the officer is still relatively junior in their post.

It takes a long time to learn everything in complicated systematic organizations like a military command, and there can be a lot of stress at any moment. The explanation may be something like, "Sir, we cannot do that because when we bring the equipment for that out and set it up, it is like a propane grill fucked the cross of Christ on the Fourth of July during the fireworks and shat out a thermonuclear microwave. It is bulky, awkward, and requires two people.

“Since we are doing that other thing that Mr. So and So needs for the Bombast Balasalsa we have one person there and another there with someone else here while I go sip coffee and watch Americas Funniest Home Videos in the Goat Lounge. If we tried to do that other thing in the middle of the process at the part that requires us to wait two hours, but we wouldn't be able to put in all the semen samples to access the crypt keeper because he has a girlfriend, he has a boyfriend, and Pissed Off 3rd Class Morgan is topside on watch right now, besides, she doesn’t even make semen with her girl parts.

“No, they can't do it while that is still happening, because ever since that casualty occurred on the BSS Donkey Sack and that dude got hurt, there is a new instruction for Dank Div called number number dot letter number requiring all those people and some toilet paper. Did you not get that message and read the addendum? The one about section number number dot number letter in tech pub Up Yo Ass N Rnd the Corner? It went to your inbox along with the hundreds of others that I see come through every day. Yes, that one. Listen, I'm not saying it can't be done. Let me offer a recommendation that would work better."

My point!? My point!? I don't know, maybe it's that when the people who actually work get a fucked-up order that will get their people killed; not to mention fuck over the entire command when the eye of Sauron falls upon them and they lose their cush liberty because suddenly they are too busy jumping through inspection hoops and performing rites of orderly stick assing and nobody is allowed to go home; and get the one who gave the order court martialed and the one who carried it out Masted with a Bunyon Timber log from them old growth trees that don't grow anymore because they all got cut down, which could mean seriously docked pay and a demotion, they do not carry it out. They tell them: "No."

They have a wife and kids to feed. Bills to pay. That kind of thing. Can't afford to be doing stupid shit like that for numbnuts politicians trying to hide crime so they can get away with murder while at the same time keeping the bills of the people who actually work so high that they barely have enough to pay them because all the excess is paying for the murderer's personal grape feeders. Someone is going to rebuke that evil shit if it hasn't happened already because it was a turd of mass destruction sent rolling down from the top of the pyramid, and that ain't worth anybody dying for.