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Old 06-25-2008, 16:25   #36
jatx
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Texas
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Originally Posted by stuW View Post
I can only translate your messages based on my experience (essentially none – I’m 23) and education. I am, however, trying my best to keep up with you and actually understand it, so I can recall and use it if I am fortunate enough to make it through OCS and become an MI officer in the army.

Stu
If you want to add any value at all in MI, you need to learn how to communicate effectively. You sound like a John Cleese parody of an Oxbridge professor after an all-night drinking binge.

Here's a lesson:

1) Learn to listen. This means more than simply waiting to talk.

2) Compose your message, then reduce the character count by 50% before hitting send.

3) Rinse and repeat.
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