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Funniest Logistician in the US Army
Working on a TAACOM staff teaches you that among experienced logisticians, there's an inescapable sense of gallows humor. You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. IMO this is an amusing yet inightful read.
Then we periodically, 90 percent of what was being done in Djibouti in 2007 was really on the, in the full spectrum scheme, it was really humanitarian aid. It was mil-to-mil training, that kind of stuff. There is about a ten percent kinetic piece. There were some SF guys, of some form, that would periodically disappear and then somebody else would disappear and they would come back. Supporting them was sometimes very interesting. I remember one request, they came to me, “I need as many non-tactical vehicles (NTVs) as you can give me.”
“When do you need them?”
“Tonight.”
“How many do you need?”
“Thirty.”
I had to go around the FOB and pull vehicles from people just so I could give them enough vehicles with no notice, so that they could do and do whatever they were going to do. It was probably a party down at the embassy. I don’t know. [Laughter]…
Richard 
The Funniest Logistician in the U.S. Army (So Far)
Time, 26 Feb 2013
http://nation.time.com/2013/02/26/th...#ixzz2QRrJYTvi
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