[Drumbo]

Thanks!
My favorite quote from Glory Road:

'Major Ian Hay, back in the "War to End War," described the structure of military organizations: Regardless of the T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department.' - Oscar "E.C." Gordon, Glory Road, (Robert A. Heinlein)

RAH was the master. RIP H

[Swordmaker]

Here is the complete quotation, Drumbo. Some whe have not read Heinlein might appreciate it.

Regardless of T.O. [Table of Organization], all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department. The first two process most matters as the third is very small; the Fairy Godmother Department is one elderly female G-5 clerk usually out on sick-leave.

Robert A. Heinlein

[Right Winged American]

My favorite quote from Glory Road:

'Major Ian Hay, back in the "War to End War," described the structure of military organizations: Regardless of the T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department.'

You left out the most important part of that quote, which went INAIR "The Fariy Godmother cosistes of an elderly lady GS-9, who occasionally puts down her knitting, picks up a paper crossing her desk, and does something nice!"

God, how true that is!