"I wanna be a Chairborne Ranger..."
Death by PowerPoint is government-wide, not just in Afghanistan.
I heard the rant on the radio the other day. He would make a good freeper.
“Next slide, please!”
He went out with a bang - on his feet, not on his knees. Big props to Col. Sellin. I’ll take a warrior who speaks the truth over a resume polisher any day.
Well, I think better of him because he wasn’t stupid. He knew full well what his opinion (and the way he worded it) meant for him.
I give him credit for trying to make a point.
Somehow I don’t think that he was fired for criticizing a Microsoft product. He was fired for publically criticizing the military organization that he worked for. That will usually get you fired no matter who you work for.
A sentence demonstrating that Sellin is an idiot.
I am “aware”, shall we say, of a very nice Powerpoint presentation - an after action report of the ambush where my son and three others were killed and several wounded in Iraq. Arrows pointing to the bad guy positions and the mosque, aerial photos, the works.
- General James N. Mattis, USMC
He was just confirmed as head of Central Command.
ROTFLMAO!!!
When I was working with the Army to prep a briefing for the General, I had to prepare a couple of climate slides. I asked when they had to be done, and was asked; “Can you have them by close of business tomorrow?” They take about 30 minutes to prepare. I said; “I'm going to lunch. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon.” About 4 hours before the briefing, I had one more slide that I wanted to add. It was rejected because they didn't have enough time to get it in. Four hours???
With my USAF briefings, I used to walk into the Command Post with a disc containing my slides just minutes before I was to go on stage. Never a problem. The Army would spend days preparing a briefing for a General, and it would take an unbelievable number of people to produce it.
Army colonel in Afghanistan fired for criticizing PowerPointPowerPoint is the tool. The "cognitively challenged generals" are what he's criticizing."war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information."
That colonel should be given a freakin’ medal. He was so on-target there should have been collateral damage. There’s a bunch of brain-dead politicians at the top who stopped being soldiers long ago making decisions based on endless PowerPoint presentations prepared by semi-literate yes-men and their flunkies.
This is so true.
I remember one morning in '08, when three of us (two military and myself) were over at the Iraq Ministry of Interior working some urgent issue, one of the senior guys from the rear called our Colonel's cell phone freaking out that he couldn't get any of us on the DSN line in our office.
When our COL told this guy that we were dealing with an urgent situation at the MoI, the guy sputtered...."But....but, I need a slide from your section (about blah-blah-blah...)!"
We all laughed. Somewhat derisively. And then our COL told this guy "Well then, you'd better get started on it."
There have been far more PowerPoint slides created in this war than there have been bullets fired.