Friday, May 13, 2016
Sexual Exercises
The text from Captain Ambrose
Hartaker to Captain Dolores Noler:
U locate troops wrong map sgmnt.
Back from her: Qwkly corrctd! On move!
Thanx Sir!
He to Lt Charley Hosk: “Parallel Parking
in War.”
She to Lt Eloise Nelson: “Honestly!
Such Assholes!”
Later to both Captains in conference call
from Operation High-Top War Games
Referee, Colonel Harley "Biff" Grimes:
"Your units captured, high rate of
dead and wounded!"
Upon his hanging up, to fellow ref,
Colonel Max Grady: "The women at
least LOOK better."
Max: “How many incompetents does
it take to lose a war?”
"Or win one?"
Labels: male and female soldiers, male-female competition, war games, women in army
Monday, March 14, 2011
The Game
“Mustn't just play. You've been chosen for this assignment
because you know how to play, but in these exercises,
the decisions are severe ones. That is, if you kill an
opponent on a screen, someone literally dies.
We have brought in populations of criminals or prisoners of
war, but one can't indiscriminately zap them. Laws.
So, killing is a last resort and it is expensive.
What can you do, in the game, to avoid it? That’s what we’re
learning here.
If you’re left with no choice, then you're left with no choice.
You must, of course, win, whatever the strategy.
We’re pointing towards more merciful war, but we don’t
want to become silly about it. Trivial.
And even though you sit in a chair, there will eventually
be military honors.”
Labels: modern war, war, war games
