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DoD Gobbledygook

by: cvllelaw

Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 01:15:19 AM EDT


From a Department of Defense manual:
If the document has no front cover, the first page will be the front page.  If it has a cover, the first page is defined as the first page you see when you open the cover.  In some documents, the title page and the first page may be the same.
I can't figure out what could possibly require this exegesis.
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No veteran would find this surprising in the least. (0.00 / 0)
I think this odd way of communicating began with George Washington and the Continental Army and has been getting progressively worse ever since. The old saw about there being three ways to do anything, the right way, the wrong way and the Army way is painfully true. And contemplating the Army way can often put you in danger of having your head explode.

I got married when I was a young soldier (a very long time ago)and can still remember taking my new wife around post to get her dependent ID and do all the stuff one must do when one acquries a dependent in the military. I will never forget what she said at the end of the experience. She said, "Does the Army really work this way?".

Reading the snippet you posted above it is easy to wonder how anything is accomplished by an organization that could write such gobbledygook. I think it is often a case of success being accomplished in spite of the organization rather than because of it.


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