I have come up with another scenario. Cheap leadership or budget cuts due to the recession. Just imagine it. Your commander walks up to the company and begins the following speech...
"AAAAAAwwwwRIGHT MEN! Listen up!"
"You're country needs you and your vast expertise to valiantly travel to distant lands in order to protect our great nation's assets, interests, and arse end!"
"In exchange for your dangerous exploits which SHALL involve gunfire, (preferably with you on the right side of the gun, but seeing as they have guns too, you will probably be on the other end also), mines, deathtraps, starvation, heat exhaustion, bitter cold and frostbite, parasites and nasty diseases, prison camps, miles of marching, and an enemy that means to kill you before you kill them, for which you shall receive many a great compensation."
"What kind of compensation do I hear your tiny minds whispering in the shadowy corners of those blank slates you call brains?!!! ONLY the greatest our country can give in behalf of you risking your lives..."
(At this point the commander turns to the master sergeant in charge of the base commissary, (who, I might add, is snickering as he hands over the items to the commander), and holds up the mighty gifts that our country is willing to bestow in exchange for the possibility of our getting killed or maimed...)
"YOU men see this! Can you not believe how wondrous these items can be? I know when I was a lowly maggot like you men, I'd have chopped off my own left foot with a rusty toe nail trimmer to get such patriotic and generous rewards!"
(At this point you notice that the commander does indeed have a wooden left leg...)
"EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeIN exchange for this set of missions to piranha infested South America, we have a set of jumper cables!
For this set of missions you'll get... AWWWWWWWWWWWdio Video cables! Now who doesn't need audio video cables for their latest entertainment center needs???
For this set of missions to the middle east, your country has deigned to give you the complete set of Harlequin Romance novels, (you'll find them useful for extended missions away from those gals you're leaving behind).
And finally, for this mission to the far east, you get to adopt a child in a far away god forsaken country that is starving and in need of funds, (by sending $14.99 per month through this charity organization)."
"Now go get'em men! Your country depends on YOU!"
Is that what happened on those "Special Missions"? Budget cuts?
Last edited by Machiavelli; 06-16-2012 at 03:52 PM.
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