Good and Bad News

[SciFiFisher]

I had a plan for the remaining 3 years or so in the army reserve. Find a quiet out of the way place to slide quietly into the retired from the army life...

And then I got the email this morning telling me I have been selected to be the commander of a Medical Support Unit. In essence I will assume command of a battalion sized group in April 2015. Depending on the mission and the subordinate units I may be in charge of I will be the commander of approximately 300 to 600 reserve soldiers.

I have been alternating between OMG! and OMFG! all day.

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

[geonuc]

The Army is doomed ...


Wait, that's not what I meant. Congratulations, BatCom!

[Thumper]

^
Well, I can't think of a better choice.

[Swift]

Sir, yes sir!

Permission to celebrate Sir?!?

[pumpkinpi]

Here's your celebration.










is that last one appropriate?

[Sigma_Orionis]

Fisher, would you please stop impersonating Ike Eisenhower?

Oh BTW congrats

[geonuc]

Fisher, would you please stop impersonating Ike Eisenhower?

Oh BTW congrats

Better Ike than Patton.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Better Patton than MacArthur or Mark Clark

[SciFiFisher]

Sir, yes sir!

Permission to celebrate Sir?!?

Permission Granted!

[code monkey]

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

why does it matter? you made it!

is this another promotion? any terrific perks?

[SciFiFisher]

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

why does it matter? you made it!

is this another promotion? any terrific perks?

Not a promotion. More a position that goes with my current rank. The terrific perks include more responsibility, some authority, and I finally get my own staff team.

[brite]

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

why does it matter? you made it!

is this another promotion? any terrific perks?

Now he thinks he’s God....

[SciFiFisher]

I always fancied myself as more like Stonewall Jackson. Except for the part where he got shot by his own picket.

In the spring of 1851,[20] Jackson accepted a newly created teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), in Lexington, Virginia. He became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Instructor of Artillery. Parts of Jackson's curriculum are still taught at VMI, regarded as timeless military essentials: discipline, mobility, assessing the enemy's strength and intentions while attempting to conceal your own, and the efficiency of artillery combined with an infantry assault.

While he was eccentric in many ways he was also a gifted tactical commander.

[Swift]

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

why does it matter? you made it!

is this another promotion? any terrific perks?

Now he thinks he’s God....

"Well, I am king"
"Oh king, very nice. And how'd you become King... by exploiting the workers, by hanging onto outdated imperialist dogma..."

[brite]

Mind you. I feel like I am qualified for the job. But, a wee voice does wonder if I beat out the competition or if there was a lack of competition.

why does it matter? you made it!

is this another promotion? any terrific perks?

Now he thinks he’s God....

"Well, I am king"
"Oh king, very nice. And how'd you become King... by exploiting the workers, by hanging onto outdated imperialist dogma..."

You can’t be king just because some watery bint lobbed a sword at you....

[Swift]

Actually, I've thought for quite some time that strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, might actually be a fine basis for a system of government.

Certainly you would expect rigorous laws enforcing clean water and wetlands preservation.

[Sigma_Orionis]

I'm more of the school of "By this Axe I rule"

[cid]

...oh gawdz...I can see it now...

M*A*S*H FWIS

[Sigma_Orionis]

Fisher would do a good Colonel Potter

[Thumper]

Horse Hockey!

[Loresinger]

thumper I know what you meant by that but is it wrong that I just tried to picture horses playing hockey?

[Swift]

You can lead a horse to frozen water but you can't make him play hockey.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Horse Hockey? that would be Polo right?

[SciFiFisher]

So, it's official. This last week-end I assumed command of a nice little medical unit in Riverside CA. It's reserve duty only which means one week-end a month and the occasional 2 weeks of annual training. We had a nice little change of command ceremony. So much for reading the newspaper in a corner of the drill hall every month.

My first official order was to reaffirm the right of the army to torture people every 6 months in the form of a physical fitness test.

I don't have much in the way of pictures. Hard to take pictures and participate at the same time.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Let me guess, yer gonna make them ALL wear that silly yellow reflective belt too