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Originally Posted by Webstral
Bloat certainly happens. I think the place to worry about it, though, is in the staff and services areas.
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Joe Haldeman has a good example of this in the
Forever War. Mandella was meeting some of his new troops in an auditorium:
Officer: "My name is Lieutenant Hilleboe and I am your Second Field Officer."
Mandella, thinking: That used to be "Field First Sergeant." A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
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War is the absence of reason. But then, life often demands unreasonable responses. -
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