Black Humour - Military Initiative

How things are expected to work today A soldier sees a terrorist firing at him and closing in : 1. Soldier would request Section Commander for permission to fire 2. Sec Cdr would ask Platoon Cdr who in turn would seek permission from Coy Cdr who would then ask the Bn Cdr 3. Bn Cdr would seek instructions from Bde Cdr who would call up the Div Cdr who in turn would ask his Col GS to give him a power point presentation 4. The Col GS would ask his staff to prepare a power point presentation to be shown to the Div Cdr 5. The slide show would then be sent back for revisions and after 18 revisions a yellow sticky note shall be put on it with the word ‘approved’ 6. Now convinced, the Div Cdr would seek permission from the Corps Cdr to fire who would in turn ask him to send him a print out of the slide show through fax because he doesn’t have email 7. The GS Branch of the Div would send a fax to the Corps who would ask the GS Branch to send it through courier since it got faxed to the wrong number 8. The Capt who sent out the fax would get a bad ACR because he should have known that the fax number given to him by a Col at the Corp HQ was not correct 9. The Corps Cdr would confirm from the JAG Branch whether firing back would constitute a human rights violation 10. After getting the legal advice, the Corps Cdr would inform the Army Cdr just to be on the safer side 11. The Army Cdr would ask the Corp Cdr to send him whatever info he has on the subject 12. The Army Cdr would never get the information 13. The Div is again notified that the info should be sent to the Corps with a copy to the Div and to the Army HQ 14. The Army Cdr receives the info but says that he should also inform the Chief. On the other hand the DGMO calls up the Div Cdr and asks him why some dumb Capt had been faxing him 152 pages of slide print outs without any reason 15. The Capt sending out the fax who was expecting an AR tenure in staff gets posted to RR 16. The Chief says that the Navy and Air Force should also be informed since they should be an integral part of any decision that may be taken 17. The Navy and Air Force protest that they should be kept in the loop and atleast two fighter aircraft and some MARCOS should back up the soldier who had sought permission to fire, the Army agrees for the recommended jointsmanship 18. The elite Spl Forces backed by MARCOS and two jets of the Air Force are sent to the location where they find a decomposed body of a soldier with the wireless handset still held near his ear as if waiting for a response from someone for whatever question he may have asked