.Military's Iraqi Culture Smart Card- Boredom breaker
"If you've never been in a military classroom, you've never experienced that delicate combination of boredom and fear perfected by the United States military over 232 years.
Those classes would torture any normal human (Where's the ACLU when you need them?), but for somebody suffering from a severe, non-diagnosed (not that they'd care) case of attention deficit syndrome, like myself, Army engineering classes required a mental gymnasticism worthy of Shawn Johnson to keep me from passing out.
Like I couldn't do that.
Anyways, one day the Army made the mistake of handing out something semi-interesting, this "Smart Card," written first for the Marines and then used by the Army (the Navy one included the phrase, "Hey..." OK, no Navy jokes.) and called the "Guide for Cultural Awareness." I took it out at around the 100th power point slide of one particular lecture and read it for the rest of the day.
It was fun. During breaks, I'd put together phrases and say them to the Arabic-speaking students from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Aala kay-fek, in-baT-ah, "Calm down and lie on your stomach" (Army humor isn't very sophisticated.). I think it's unclassified. If it's not, I'll find out soon, I suppose. You can download it here. or just scroll down."
Asymmetric Military
Those classes would torture any normal human (Where's the ACLU when you need them?), but for somebody suffering from a severe, non-diagnosed (not that they'd care) case of attention deficit syndrome, like myself, Army engineering classes required a mental gymnasticism worthy of Shawn Johnson to keep me from passing out.
Like I couldn't do that.
Anyways, one day the Army made the mistake of handing out something semi-interesting, this "Smart Card," written first for the Marines and then used by the Army (the Navy one included the phrase, "Hey..." OK, no Navy jokes.) and called the "Guide for Cultural Awareness." I took it out at around the 100th power point slide of one particular lecture and read it for the rest of the day.
It was fun. During breaks, I'd put together phrases and say them to the Arabic-speaking students from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Aala kay-fek, in-baT-ah, "Calm down and lie on your stomach" (Army humor isn't very sophisticated.). I think it's unclassified. If it's not, I'll find out soon, I suppose. You can download it here. or just scroll down."
Asymmetric Military
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