C3I

The title reflects a military acronym for command control communications and intelligence and today's post concerns one of the 'c's. LOL

I was reading this blogpost on a letter published on ST's forum page and couldn't stop chuckling to myself. Basically, the blogger is commenting about information from the army, or rather lack of communication from the army. What had happened was some parade (i assume POP?) where two recruits allegedly fainted on parade in full view of spectators and how the army would need to move quickly to tell the parents.

Maybe i'm old school, but i believe a certain level of operational security has to be maintained even if this means that information flow is slowed. Of course, information has to be forth coming in due course, and does not mean that bits and bites flow freely willy nilly. Terry Pratchett once wrote that "A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." (the Truth)

The expectation of the present "i want it here and now" generation in the digital age is quite scary and turning back to this incident, at this rate, the army will have to install an electronic billboard on parade squares (like those found at expressway entrances) that will flash the name of the unfortunate recruit who has just fainted. LOL