Your commanding officer wants you to crank out a whole bunch of propaganda in a hurry. But you’re miles and miles from your base. And Kinko’s isn’t expected to open a branch in the Hindu Kush for a long, long time. What to do?
SOCOM wants its commandos to have a Humvee-mounted, deployable print production center (DPPC) to handle their psychological warfare needs. Special Operations Technology magazine has the details:
Additionally, the DPPC must include an electric paper cutter capable of cutting/trimming a 500-sheet stack of 11-by-17 inch paper, with an objective of being able to cut/trim a 1,000 sheet stack of 11-by-17 inch paper…
Not just your corner copy shop, the DPPC must be designed to handle work at the secret level, and have appropriate procedures to meet DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process requirements.
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Before Skinner gets in here and starts complaining about something unrelated to the issue, I’d like to jump in and say I’m not in the least surprised. No headquarters in the last hundred years has been able to consume less than a two cubic feet of paper per shift.
I’m disappointed that they’re thinking so small here — why not specify a fully automated system that will disperse the leaflets via compressed air cannon?
And is it wrong to find it amusing that the soldier in the photo is so hugely pregnant and obviously hating the fact that her picture is being taken?
-AG
Maternity BDUs…there’s something disturbing about that…
It’s my understanding that pregnant women are immediately suspended from all active duty. I think she’s just fat.
And you would be incorrect, Mark.
No, pregnant women are NOT suspended from active duty. They’re given light duty, and the option of staying in the military. I know more than a few women that got pregnant to get out of the Army while I was in. Sad, but there were even more that stayed in, and they worked up ’til the doctor said not to, and then came back after the birth.
Haha, the title of the image above is copier_preggers.JPG.
Classy, defenseTech, very classy.
Pregnant women are NOT given the “option” to stay in teh military. It’s be at least 15 years since that was true. Women who become pregnant on Active Duty are required to complete their service obligation. Most pregnant servie women will usually work in their normal jobs until thier third trimester unless thier physician determines that she be assigned light duty at an earlier date.
But yes, BDU’s look like a$$ on a pregnant woman. LOL.
To clarify the above comment. In today’s military, women are NOT given an option of getting out if/when they find out that they are pregnant. This was the case 15+ years ago, no longer. They are REQUIRED to finish their service obligation.
The practice of releasing pregnant women was stopped because it was discovered that almost 50% of the women entering the service were becoming pregnant during their first year of service knowing that the military would have to take care of their medical expenses until the baby was born before releasing them from their contracts thereby saving the member several thousand dollars in hospital fees all while still receiving a steady income from Uncle Sam.
The option is still available for single mothers or mil married to mil to get out if they get pregnant. Just not everybody.
I think that wasting paper to promote an immoral war is disgusting.
Yes it is still and option. When I was pregnant with my son in 2001, I was able to get out…
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