Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Bill Palmer]

The author of "Fast Food Nation" (can't recall his name) wrote about
McDonalds "deskilling" its positions with such detailed sets of instruction.
It sounds like the US Army beat them to it.

Bill
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> I remember a manual for US Army chemical officers (officers, not enlisted)
> that detailed all the tasks that a chemical officer needed to know. The
> one
> for donning chemical protective gear included instructions such as "put on
> pants one leg at a time, fly facing front." The only non-intuitive step in
> the task that actually required some instruction was lacing the chemical
> protective overboots--which were not like standard boots--and the
> instruction for that was simply "lace boots."
>
> I'm convinced it was written by a captain who had been passed over for
> promotion and was exacting a bit of revenge.
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> yes, that's one of them.  Never heard it before, though.
>
> Why do they paint "TGIF" on Marines' boots? To remind them "toes go in
> first"
>
> Bill P
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>>> plus countless jokes pointing out the
>>> general lack of intellectual capacity among Marines.
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>> Marine = Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential
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