Cousin, who was in supply in Britain during WW-2 said that was his biggest problem. Even though his AF career began as a buck private with an 8th grade education, he got rapid promotions during the war because of his innovative solutions and retired a bird colonel.
He hired British women and stationed them where ships were unloading supplies. They would watch for certain shipments, have them set aside, and then cousins trucks would pick them up. Otherwise, many shipments would "disappear". Since his shipments included booze, cigarettes, and food; which were the real currency in Britain during the war; he could "buy" about anything he needed from other units or locally. And then, there is the famous "flypaper report": "Serving as a captain in Army Intelligence during World War II, he (Hugh Troy, a legendary prankster) became bored with the endless paperwork so he began submitting a Daily Flypaper Report to the Pentagon. Using official report forms, Troy filed detailed reports on the number of flies stuck to the flypaper in the mess hall each day. Troy carefully analyzed the wind direction, proximity of the kitchen, and the nearness of the flypaper to windows, and slipped his report in with his other required paperwork. Other officers began asking him how to fill out a form on flies because the Pentagon was hounding them for not submitting their Flypaper Report. https://kaarre.wordpress.com/tag/daily-flypaper-report/ Gerry G Mann wrote: > Bureaucracy: Public evidence that a class of beings exist only because in a > well ordered society, it is illegal to kill them outright. > To harsh? > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > What is really sad is that I still fight those types of battles today. > > Logistics + Bureaucracy will kill you quick, if you let it! > > > > Thanks for sharing Wilton! > > -- > > Max Dillon > > Charleston SC > > '87 300TD > > '95 E300 > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
