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I copied by son (former Marine) on this thread indicating that I was sure he could relate; he replied with some humorous comments.
"We didn't really use these at our level, we found it much more fun to put things bluntly. You know, things like SNAFU, same news all "fouled" up. But even reports were blunt.
One report was a TFOA (Things Falling Off Aircraft). I got a lot of "fabrication experience" making entire panels so our OIC (Officer in Charge) did not have to fill one of these out. This of course proves one of the points made earlier that it is a lot easier to name something more "friendly".
The one exception I remember was a Major, an Annapolis grad no less, authorizing me to use "physical stimulation of good judgment" with one of my more "incident prone" PFC's. Oh, the memories.
"Incident" was used a lot because "accidents" are not preventable and everything was preventable in the eyes of the Corps. Good management technique in my opinion, but again a lot more work."
Sue
"We didn't really use these at our level, we found it much more fun to put things bluntly. You know, things like SNAFU, same news all "fouled" up. But even reports were blunt.
One report was a TFOA (Things Falling Off Aircraft). I got a lot of "fabrication experience" making entire panels so our OIC (Officer in Charge) did not have to fill one of these out. This of course proves one of the points made earlier that it is a lot easier to name something more "friendly".
The one exception I remember was a Major, an Annapolis grad no less, authorizing me to use "physical stimulation of good judgment" with one of my more "incident prone" PFC's. Oh, the memories.
"Incident" was used a lot because "accidents" are not preventable and everything was preventable in the eyes of the Corps. Good management technique in my opinion, but again a lot more work."
Sue