I joined my unit midway through a 15-month Afghanistan deployment. They'd been there for a while by the time I got there. About a week in, it became clear I'd need to understand the tribal structures of Waziristan to do my job. So I requested informationhttp://wapo.st/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents?tid=ss_tw …
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Three days later received a 12-page PDF that basically boiled down to "we have no idea, it's very complicated and confusing."
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It was around that time that I noticed my supervisor was spending all his time making unreadable connection maps that were used by no one, and that no one was actually doing anything aside from working out and killing time. This was 2008.
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Replying to @1misanthrophile
To be fair, that supervisor made a career out of being useless without appearing to be useless.
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Replying to @JeremyTheRhino
It was truly impressive
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