We were not in Laos

[Ninurta]

Never let yourself be placed in a subordinate position to an IDIOT whether government or an individual...Old guys know that much better than young studs.

Now that's a fact. 

It's one of the reasons I didn't go to Baghdad for DynCorp right after the embassy was opened there. The honcho at the embassy was an idiot, but he was the idiot calling the shots, and I didn't care  to get thrown under his bus. 

As an example, the embassy had four (4) up-armored humvees just sitting there in the compound, collecting dust. He refused to let the security contractors for the embassy use them for things like trips into the Green Zone and/or PSD details. Up-armored humvees are nice things to have when you get to rolling through ambushes, but he wouldn't allow it. That placed the dignitaries in as much danger as the contractors providing their security, but he wasn't having any of that. He'd say that "the Green one is secure, you don't need them". My ass it was secure. There wasn't anywhere in Iraq OR Afghanistan that I'd consider "secure".

So the humvees just sat there gathering desert dust because he refused to let them be used. What a waste of taxpayer money! The armored SUV's he did allow the use of were just riolling microwave ovens if you got caught in an IED explosion, and you couldn't retrun fire from them for shit when the balloon went up - you just had to run like hell if you could, and hope an IED wasn't in your near future. The SUV's weren't set up for fighting back like the hummers were.

State Department has an overabundance of idiots like that in it''s ranks - I reckon that's how the likes of John Kerry and Killary Klinton got to run it for a while... they both are highly qualified as idiots.

Of the guys who did go on that contract, 9 returned within 2 months because of the Idiot In Charge. The contract was paying a quarter million a year (for supervisors - 150K for grunts), and that wasn't nearly enough to put up with his bullshit.

There ain't no percentages in letting an idiot tell you what to do and how to do it. Learning that is how young studs get old enough to be the old guys who know better.

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