Death by Powerpoint
There's a lot of Presentations to be viewed in the Army. There are 3 main categories:
Common sense - don't drink and drive, wear a condom (this presentation usually has shockingly disgusting photographs), wear a helmet on bikes, make sure people know where you are when you go camp out in the woods for a week, don't take 20 hour road trips without stopping, etc. These presentations usually breeze by pretty quickly, but the presenter almost always will find the need to supplement the Powerpoint with boring anecdotes from his life. Or interesting anecdotes about how he got his last STD.
Stupid Army policies - Can't drink with officers, wear reflective belts if you're going to be running outside, stop making sexual jokes at work (which always prompts an immediate increase in inappropriate humor in the workplace)
And then there's the WTF category - Don't engage in human trafficking. Or arms smuggling. I don't think I really needed a Powerpoint brief for that. But I guess it was enough of a problem that the Army said "we gotta tell our soldiers this before they go overseas!"
Common sense - don't drink and drive, wear a condom (this presentation usually has shockingly disgusting photographs), wear a helmet on bikes, make sure people know where you are when you go camp out in the woods for a week, don't take 20 hour road trips without stopping, etc. These presentations usually breeze by pretty quickly, but the presenter almost always will find the need to supplement the Powerpoint with boring anecdotes from his life. Or interesting anecdotes about how he got his last STD.
Stupid Army policies - Can't drink with officers, wear reflective belts if you're going to be running outside, stop making sexual jokes at work (which always prompts an immediate increase in inappropriate humor in the workplace)
And then there's the WTF category - Don't engage in human trafficking. Or arms smuggling. I don't think I really needed a Powerpoint brief for that. But I guess it was enough of a problem that the Army said "we gotta tell our soldiers this before they go overseas!"
A few of us were joking the other day about how they should bring up the dangers of autoerotic asphyxiation (hanging yourself with a rope for masturbation purposes) during a safety briefing. Sure, it's not a common problem in the army, to my knowledge. But it's likely no less common than any of this other random training we get.
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December 28, 2011 8:01 PM