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Bureaucracy

Before I came to Iraq, I actually looked forward to fewer stupid rules. I was mostly wrong about that.

From S4 at War (a unit S4 is responsible for supply/logistics and stuff) comes this story of how KBR gets stuck behind an invisible line, because the rules state that they can't cross it to clean a port-o-pottie. To me, though, the real story isn't the officer who has to make sure it gets done, but rather the soldier who actually gets tasked with moving the latrines daily onto the other side of this invisible line.