Military Intelligence?

[Rumely]

I'm not one to bash the military, but I'm a little bothered by something. I know someone who is in AIT in a military intelligence MOS. When they first got shipped off to basic, the military lost their paperwork and didn't know where this person was supposed to go. that is, which company. Now, much of their mail goes to their parents' address. The military can't seem to keep track of their current status (active reserves, in AIT). Shouldn't the military, particularly the military intelligence sector, know where their soldiers are and what they're doing and what their status is? Or maybe they train them so well even they can't track them?

[mcswan]

During the Vietnam war I spent six years in the navy working within the electronic inteligence community, more specifically in radio direction finding. Your post is a humorous incident in military bureaucratic bungling, but the military is still one of the very few things the govenment does fairly well. And, I might add, one of the very few areas where the government actually has constitutional authority to act.

[Rumely]

Based on my experience, I'd guess your career track went from Navy to U. S. Postal service, probably as a mechanic or electronics technician. I think I'm just about the only mech at my facility that didn't serve in the military prior to his postal career. Most of my co-workers are Navy guys with a couple of marines and an army guy thrown in for good measure.

[mcswan]

Actually Rumely, after the navy, I earned a MBA and worked for many years as Program Manager for an electronics compnay. Now I own a manufacturing company.