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Many moons ago I was sitting in a briefing on human trafficking through the east coast of Africa.  The briefing was for a full bird Colonel who had requested the info from several groups operating on the coast.  Information was flowing like a champ and there were some great points made.  Then something happened and the Colonel said stop. Everyone kind of squished their eyebrows and looked at each other wondering who stepped in it and how. Ill never forget how he took off his glasses and leaned back in the chair rubbing his eyes.  He then continued to berate the briefer for having the slide in the wrong font.

This man was so wrapped up in font types that he could 1. Tell a difference in font that was minuscule at best. (Im not talking wingdings here) and 2. Wanted to berate a bunch of team guys who were on the ground gathering intel while he sat around and drank coffee because they didn’t match fonts.  Is there a power point lobotomy that occurs at some command school Im unaware of? (Yes I know many of you are nodding your heads yes there is) This isn’t where it all started but looking back it kind of did.

Fast forward a few years and you have a team on the ground attached to some cool kids.  All the cool kids had Star Wars themed call signs which was pretty cool. (If you think cool kids don’t like Sci-fi you are crazy!) So as the tour continued the team was very effective but did its best work by never saying something was impossible.  If you read duffleblog(and you should) you know that what really made them effective was the board shorts, beards, and flippy floppies.