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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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A full bird colonel at my last unit needed a bunch of TS laptops transported as part of an exercise they were starting. 

Forgot to fill out the paperwork beforehand, and tried to tell the SCIF guard (my first line sergeant at the time) to just let them take them, he’d handle the heat later. 

My sergeant stonewalled that colonel who was there with a dozen trucks and humvees for six hours until the guy who handled that paperwork arrived to do it by the book. 

We laughed at it at the time as “lol stupid officer gets put in his place” but truthfully my sergeant did him a massive favor there by not letting him try. “Do what your rank can handle” is a common expression and he was pushing the limits of that bird.
gpt
full birds are a special breed. 
LTCs usually are cool just chilling until retirement / 20 years, but full birds are charging towards trying to make general and I think it breaks something inside them.