'Military Untelligence IQ Trainwrecks' Category
So, they’ve got guns and are trained to kill…
let’s screw with their pay…
From the erstwhile The Register comes this story about on-going information quality problems in the British Forces pay and personnel system. There have been complaints of pay being withheld for months.
The MOD blames the data input monkeys staff and insists that the system is working fine.
“Input errors based on a degree of unfamiliarity with […]We all know toddlers are terrors…
… but this story (again culled from The Register.co.uk) shows the lengths the US government goes to to stop these known terrors from getting on planes via the Terrorist Screening lists maintained by the Dept Homeland Security.
“USA Today tells the story of a Disney World-loving 6-year-old who shares a name with someone on the “additional […]Nuclear warheads go AWOL on a B-52
Various media (see below for links) have reported the story of the Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMs) that were flown from a base in North Dakota to a base in Louisiana, apparently by accident, and sat relatively unguarded at both bases for a number of hours before the error was noticed. The flight was supposed to […]
TB or not TB (with apologies to Shakespeare)
The Irish Examiner newspaper today carried this story about an American lawyer who was let back into the US despite being red-flagged as a health risk.
It would seem that he had acquired a particularly nasty drug-resistant form of Tuberculosis - a diagnosis which was confirmed in Europe where he was travelling. He was advised not […]

