Deadlines...
May. 20th, 2014 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpTo mix metaphors, the long pole on my plate has been a job with quite a number of PDF drawings to translate. You see, PDFs are not really amenable to in-file translation, and this is particularly the case when the editor doesn't own a copy of sftware capable of editing PDFs.
I had hoped to get this job done and out the door in the early afternoon, but two high-priority items jumped the line, so I still have several PDFs to translate. I am not going to do that now; it's late.
I find myself about three-quarters of the way through One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, by Nathaniel C. Fick. It is obviously a page-turner, at least for me. It is neither an paean to the Corps, nor a critique, although both pride and excoriation appear in the narrative, which covers the author's career from entering the Corps through (so far) the early days of the second Iraq war. I shall have to make time to go through the book again, to make note of a number of observations about leadership, particularly from the perspective of an officer leading troops.
Cheers...
I had hoped to get this job done and out the door in the early afternoon, but two high-priority items jumped the line, so I still have several PDFs to translate. I am not going to do that now; it's late.
I find myself about three-quarters of the way through One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, by Nathaniel C. Fick. It is obviously a page-turner, at least for me. It is neither an paean to the Corps, nor a critique, although both pride and excoriation appear in the narrative, which covers the author's career from entering the Corps through (so far) the early days of the second Iraq war. I shall have to make time to go through the book again, to make note of a number of observations about leadership, particularly from the perspective of an officer leading troops.
Cheers...
