{"id":68657,"date":"2016-10-29T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68657"},"modified":"2016-10-29T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T18:45:25","slug":"the-never-ending-drc-groundhog-day-saga-take-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68657","title":{"rendered":"The Never Ending DRC &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; Saga &#8211; Episode 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems I\u2019ve been &#8220;exposed&#8221;.\u00a0 Yet again.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the DRC, or perhaps a member thereof, thinks they know who I am.\u00a0 Yet again.<\/p>\n<p>This time, a little birdie told me that they\u2019ve &#8220;determined&#8221; I\u2019m a First Sergeant.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve also &#8220;determined&#8221; that I\u2019m assigned to an Army Engineer unit.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.\u00a0 That\u2019s odd.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember getting those assignment orders.\u00a0 I think I\u2019d remember something like that.<\/p>\n<p>I also don&#8217;t remember getting orders appointing me to be a First Sergeant in any Engineer unit.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;d remember that, too.<\/p>\n<p>And I distinctly remember getting retirement orders some time back.\u00a0 (Looks at file copy.)\u00a0 Yeah, there they are.\u00a0 Maybe I should check my ID card to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>(Looks at Retired ID card).\u00a0 Yep, ID card confirms it \u2013 I\u2019m retired.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 So, how in the world did I get assigned to an Engineer unit as a First Sergeant?<\/p>\n<p>Gee, ya don\u2019t suppose those\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>morons<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fellows got things wrong <u>yet again<\/u>, do you?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah:\u00a0 they did.\u00a0 For <em>at least the 14th time<\/em>, they\u2019ve had a collective brain fart and misidentified another individual as being me.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, scratch that. They&#8217;d actually have to have a functional brain to have a brain fart. Not sure they qualify on that score &#8211; even in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>For the record: I&#8217;m not assigned to any Engineer unit; I&#8217;m a retiree. I don\u2019t know this guy they&#8217;ve identified as being me &#8211; hell, I&#8217;ve never met him.\u00a0 (I\u2019m not going to name him here; he doesn\u2019t need the grief.)\u00a0 And I don\u2019t live anywhere near his unit&#8217;s HQ, either.<\/p>\n<p>But nonetheless, the DRC claims that\u2019s who I am.\u00a0 And considering their track record here . . . I\u2019m not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Those fools couldn\u2019t find their own butts with written instructions, both hands, two full-length mirrors, and a helper. It figures they&#8217;d screw up &#8220;finding&#8221; me one more time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK, obligatory recap.\u00a0 This is <u>at least the 14th time<\/u> the DRC has Fornicated Fido and identified some individual as being me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve missed one or two of their bogus IDs along the way, so the real total is probably higher.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been wrong <i><b>every freaking time<\/b><\/i>.\u00a0 And they show no sign of getting any better with practice.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65067\"><em>this article<\/em><\/a> gives a brief description of their last erroneous ID.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64517\"><em>This second article<\/em><\/a> gives additional details concerning their other dozen &#8220;goofs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I swear, I think I&#8217;m going to have to post them step-by-step instructions.\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably the only way they&#8217;ll ever be successful at finding Hondo.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I&#8217;ve figured out something else about whoever&#8217;s doing this:\u00a0 this song absolutely must be a favorite of theirs.\u00a0 Kinda descriptive of their obsessive mind-set, IMO. \u00a0 (smile)\u00a0 <em>(Warning:\u00a0 lyrics around 2:15 and 5:43 may be\u00a0 briefly NSFW\/around prudes, children, or clergy due to language.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r5kmCgVhADY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Footnote:<\/span>\u00a0 In case you&#8217;re wondering about the piano work on the song, that&#8217;s apparently Ron Argent&#8217;s handiwork. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Helluva job, IMO. Really a pity he and the lads didn&#8217;t do more work together over the years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems I\u2019ve been &#8220;exposed&#8221;.\u00a0 Yet again. It seems the DRC, or perhaps a member &hellip; <a title=\"The Never Ending DRC &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; Saga &#8211; Episode 14\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68657\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Never Ending DRC &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; Saga &#8211; Episode 14<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}