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We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn in this life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

- Wrongly attributed to Petronius Arbiter, Roman hedonist, about 60 A.D.It is not found anywhere in his works. The earliest known occurrence seems to be in the British occupation force in Germany

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OJTS
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on-job training standard


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Today in Military History

September 27



1918:

CANAL DU NORD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Oct 18)


1918:

VC won by Lt George Fraser Kerr, 3rd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood (near Cambrai), France


1918:

VC won by Lt Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood


1941:

First Liberty ship, the Patrick Henry launched in Baltimore




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