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Originally Posted by cardician
Ah, I understand. Well of course I don't understand, but I see what you're saying. So my officer is basically a liar.
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No like any good officer he was keeping a reserve that he did not tell the commander about.
When I was stationed in Korea about 20+ years ago, I was responsible for a rather valuable resource. My responsibilty was to ensure that we had sufficient quantities of this resource in case of "emergencies" ie war.
So naturally I had a secret reserve. But the more experienced commanders knew that I would have a secret reserve so I had to have a secret secret reserve so when the commander used up not only our overt supply but my secret reserve supply I still had extra in case of a crisis.
Thus is the way of the military. In times of crisis I can't tell my commander "well we are all out because you used all our resources for that upteenth exercise Sir" The only acceptable answer is "Sir, we are all out of the resource.... but I think I know where I can get a hold of more".