Stand By for Navy Appreciation Day 2012!

[Edward Campbell]

Agreed.  I have no quibble about cutting the junk food out of the diet.

Unfortunately some, maybe much of the junk food is mandated by government to support this, that or the other 'objective,' often related to social engineering.' Those parts will be hard to cut out. Some more is deeply entrenched and much loved by some quite senior people inside DND and that, too, will be hard to cut. As discussed elsewhere (and following) there are very real risks that we will cut muscle and leave the fat in place (and happy).

 

[jollyjacktar]

Unfortunately some, maybe much of the junk food is mandated by government to support this, that or the other 'objective,' often related to social engineering.' Those parts will be hard to cut out. Some more is deeply entrenched and much loved by some quite senior people inside DND and that, too, will be hard to cut. As discussed elsewhere (and following) there are very real risks that we will cut muscle and leave the fat in place (and happy).

Agreed.  I have no doubt that it will be mostly muscle that gets cut out.  I truly feel the 90's are going to come back again with a vengance and we are going to get kicked in the goolies for that "peace dividend" that comes of these periods. 

That being said, I could not quibble at the thought of the junk needing to be done away with as CDN stated.