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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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O&M
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operations and maintenance


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Today in Military History

March 10



1915:

Battle of Neuve-Chapelle begins


1944:

HMC ships ST. LAURENT, SWANSEA and OWEN SOUND, in consort with HMS FORRESTOR, pool their resources to hunt down and sink U-845 in the North Atlantic.




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