While reading in the bathroom on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:39:48 GMT, I saw
that (Derek Lyons) had written:

Folks in uniform can be found in all manner of odd places. (Or to put
it another way, yes the DoD loans out troops and individuals for
various reasons and periods of time quite routinely.)

Several expeditions of exploration spring to mind, beginning with
Lewis and Clark. Then there was the Jeanette expedition to find the
North Pole, the Schwatka trek across the interior of Alaska, etc.
Then there are the occasional worldwide relief expeditions run
primarily by military personnel. I suppose these were technically
military operations, owing to their composition, but one would be hard
pressed to describe a distinctly military purpose.

Seems to me this entire conversation is fueled by the insistence of
some people on considering the national interest to be synonymous with
military purposes. It's useless to argue or attempt rational
discussion with people who think like that; there's virtually no
difference between them and the conspiracy theorists. Personally, I
could never be that paranoid.


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Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."


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