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 Derek Nelson has been writing the Friday Funnies since 2002. He also creates the Photo of the Week feature for this website. A long-time Naval Safety Center employee, he is head of the Media Division in the Communications and Marketing Department. He is author of more than 200 freelance magazine articles and ten books about Americana and military history.
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Nothing Is Impossible for the Person Who Doesn’t Have To Do It
Posted May 13, 2013
A long time ago at a Navy conference, I heard an O-6 proclaim, “OPNAV instructions are for the guidance of the timid and uninformed.”
It sounded like heresy. I marveled at how the hundreds of military and civilian people in the audience—serious professionals who studied, quoted and obeyed formal guidance all day long—didn’t start hooting, throwing wadded up programs at the stage and stalking out in protest.
Looking back, I think they just understood what he meant better than I did when I was naïve and inexperienced. When I hadn’t realized that there was an ideal world and a real world that weren’t exactly mirror images. When I hadn’t spent my own personal time and energy helping craft guidance that would have worked perfectly except that the target audience didn’t read and follow it, they just kept doing whatever was expeditious.
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