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Plus that is where most of the smart Soldiers end up.

Sometimes. :D I say this as a former 98C who has seen the dumbest people in MI units.

But you're right about the need for programming support: during the Gulf War I discovered that the '386 (possibly '286) that we'd been using primarily as a Wing Commander Entertainment Console in one of our comms huts also had a copy of DBase III on it. Figured out how to create a table and query it, and applied it to my job. Didn't get a medal out of it, but it opened my eyes to the usefulness and power of databases.



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