Every six months or so my team is asked to brief the soldiers we serve on the programs that are in our charge. For the most part, it is pretty routine. We get up there and talk about the tests that have been run and the results that we have been seeing and what our expectations are for the next six months. Its all very routine, but every now and then we get some character sitting in the back row who has to flex his pride muscles and make the interns on our team look stupid. Such was the case a few months back. Two young ladies on my team were discussing a new non-lethal (rubber bullet) program that was under development. The guy in the back decided to ask the girls if they had been shot by the product. When they said no, he sneered at them and advised them to take one for the team as soon as possible. As the discussion went on, he kept pushing them, saying that before he was allowed to carry a tazer he had to have been shot by a tazer. He told them that before he was allowed to use tear gas he had to have been gassed himself. The girls were very flustered and frankly so was I. So then I asked him, did you have to get shot before theyd let you carry your pistol? He sat down for the rest of the meeting.
