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Background

Military service

Part of the background behind how I work. The specifics of service are recorded below and are deliberately left unfilled until they are supplied first-hand.

Record

Service detail

Awaiting your input Every field below is blank on purpose. Branch, dates, rank, role and duty stations are matters of record, and inventing or approximating any of them would be both dishonest and easy to disprove. Fill these in yourself, or delete the rows you would rather not publish.

Branch
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Years of service
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Rank at separation
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Occupational specialty
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Duty stations
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Deployments
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Carried forward

What it left behind

Habits that turned out to transfer directly into technical work.

  1. 01

    Checklists over memory

    Procedures exist because people are unreliable under pressure and at the end of a long day. A written cutover plan is the same instinct applied to a migration.

  2. 02

    Brief before, debrief after

    Say what is going to happen, then afterwards say honestly what actually happened and what would change next time. Most organizations do the first half and skip the second.

  3. 03

    Maintain before it fails

    Scheduled maintenance is cheaper than unscheduled repair, in equipment and in infrastructure. It is also the difference between a quiet week and a bad one.

  4. 04

    Own the outcome

    Report the situation accurately including the parts that reflect badly on you, because the alternative costs someone else time they do not have.

Gallery

Photographs

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Check images for anything that should not be public - unit identifiers, badges, faces of people who have not agreed to appear, and any location detail in the background or the EXIF data.