I was at the consulting firm's offices today. It's a long story of all the stupidity I witnessed in one day, but suffice to say that I have reaffirmed my vow to never work for a big company again (I have to take two laptops because they won't configure mine to work with their VPN, in fact I can't even check a POP box from their LAN; it just gets dummer from there).
Small change to my schedule, I'm going through Paris instead of Frankfurt tomorrow; which breaks my vow to not return to France unless I'm in an armored division.
Anyway, the interesting part of today was that I finally got a copy of the (business confidential, so I can't post it) security manual. It's pretty fascinating. One of the first pages is all about what to do under certain situations which sound so common place when you see it writing e.g. "gunfire in the hallway" and "mortar, rockets, RPG's,...from outside coming into your room". Then it goes on to provide you with helpful gems like "don't stick your head outside to see what is going on" and "scream, blow a whistle or try to notify someone".
Gee, I didn't even pack a whistle.
Oh well, I do hear it's fascinating in Iraq and a lot of people actually don't want to come home. I'll see it for myself soon enough. DoD processing is at 8am tomorrow, then I'm on a plane tomorrow night.