You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to look into that. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Choose Your Own Adventure, Path A CNO actually sent it to the right inbox, and it reaches the night shift guy at the desk at NOPF. But he has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, so the email sits until his boss gets in the next morning.

Choose Your Own Adventure, Path B CNO didn't send it to the right inbox, it goes to the NOPF's commander rather than the operations desk, and so it isn't seen until the next morning.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to look into that. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Choose Your Own Adventure, Path A CNO actually sent it to the right inbox, and it reaches the night shift guy at the desk at NOPF. But has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, so the email sits until his boss gets in the next morning.

Choose Your Own Adventure, Path B CNO didn't send it to the right inbox, it goes to the NOPF's commander rather than the operations desk, and so it isn't seen until the next morning.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to look into that. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, so the email sits until his boss gets in the next morning.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to look into that. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to do something. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to do something. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon, who gets right on it sending over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon, who gets right on it sending over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon, who gets right on it sending over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

Would you like my estimates on how many hundreds of coffee breaks were taken by all parties involved?

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon, who gets right on it sending over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, and guys he's commanding are all card carrying E-4's who talk him down into leaving it for the day shift.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

Would you like my estimates on how many hundreds of coffee breaks were taken by all parties involved?

You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?

To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?

Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.

The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.

The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon, who gets right on it sending over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.

Night shift guy at the desk at NOPF has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, so lets it sit for his boss on the day team.

It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.

By the end of wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.

That is your government at work dekachin.

Would you like my estimates on how many hundreds of coffee breaks were taken by all parties involved?