Every door at the Air Force Academy has a sign that says FPCON: ALPHA. It’s clearly very, very important. As best I can tell, it’s no different than the terror alert color code warnings. FPCON stands for “Force Protection Condition”. How do they come up with these things? I mean, what does that mean?? Is it really English? Every Academy telephone has a pad of paper next to it on which you’re supposed to write down bomb threats. I don’t know that the academy has ever HAD a bomb threat. Our tax dollars at work. At the training today, they…
Given the rather high-profile nature of my current job and the fact that it’s so difficult to talk about generically, I’m going to have to restrict future job-related posts. The only way I’ve found to do this that makes sense so far is to require users to create accounts and login. After you login, if you accept the cookie, you should stay logged in forever. If you don’t log in, you’ll simply never see Berck’s job-related posts. After you log in, they should magically appear. Clearly I’ll need to manually authenticate users, so there will be some delay after you…
Considering that my new job is rather high-profile, I’m not sure what I’m going to do when it comes to blogging about it. I certainly don’t want anyone involved to stumble across it with a few simple web searches. That in mind, I’ll probably avoid talking about certain searchable specifics. For now. Maybe I’ll make job-related posts viewable only if you log in. The first potentially major item to mention is that I wasn’t really given the whole story. My employment is contingent on passing training, which doesn’t really surprise me. What does surprise me is that from what I…