Department, service, branch: not the same word | LinkedIn

Part 2 of 11 · Inside DoW New GovCon staff use these three terms interchangeably. It costs them real standing in the room.

Part 2 of 11 · Inside DoW New GovCon staff use these three terms interchangeably. It costs them real standing in the room. Not because the people across the table are pedantic, but because the words point to genuinely different things. Walking into Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the first time in the summer of 1992, I assumed the vocabulary problem was the acronyms. AFRL. AFMC. AFOSR. OPR. POC. Dozens of them, everywhere. What I didn't realize was that some of the plain English words were just as loaded. Department. Service. Branch. The people around me used them with precision. I…

saved by

• Anthony Fletcher

related reading

• Who builds the force vs who employs the forcelinkedin.com
• Who's Demand Signal is it Anyway?abovethenoisefloor.substack.com
• The Defense Reformation18theses.com
• How to Fix Defense Procurement - by Santi Ruiz - Statecraftstatecraft.pub
• One Year in DCgreentape.pub
• The Surprising Power of Documentationnews.ycombinator.com
• The Category Confusionamitojs.substack.com
• What’s in a Name? Reimagining Irregular Warfare Activities for Competitionwarontherocks.com
• Precision In Technical Discussionsrtpg.co
• Clawedhyperdimensional.co
• What’s the Difference Between Training, Education, and Learning? | E-Learning Heroescommunity.articulate.com
• How diplomats see the worldasteriskmag.substack.com