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IT Training in the Military?

firehzd1 asks: "Yesterday's article about the new Czar of Security for the Department of Homeland Security raises a very important question, especially lately. What type of opportunities are there for IT work in the military/government. It seems every article I read is bashing the govt/military for terrible IT decisions/systems but I never hear the other side of the story. How bout we hear from those in the field that can give us a idea of what it is like behind the other side of the heavily armed gate?"

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  1. Opening! by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What type of opportunities are there for IT work in the military/government.

    OPENING: Surveillance and Information Awareness Specialist
    Department: Ministry of Love
    Qualifications:
    - Minimum 5 years experience neural implantation
    - Minimum 4 years experience xenobiology
    - Flexibility with surgical itentity alteration
    - Prior experience with polygraphs
    - Ideological suitability, to be determined by examination
    - Familiarity with ECHELON preferred

    1. Re:Opening! by Corgha · · Score: 4, Funny

      Qualifications:
      - Minimum 5 years experience neural implantation
      - Minimum 4 years experience xenobiology


      Awww, man! It's so frustrating! Here I am with 3 years of experience in neural implantation and xenobiology, but all the low-level jobs have been outsourced to India.

  2. Join the military by m.lemur · · Score: 4, Funny

    Travel to interesting places
    Use interesting computers
    Then blow them up!

  3. Re:microsoft by macshune · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...the f-22 has been plagued by uptime problems for a while now"

    What? Like in flight, Mach-2 rebooting? bah! Back in my day, we had to do barrel-rolls to empty out the carbs! And pop the clutch just to get it off the ground! You youngins have it sooooo easy!

    Damn, we didn't even have helmets, just eatin' bowls...on our heads!

  4. You call that a shell script?? by randomizer9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!

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    A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men... --Willy Wonka