Curiouser and curiouser...

Just an observation at o'dark thirty in the morning.

I've been somewhat intrigued by the increasing bleedover of military terminology (aka MilSpeak) into the civilian sector and vice versa; e.g., the elusive, grail-like "Six Sigma" (which has replaced "Zero Defects") -- a noble goal in manufacturing, say, an SUV, but an unrealistic one in such military pastimes as the Close Combat Course (that's why the ratio of instructors to trainees is "parity" -- to keep the mistakes manageable and, hopefully, non-fatal).

Yesterday I heard the buzzwords "Mission Statement" used in a commercial for, of all things, used cars.

I can guarantee that a military briefer will soon utter the phrase "product delivery" to describe either an airstrike or a combat assault.

Remember, you saw it here first...