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The storm within
We had an expression in the military for situations in which plans or decisions made earlier no longer applied or had become completely irrelevant. Overtaken by events. Say, for example, your plan was to provide heavy winter coats for your troops, but those coats were accidentally shipped to the wrong place; the coats were OBEd. Say you’d decided to take a forty-eight hour pass, only to learn there’d been a security incident and all passes were canceled; you pass was OBEd.
And say you planned to take an umbrella to keep you dry on a windy rainy day, but the wind was stronger than you expected. Your umbrella? It just got OBEd.
Life happens like that.
In the military, when you got OBEd, there was always somebody with more stripes around to offer you some advice (often at the top of their lungs): DSGA. Display some goddamned adaptibility. You can learn a lot in the military.
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