not a man, but a cloud in trousers

neopets forum posts i reference all the time but nobody gets

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“I was not a flying officer, I was a staff officer, but I analyzed bombing and bombing operations and how to make them more efficient, i.e. not more efficient in a sense of killing more,” although that’s exactly what they did, “but more efficient in weakening the adversary.”

McNamara remembered taking part in a briefing session in Guam in March 1945 after a firebombing raid over Tokyo at which one B-29 crew commander complained, “Some Goddamned fool took this airplane that can fly at high altitude and ordered us to go in at 7,000, and I lost my wingman. I’d like to know who that son-of-a-bitch was.” McNamara [who had helped make the decision] happened to be sitting next to LeMay. “He knew, having been in the lead airplane himself, exactly what that young man had been facing. He got up and gave a very sensitively stated—sympathetic but clear—answer. He said, in effect, ‘Well, our job is to destroy targets and the proper measure you should give, captain, of relative losses at high level and low level is not per sortie, but per target destroyed. So, per unit of destruction, you’re way ahead.’

years old drawing of begemot

just cried so hard at this that i actually nearly threw up