Comments on: Human Terrain System: Senior Managers to Paris, Security Clearance Troubles http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Arthur http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11166 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:03:00 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11166 I’m not sure if HTS as mission essential would require anthrax shots any more. Today, they might only receive the varicella vaccine for smallpox. I have heard from people who pass through Ft. Benning as “mission essential” that they only receive the smallpox vaccine. If that is the case, most people will run a low-grade fever and swollen brachial lymph nodes for their first few weeks in theater. If they are susceptible to shingles infections, the vaccine might prevent future outbreaks.

]]> By: Maximilian Forte http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11148 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:37:30 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11148 Your idea is more elegant and polite than mine, Jérémy.

Mine was:

Socio-cultural
Human
Information
Terrain

]]> By: Jennifer http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11128 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:19:34 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11128 Someone ought to shout out now before HTT people give in that the anthrax shots are dangerous. Their is an hilarious discussion of what happened with one group of military personnel who refused the shots while deployed, along with the army physicians on the team. This is a wonderful memoir called Mass Casualties by Spc Michael Anthony about a medical unit. There is also a sobering discussion in the The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. by Helen Benedict.

]]> By: Jérémy http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11126 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:12:35 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11126 Hi.

Reading this and the previous post on HTS, I suddenly had a PR idea.
I suggest the leaders and promoters of HTS rename their program as :
Functional Intelligence Aggregation System for Counterinsurgency Operations, or :
FIASCO.

Seems quite fitting.

]]> By: Maximilian Forte http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11125 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:55:56 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11125 I have to check that…I had deleted the passages that were in the previous version, so that the new material only would be presented, but I may have gone too far.

]]> By: Anthony http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/06/03/human-terrain-system-senior-managers-to-paris-security-clearance-troubles/#comment-11124 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:31:25 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9108#comment-11124 This section appears to be missing a begin-quote:

>>Not deterred, an MTT (Mobile Training Team) began its MAP HT Road Show starting with HT’Ts in Kandahar. Subsequently, when three groups of U.S. Army Civilians failed the week long course, an individual employed as a U.S. Army contractor threatened them all with being fired.”<<

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