Brainiatrics

A new Lieutenant checked in to our G6 (communication) a few months back and they assigned him to figure out why our network connection to MCRD San Diego was so crappy. Here's what he sent me:

"With regard to San Diego, it wasn't so much of an individual machine issue as it was a network issue. They were having lots of network problems to begin with and because their machines weren't caching static content (i.e. images and javascript files), each time they loaded up a page, it would try to download that content again. That could mean 100 copies of the same image being downloaded from the server just to load one page!"

For those of you that are not tech savy, that might sound impressive but for those of you that are, you might view it as elementary. Well, he's come up with a dozen more intricate fixes that make my head spin just trying to keep up with.

Now, he's a Lieutenant so how does he know so much? I mean, he's supposed to be a dopy LT like we all were, right?

Well, I set out to ask a fellow Captain and he tells me that the kid hasn't even been to the comm school yet.

WHHHHHHAT?

I couldn't stand it, I had to ask him. Here is what he had to say.

"Before I came in the Marine Corps, I worked for 6 years as a network engineer for a backbone Internet company doing network testing for data and voice-over-IP. I also worked as a system administrator/network engineer/software engineer for a financial services company that specializes in integrating online trading systems (i.e. making Etrade talk to NASDAQ). So, I happen to have quite a bit of network/software troubleshooting experience."

I feel double-digit IQ points dumber now.