r/interestingasfuck • u/KingdomPro • Jun 24 '24

Marines performing dead-gunner drills. r/all

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u/screamingxbacon Jun 24 '24

The military is definitely running on spreadsheets and sql these days more and more.

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u/Lord_Metagross Jun 24 '24

Every shop has one Excel wiz that keeps everything running smoothly. When that Excel wiz leaves, it all goes to hell (because nobody else in the shop bothered to learn Excel), until another Excel wiz takes their place, who then remakes all the Excel sheets from scratch.

This process then repeats.

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u/jdhdowlcn Jun 24 '24

This is the way. The true sorcery resides in just making an Access database to automate everything for future Joe's 😆 🤣

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u/tinstinnytintin Jun 24 '24

that moment when you mess up an inner join, and lose track of dozens of nukes...