If all goes well the US Army should be compliant by November:

Y2K Compliance by November

And who said things were getting tight. We have a whole month to clean up the lose ends for the US Army. A cakewalk!!

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 01, 1999

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And that's just the "mission-critical" systems. What effect will the "non-mission-critical" systems have if they fail?

-- Bruce (bwebber@ameritech.net), July 01, 1999.

Bruce,

Perhaps you should go back & re-read the article.

Best Wishes,

-- Bingo1 (howe9@pop.shentel.net), July 01, 1999.

Bingo/Bongo, please tell us all what it said.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 01, 1999.

Bingo/Bongo, could you be Unc D(ope) incognito?

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 01, 1999.

If all goes well, the Army's Y2K problems should be solved by November of this year....

"First, our techniques of estimating are poorly developed. More seriously, they reflect an unvoiced assumption which is quite untrue, i.e., that all will go well...."

(Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month)

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), July 01, 1999.

the statement made was VERY OPTIMISTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- insider (can't@talk.now), July 01, 1999.

Cool, a different fight. That other one is kinda getting stale, and it's definitely long-winded. Those people obviously like to type better than I do. Please make it just an old-fashioned flame war if you would, I've had about all the piousness I can stand for one week.

-- RB (R@AR.ST), July 01, 1999.

Sounds like alot of last minute, eleventh hour "schedules" to me. Does the Army have a good track record for keeping timely schedules? Aren't they the ones who gave us all "The Bradley"? (let's all hummmm the theme song from the HBO movie, shall we? I just loved it.)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 01, 1999.

Bruce,

Loss of control of a weapon system, where the munition once fired, turned around in flight like a boomerang and came back to bite the crew that fired it. Have seen it happen twice over the years. Had no correlation to Y2K testing. Just hurried attempt at fielding new system by contractor, who I must point out was the cheapest bidder! Sound familiar? There is nothing worse, and I must say more accurate than being fired at by your own weapons.

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), July 01, 1999.

Well snowleopard......I'd have to say that's *exactly* what Y2K is all about. We're about to be approached by our own missle, BWAAAHAHAHOHO. Sheeeeeseeeee ......I need another kleenex..whooooooohahahahooo.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 01, 1999.

My last post was directed at Ray and Unc. Sorry I took the thread off topic. I don't know if the information is accurate, no one does. I just have to believe that if anyone will have their shit together, it will be the military. I think they've proven themselves to be fairly competent over the years.

-- RB (R@AR.ST), July 01, 1999.

The groundtroops will be extremely compitent, with weapons 'in hand'.....headed towards the oval office! Followed by the peasants with pitchforks and sicles. I'm not so sure about the technical aspect, however.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 01, 1999.

Will,

I have to admit that is a pleasant thought. I enjoy your posts. Shoveling **** sucks doesn't it.

-- RB (R@AR.ST), July 01, 1999.

The military might not be ready for Y2K when Y2K arrives. Yippety-do. I'm sure many find that a scary thought and others are relieved, personally, I rate it right up there next to my concerns about VCR's being messed up.

I have needed the military my whole life for 2 things; detering other countries from attacking this one, and bullying other countries into relations that are economically favorable to our country. If our military is messed up by Y2K, the other countries will have messed up militaries too, and likely worse. We're not under any threat of invasion, unless you buy into the NWO concerns - which I don't. That our military might be less capable of intimidating other countries is a problem I can live with.

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), July 01, 1999.

I'd feel a whole bunch better if our *PRESIDENT* became unable to intimidate anyone any longer. My troops...I trust fully and value far greater than you obviously do, sir.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 01, 1999.

"If all goes well..."

What happens, if perchance, all does not go well???

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), July 03, 1999.