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Army Col. Lawrence Sellin, a Green Beret, fired after griping online about PowerPoint - New York Daily News

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WASHINGTON - All Army Col. Lawrence Sellin wanted to do was be a real warrior killing Taliban, not a PowerPoint Ranger killing time in Afghanistan's rear echelon.

After the Green Beret with a Ph.D. piped up about it in an online column, he got sacked from Afghan war boss Gen. David Petraeus' staff - and catapulted into cult status as a military folk hero.

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He was ordered home after penning a snarky poke at PowerPoint briefings for “cognitively-challenged generals” running NATO’s “bloated” command, where “you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a colonel.” While that might have been career suicide for the Army Reservist, he unexpectedly became a hero in the ranks for standing up to bureaucratic inertia – which he fears will cost G.I.s’ lives. Sellin told the Daily News the upper echelons are overly concerned with font sizes and bullet points in a bureaucratic stalemate that will “likely prolong the war effort and create more casualties.” “Failures at that command level can have serious consequences for the ordinary soldier,” Sellin said….
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