Like any military headquarters staff, we generate a lot of reports around here. It's almost a daily occurrence for us to come up with some kind of briefing, point paper, after action review, op order, etc. Around the office we joke about how most of this stuff sits in desk drawers or file cabinets and then eventually gets shredded when it's superceded by a newer version. (The Range SOP that was finished and signed when I got here a few weeks ago is about to undergo Change 1.) So I thought of a clever invention that will cut down processing time and lead to greatly increased efficiencies throughout CJTF-HOA. We could put a printer on top of a shredder and rig the document tray to feed directly into the shredder's mouth. I even came up with the name 'Shrinter'. That had us laughing most of the afternoon. This morning I discovered through Google that The Shrinter already exists. There is nothing new under the sun.
The only improvement we could come up with would be to pass the documents through a scanner that automatically emails them into everyone's recycle bin.
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