December 08, 2006

Longest Sentence Ever

I'm meeting my Qualification Board today, having gone through Phase I and Phase II training and my orientation tour out in the field of dreamskis. It's a two-hour oral exam with three members of the unit, some short-answer, some longer-answer, some situational exercises, all involving our checklists, job knowledge, acronyms, and of course, The Treaty. Referencing it, knowing it, not laughing at entries like:

On the above basis, the Parties agree that the existence of the first stage of an SS-25 ICBM that is incorporated into a space launch vehicle, designated by the Russian Federation as the "Start" space launch vehicle, in a configuration in which the first and second stages of an SS-25 ICBM, together with a new stage, are contained in one section of the launch canister of such a space launch vehicle, and the third stage of an SS-25 ICBM, together with another new stage, is contained in another section of the launch canister of such a space launch vehicle, and its exit as part of the "Start" space launch vehicle from the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant after March 1, 1995, do not result in SS-25 ICBMs thereafter being considered, for the purposes of the Treaty, to be ICBMs that are maintained, stored, and transported in stages, provided that the sections of the launch canister of the "Start" space launch vehicle are maintained, stored, and transported together, solely in this configuration, until the "Start" space launch vehicle is prepared at a space launch facility or test range for launch.

Pusuant my dear, I doth give a damn.

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