Re-run: Overheard in the TOC ... or at Daycare?

The writer of the Red Bull Rising blog is currently on family vacation maneuvers at an undisclosed training area, somewhere in the Middle West. This re-post, from those heady pre-deployment days of December 2010, may or not be applicable to our current family banter.

There are any number of comments that seem to have equal application, whether spoken in a military unit's Tactical Operations Center ("TOC") or in a children's daycare setting. In other words ...

"At the TOC or Daycare? You Make the Call!"

• “Who told you do that?”

• “Why didn’t you do what I told you to do?”

• "Was that a good decision or a poor decision?"

• "How many can YOU count?"

• "If I take away this many, how many do you have left?"

• “Where did you last see it when you lost it?”

• "How do you draw a ..."

• "Time to take a nap!"

• "Where were you when you saw the bad stranger?"

• "Hey, that's mine!"

• "Stay on your side!"

• "Clean up your things."

• "Everybody--QUIET!”

A quick shout-out to Saber2th for the inspiration for this. I should note that, despite what people think, he really does play well with others.