Retirement Ceremony could have been retirement e-mail
How does "Honorable if Unexceptional" sound for a plaque?
Seriously. He could have written a goodbye note on the break room dry-erase board.
FORT CAVAZOS, Tx – Soldiers and family members gathered for the retirement ceremony of Lt. Col. Joshua Caristi have agreed that this retirement ceremony totally could have been a retirement e-mail.
Caristi, who served his country honorably, if unexceptionally, for 22 years, wasted everyone’s time and bought a sheet cake that mostly got thrown away, Duffel Blog sources report.
“Two hours? Come on,” Col. Brandon Rogers, Caristi’s commanding officer and host of the ceremony explained to Duffel Blog. “I think there was one paragraph of actual information we needed in that. Blah blah blah, I’m leaving, blah blah blah, effective 1 July.” Rogers went on to add that it all would have fit in the subject line of an e-mail, frankly.
Staff Sgt. Aiden Barrows, who worked with Caristi for two years before his retirement, confirmed that there wasn’t anything in the ceremony that merited an in-person activity. “Boomers alw…
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