Who has worked as an engineer for a company with the military as a customer?

[Baitball Blogger]

I had a friend who worked for one of the companies that did business with the military. They would either make the schematics for the military war machines, or they would execute the plans and make the equipment. She told me that she came across a military euphemism that made her laugh. It had to do with the tanks. The term simply meant the amount of time it would take to remove the human remains and make the tank operational again.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

[hunter]

1. It does ring a bell, but I don't remember any term.

I knew someone who designed electronics for tanks. It was all GaAs radiation hardened stuff so the tank would still be operable even after multiple crews had suffered lethal radiation doses.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It would have been a situation like that.

Except that the timing might be off. She told me this sometime in the eighties.

[hunter]

3. The first GaAs microprocessors were developed in the late 'seventies...

... just in time for Ronald Reagan's Star Wars and Neutron Bomb fantasies, so this would have been about the same time.