pRECISION

There are some people who, trained by the creative problem solving requirements for their job, do not understand the importance of precision. Builders can suffer from the affliction and so can mechanics because every day, due to poor funding, they are without the proper tools and materials or parts to do the required job. They have learned through years in the military that any way you can get the job done is a good way and are praised for their "Can Do" attitude (and blessed by the fact that after six months deployment is over and we never again see what we built or fixed so if it falls apart we don't feel the pang of failure). That lesson isn't a part of the surveyor's arsenal. We use numbers to do our job and they are perfect, precise and don't lie (except, of course, in the hands of creative statisticians) and that's why I like them.

So when a Navy mechanic is tasked with completing a HOB (Health of the Battalion) brief, and he thinks he is done, he decides to hand it off to the much lower ranking surveyor because he wants an eye for precision to look it over. The problem comes when that eye for precision finds many, many, many problems. Now, suddenly, the surveyor has to complete the HOB brief by tomorrow morning.

This surveyor isn't so happy.