Sunday, July 31, 2005

The Greatest Logistician

In today's gospel, Jesus is confronted with a a crowd approaching ten thousand, and asks how they will be fed:

Matthew 15:34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.15:38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

Truly, Jesus is the greatest logistician! If this situation arose in a military situation:
  1. Several clerk's would have had to identify the proper NSNs to order.
  2. MILSTRIP requisitions would have had to be prepared and entered in the DLA wholesale system, unless of course, the command has a government credit card.
  3. If the requisitions were coded properly, for example 02 Priority, 999 Required Date, etc., the orders once received at the CCP, would have been airlifted and would arrive in about three weeks; and that's assuming the items were properly palletized, had proper shipping labels, had no frustrated cargo, the convoy on ASR Michigan didn't get delayed, another services didn't keep a few items, customs and food service inspectors signed off on the shipment, no food spoiled, and there were no rocket attacks at the moment -- then, the people would have been fed.

And, since He was a fisherman, doesn't that mean he was a man of the sea, a sailor?