Quote Originally Posted by KaiKatzchen View Post
I also don't believe in assuming that people are stupid and can't be taught.
Why not? Appearently this statement is difining yourself on this particular topic.

You appear to be incapable of being taught. You refuse to learn that there is more cause for confusion with marginal error and mistake then with an alpha-numaric system. There is an incredible number of intelligent or educated people with dyslexia, or other issues that can cause confussion with one individual directin another to an X,Y coordinate on a map.

They could not know, or nor recall what they were taught previously and give it to you wrong.

They could have dyslexic tendancies.

They could of had a crappy teacher who skipped over it.

They could simply be confussed.

The could have learned it incorrectly and opposite by mistake, and have always used it incorrectly.

The list goes on and on and on. But just as with yourself. Attepting to educate others, is by no means a garuntee that it will soak on oe be learned. It is cause for such uncertainty, that in all my years in the military, the axis was always given with the number for clarification, just as with lartitude and longitude. The work the same way but they are anounced with the coordinates reguardless. Because if you need and enemy location bombed or shell that is in your region, if you want to assume the young new soldier/airman/seaman on the other end of the radio gets it right and has the enemy hit and not you. Thats your business, but its not very intelligent to assume or claim the other guy won't screw it up.