MALP Specialists Training Manual

A note on my policy on tips:

Way back when I first joined the SGC, in late March 1999, I couldn't do MALPs very well. Then, as I got more points, and practiced more, I learned to do the MALPs. Around the time when I got promoted to Brigadier General, which wasn't too long from the time when I got promoted to Major General -- it took me a month to get to General, and most of that time was spent at the lower, non-officer ranks, below Second Lieutenant -- I started writing MALP tips. I was on SG-8 from my first day, and thought it would be nice if the tips stayed just amoung members of SG-8, so that we could get the weekly bonus more often. (Since then I've come to the realization that if you know how to do MALPs, 10 points once every two weeks isn't that much.) I also told people that if they switched to SG-8, I would show them the tips. That entire effort didn't work out so well, eventually ending with an incident with a member of SG-11, whom although I still remember the name of, shall go unnamed. Basically what happened is that someone switched to SG-8 long enough to get me to email them the tips, and then switched back to SG-11. That was when I realized that trying to keep MALP tips, or any other kind of tips on one team is about as easy as carrying water in a bucket with holes in the bottom -- not something that you can do for very long. I've also noticed since then that I have as many friends who aren't on the same team as I am as I do on the same team as me -- many of whom are very good friends. So because of that, the difficulty of keeping tips on one team without having an elite group of people who are the only ones who get the tips (and probably aren't even the ones who need the tips the most), and my desire not to keep my tips from those who aren't on the same team as me, it is my policy to share tips that I create with whomever wishes to see them. This does not mean that if someone else writes tips and shows them to me that I will share them with others without the permission of the author of the tips. It simply means that anyone and everyone is welcome to look at any tips that I write, such as those on this page and the pages linked to it above.