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Either All or No One
(By Col. Mohammad Reza Baniali)
That day I was late for work. One of the colleagues said: "Col. Yasini is waiting for you, It seems like there is something important for you."
When I entered his office, I saluted. He warmly received me. He was holding a letter in his hand. He gave me the letter and said "Major, this is a letter form one of the authorities. Take it."
I opened the latter. It said that conscript…. had disabled parents whom he had to take care of.
Transfer him to Tehran. "Major Baniali! You know well that there are many conscripts on this base who are in the same condition and have been recommended. We should settle this problem. We should either transfer all the others to their desired places or keep this soldier here. You should make a list of the soldiers who are in the same condition and give it to me."
After two days I took the list I had prepared to his office. After reading it, he wrote a comprehensive report on the conscripts and asked for a solution for their problems. He noticed that there were one hundred conscripts on the base who where in the condition the recommended one was in. Either all of them should be transferred to their desired places or no one. After some time I got the approval of the headquarters to transfer some of the conscripts from Chabahar to their desired places and replace them by the newly sent soldiers from the capital.
One day I saw Col. Yasini with a smile of satisfaction on his face. He turned to me and said, "Major! By God's will with that letter of recommendation the problem of some of the other conscripts have been solved."
That day I was late for work. One of the colleagues said: "Col. Yasini is waiting for you, It seems like there is something important for you."
When I entered his office, I saluted. He warmly received me. He was holding a letter in his hand. He gave me the letter and said "Major, this is a letter form one of the authorities. Take it."
I opened the latter. It said that conscript…. had disabled parents whom he had to take care of.
Transfer him to Tehran. "Major Baniali! You know well that there are many conscripts on this base who are in the same condition and have been recommended. We should settle this problem. We should either transfer all the others to their desired places or keep this soldier here. You should make a list of the soldiers who are in the same condition and give it to me."
After two days I took the list I had prepared to his office. After reading it, he wrote a comprehensive report on the conscripts and asked for a solution for their problems. He noticed that there were one hundred conscripts on the base who where in the condition the recommended one was in. Either all of them should be transferred to their desired places or no one. After some time I got the approval of the headquarters to transfer some of the conscripts from Chabahar to their desired places and replace them by the newly sent soldiers from the capital.
One day I saw Col. Yasini with a smile of satisfaction on his face. He turned to me and said, "Major! By God's will with that letter of recommendation the problem of some of the other conscripts have been solved."
