Rules Engagement facts
While investigating facts about Rules Engagement, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1967 a man appeared on Jeopardy! intending to win just enough money to buy an engagement ring. He won that amount halfway through and kept his mouth shut from there on. To prevent a recurrence, the rules were changed shortly thereafter, allowing only the winner to keep all his/her winnings.
Stephen Colbert's father and two older brothers died in a plane crash because the cockpit crew became distracted from talking while landing the plane. A few years later, the FAA created the 'Sterile Cockpit Rule,' prohibiting staff from engaging in non-essential conversation once below 10,000 ft
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 19 of the best facts about Rules Engagement I managed to collect.
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2-month salary rule for engagement rings is a marketing ploy designed by De Beers diamond cartel
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Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese military officer and UN observer who disobeyed UN Rules of Engagement to save "at least hundreds" during the Rwandan Genocide.
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In the 5th century, St. Benedict wrote a rule book for monks. He convinced them to be celibate, poor, to get up in the middle of the night to pray, to engage in hard labor and almost no conversation, to obey the orders of their abbott ... but he couldn't convince them to give up the booze.
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The Prophet Muhammad's rules of engagement in war protected all innocents, including animals and trees, "especially those that are fruitful"
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In 2011, a London High Court judge had banned a man from having sex because of low IQ. The judge ruled that the man did not understand what he was doing and that he did not "have the capacity to consent to and engage in sexual relation."
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Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, a WW1 German submarine captain who sank 4x as much tonnage as any other submarine captain since, despite respecting all the rules of engagement against civilian ships.
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The U.S. military built a miniature town called CyberCity at a secret location in New Jersey which they use to train soldiers while using realistic rules of engagement. The town boasts good public transit, its own reservoir, a coffee shop, a church, a bank... you name it.
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2-month salary rule for engagement rings is a marketing ploy designed by De Beers urban diamond cartel
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The Red Baron broke his own combat engagement rules and was shot down most likely from the ground. He probably broke those rules due to brain damage from being shot down 9 months earlier
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“House Dicks”, or Hotel Detectives, referred to plain clothes people engaged to monitor the security of a hotel and investigate various security or rule violations therein.
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The U.S. supreme court has twice ruled that federal employees have no inherent right to engage in political speech other than voting.
Jim Webb wrote the original screenplay for the movie Rules of Engagement - source
The Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that the Constitution does not grant "a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy" but in 2003 reversed itself, saying the 1986 ruling "was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today." - source
Virginia Senator Jim Webb was a writer and executive producer for the 2000 movie, "Rules of Engagement"
Senator and former Democratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb wrote "Rules of Engagement" - source
Simulated war exercises in 2002 showed that Iran could devastate an American naval fleet using asymmetrical tactics. These war games were then paused to change the rules of engagement to restrict the use of these tactics and the "sunk" ships were "re-floated".
From the (today) released secret JFK files, the ''Rules of Engagement'' for ships and planes challenged ''for visit and search'' by the US Navy around Cuba in December 1963. (see page 14) And yes, lethal force was authorized.
