Donut of Misery

Written by Heather | 21 March 2011

the donut of misery is a pie chart that helps you visualize how quickly your deployment is passing, how much you have accomplished and how much you have left. it is an excel spreadsheet that divides it down tot he seconds you have left. ENJOY!

The donut is NOT an OPSEC violation, as you have 3 variables. The date they left, the date they come home, and the rate down to the second at which your donut changes percentage. In order to figure out what your percentage indicates you would need to know 2 of the three variables. If someone knew that, it would mean that you had already violated OPSEC, but with the donut, there's no need. 30 people could all have 16% left and all have different homecoming dates. Thus, the donut is NOT and OPSEC violation.

Link for the download

if you don't have Excel, download this

if you dont want to save it to your computer and would just like to input each time you check, use this.

Comments

#3 Julia Dillon 2012-10-16 02:55

Sarah is right. For whoever wrote the article if you would've taken the time to actually ask your FRO about this they will tell you that the DOM is in fact an opsec violation. Besides, the only reason you should have a DOM is for personal gratification, not to post it on Facebook, which would mean that anyone who posts it on Facebook gets some sort of joy out of telling the world how far into a deployment they are, which is quite pathetic.

#2 Sarah 2011-06-26 22:37

Just because you have three variables doesn't mean you can't figure out the dates. If you post the DOM twice, you can figure out the homecoming date using simple math, so yes, it is an OPSEC violation.

Okay, here's an example with random dates and percentages -- Lets say you post on August 25 that your DOM is at 35% and then on September 30 you post that it's at 62%. From this, I know that 35 days equals 27%. Using simple math, you can figure out that the homecoming date is 73 days from September 30... No exact dates posted, just two percentages.