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Old 10-21-2010, 11:25 AM   #68
classicman
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What you don't understand is that it is a huge system and change comes slowly and needs to institutionalized. This is not simply an order that needs to be given, although it is that, it is more. Change needs to be introduced with a plan in a systematic fashion. I think most of the younger troops can accept it, most of the older folks will have to struggle with it. I support it and I am from the older group. But I am not foolish enough to think that you can foist it on the system with an order and think all will be well. It will not.
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary View Post
The simple solution would have been for the CIC to issue an order the day after he took office. The military does not need some orderly transition. You take your marching orders and make the appropriate change. Screw the lower court rulings, they are not needed and I don't think carry much weight when it comes to establishing policy and procedure in the military.
Wait which is it? The bold (mine) in the first or the second?
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