That happens when you have people more
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Schmedlap
...He would not have focused so much attention on this foolishness unless there was significant emphasis on it from higher up because he admittedly did not care about the issue otherwise.
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The Colonels and Generals aren't doing their jobs if they're wetting their pants over this stuff.
concerned with appearance than with combat capability -- much less combat competence...
Penalty of being raised in an overly rank heavy 'peacetime Army' that places image ahead of performance and compliance ahead of innovation and that goes out of its way to stifle initiative by significant overcentralization. It is an institutional problem and not totally the fault of the worrywarts.