If the changes are moot, then why make the changes?
The military is a bureaucracy like any other, and they make decisions on their own schedule and nobody else's. Have you read the changes? I have, they're linked to off a blog that deals with military legal matters. They're fairly innocuous and I don't see anything in them that might impact Lakin. Click on the link below and scroll to the entry titled "2010 MCM Amendments."