[Jacquerie]

That’s why I had senior NCO’s thank me for saying political incorrect things, since I wasn’t staying in anyways.

I thought so. You were a pain in the a$$ single enlistment sea lawyer. Good riddance.

[Leisler]

To bad, that's the fundamental nature of bureaucratic organizations. Naturally, that is its very attraction to the less mentally flexible amongst us.

Anyways, My dad was an up from the ranks major who got his arm shot off in Germany. I enlisted but failed my physical by having a slight allergy to bee stings, and was further rejected on appeal to the Army Surgeon General. Whereupon I just went to Oakland , enlisted again and lied, then volunteered for the 82nd and then later SF and ended up on SF Ateam..

So, good thing we never met, as entertaining as it would of been for me.

By the way in a more studious vein, you might of read the New England Journal of Medicine, or the Lancet. Where they often study failed procedures have harmed or killed. I'm curious where in your case the Navy, such cold analytical crizims can be found and read? After all, no large organization can truly prosper with out open communications of failure, right? Maybe you know of a book, say, entitled, US Military Failures, A Systematic Historical Review. I'd like to read it.

Nice little series, especially part 2, on problems of officer corps bureaucracy and anti-intellectualism. It's practical and you'll be able to understand it.