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“He should not have done this publicly but privately.”

Nonsense! The Military Lawyers are a meaching, disgraceful lot! My father was a Lt. Commander in the Navy stationed in Australia during WWII in the Supply Corps. Admiral Halsey complained that his PT Boats were out of service for the lack of shaft seals. The problem was getting them from the States. So my father went out on the Australian economy to have them made locally. He was able to get nearly every aspect of the seals covered exception of equipment for “rolling the seal body over the cover.” So he had a draftsman change the parts to make it possible to thread the mating parts and secure them against coming apart by incorporating a tangent screw. Halsey gave him a commendation, because now not only were all his boats operational, they found that they could carry the “seal's innards” while they were out, and they could unscrew the cover after disconnecting the prop shaft from the engine, and simply change the “guts” and go on their way. (The Navy "design" required that the boat be pulled out of the water) At the end of the war a f*cking Navy Lawyer showed up in my Dad's office to inform him that he was “to be courtmartialed for tampering with Bureau of Ships design!” My Dad told the a$$hole that he had been away from his family for nearly five years, and he would immediately accompany him to Washington and “wave one of the seals in front of Congress.” Then he called the SPs and had them take the lawyer to the airport and make sure he was on a plane back to Washington! (he never heard anything further, but it just shows you how counterproductive these jerks are) So when it comes to lawyers, while 95% of them are worthless $hit, in the military, the percentage is likely higher! Thank God Trump isn't a lawyer! And show me one of the RATs running for the Presidency that isn't!

That is a wonderful story about your dad.

Big problem today though: The fucking lawyers (nearly) run the military, and commanders are scared sh*tless to do ANYTHING without the JAGs approval.

Its a freaking cancer on the military (though to be fair, its simply a symptom of the disease that has ruined American life - we are an over-lawyered and over-regulated society).