[Truth29]

Don't put too much into the fact that the signatures are identical. A lot of government agencies used to use (and may still use) a device called an autopen or sigmac. This machine actually signs each document with a type of pen and is legally binding. It is a method to give an original looking signature rather than a stamp, but can be used for mass production of documents, such as certificates or letters to constituents.

[Darksheare]

I was going off my experience in uniform with my last Battalion XO, he preferred to hand sign things since rubber stamps are too easy for anyone to use whether or not he'd actually seen the paper himself.