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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (34349)	8/24/2005 11:56:12 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 362625

A lot of this sounds like self-serving revisionism, but a lot rings true. I do know that no Brigadier General worth his or her salt will take command of a unit where he can't talk to the night shift and they are not in his chain of command. Unless they get explicit written orders to that effect. Anything that happens at your command is your fault, and to allow loose cannons to run around without the written orders of a superior (or well witnessed verbal orders) speaks to a lot of naivety on her part. A lot of officers learned that lesson when CIA agents were assigned to their units in Vietnam. On the other hand, commanding officers get royally ticked off when you request written orders or a witness who can be trusted (not the commanding officer's butt boy). I always used to get "Are you saying you don't trust me, Mister?" My answer was always, "I trust you, sir. But you could die before this mission is over and I want somebody else to know about my orders." More than once, the orders were scrubbed or assigned to a career military type who didn't know that rule #1 is CYA.