re: "That's one way to play CINC"

With some leaders, their version of leadership-by-example is to provide a bad one.

Cdr Salamander ("Proactively “From the Sea”; leveraging the littoral best practices for a paradigm breaking six-sigma best business case in the global commons, rightsizing the core values supporting our mission statement via the 5-vector model.") provides one instance of this:

"(W)e are telling the Soldiers and Marines getting ready to head out to Afghanistan to mark-time while the new Administration goes through a Les Aspin like chat-fest as people die?"