Paperwork SNAFU
As one who hasn't served in the armed forces, military bureaucracy is somewhat baffling to me.
Would the legal formalities discussed already really be necessary c2000? At that point, do overseas military forces and/or the government have the capability to transmit/file/record the requisite paperwork through proper channels, especially when it's become unclear (or a matter of contention) what those proper channels are anymore.
In wartime, the US military has utilized brevet ranks and battlefield commissions. I imagine that these would be authorized, in the field/overseas, at the divisional level and above. With little hope of the paperwork making it back to the USA in a timely fashion, if at all, these rank increases would still be de facto, if not de jure. For the troops on the ground, I don't think it would matter much.
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