<p>Easy to understand your observation. But one is momentary, the other chronic.</p>
<p>The bigger issue is that the Supe observes that USNA resources … Mids, facilities, staff, etc. … have been and remain an easy target for misappropriation. The leakage does not result from a broadside hit, but rather many, often well intended, “Why don’t we ask USNA for … space, manpower, pizza-purchases, etc. ad nauseum. After all, we’re a local business built on the appetites of Midshipmen … and we’re a local chapter of HfH and even Jimmy Carter, one of their own, thinks this is meritorious … and the USNA will never again get a Midshipman-of-color from Nashville if the gospel choir fails to show up this winter … and …” All great things, all side-trips to the mission.</p>
<p>Supt. Fowler has shared and begun implementation of his determination to plug and reign in much of the run-off, that it may be<br>
re-reallocated to its intended use. Unfortunately, many of those well-intended garden plots will feel the loss of resource, be it Pizza Hut or Habitat or the Nashville locals that don’t get a local rendering of the Academy gospel singers or … </p>
<p>Many of us and our worthy needs and desires have been written outta the USNA trust fund and it hurts for awhile. But there’s really only one thing that counts in this and it seems those raw junior officers-in-training are the intended and increasingly beneficiaries of our tax bucks.</p>
<p>btw, Adm. Fowler has indicated these changes are NOT the result of orders from higher-ups, but rather a result of his staff’s observations and strategies.</p>