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<p>Probably both were correct initially. What many do not realize is that the Navy, and also USNA, is more of a micro environment than the other services. There is probably some truth in the old airdale adage that ‘the AF has 10 manuals that tell you what you can do while the Navy has one that tells you what you cannot do’. Leadership training at USNA is more geared to independent operations than that of other services. Not only to prepare one for command of a destroyer or submarine, but also for the Class of 2003 pilot who is leading his flight division of three other aircraft over Afghanistan and Iraq today. Bottom line, rules and regulations are more flexible and open to more interpretations. The procedure of ‘earning’ neckerchiefs may be totally true in one platoon and never heard of in another. Each unit in the Navy is different. Some are great. Some are horrible. And it can change overnight.</p>