for that happen or fails to happen in the unit. in units like this we have a small number of troops, commanded by a sergeant, who reports to a lieutenant, who reports to a captain, so on, up the line. there are a person to report to. it s one of the principals of war, unity of command. only work for one person. and you should only report to one person. but it means that, the chain of co ts isue,ll pangteiotoat on in their own unit, very easy to fix. by the way, very easy to prevent in the first place. you were just recently in vietn vietnam, probably brings back a lot of your memories when you served. what are some of the conditions that they have to deal with that may help us understand the extremes that exist? there are extreme but was you train for them. in the middle of combat you are scared out of your pants and
and the other reason why i think the military analogy is valid, i sat down with admiral allen not long ago and he said that only in a military setting can you really have unity of command. you can have unity of effort or unity of purpose, the way things are set up now with the command center, and the federal officials here and bp there and kind of working together. but everything that we hear from the coast o about the success or failure of the containment efforts, about the oil that s now approaching the oil that s now there, suggests to me that a more unified command and a bigger, frankly, deployment of resources is necessary in order to do all that can be done to protect the environment. one of the things that i was asking earlier today is why they have not helped the coast guard out with the navy. i don t know what assets we have, but thad allen has said in the past that if you brought in more ships, you would have a