I suspect he was reading what he was directed to by the politicos and media types.
Whether or not? The piece was quite short and a good staff officer (one assumes he has been to staff college) would have rehearsed an ability to speak without referring to notes for a much longer period than the good 1SL did on this occasion
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Let's just say that his performance on this occasion goes against the 2 quotes that I referred to earlier. Especially:
It is the quality of his mind and leadership that people want to follow ...............
Foldie
PS. Anyway, why are we discussing boats on an Aircrew (yep, and all those others who support them, like looking at them and wanna be a pilot etc etc) Forum?