SLF.
Sorry. You are quite out of line. You have a pov, yes, but let's look at it more closely.
1. You are a line pilot flying for AF? How did you become so adamantly conversant with SOPs?
2. Explain how you have conclusively linked "Senior" with "Command"?
3. Captain issued orders that were followed. Smells like "Command" to me.
Defense? Because of your powerful and irrefutable pronouncements, I am interested in the trail of thought that produced them.
Seriously.