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haele

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7. No, the deputy commander will automatically be put in charge.

Reply to randr (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:55 PM

Jan 2017

If there isn't one already, there will be a letter delegating authority to the deputy commander as of noon on January 20,2016 by next Monday.

The good thing about military bureaucracy in the U.S. is that there's always a designated hierarchy that kicks in should anyone in the command structure become incapacitated or is otherwise not available. And authority in the chain of command always reaches down, it does not default up. The President, or Joint Chiefs, or anyone in the DoD executive hierarchy can't just automatically say "Stand aside, I'm in charge".

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