Firstly the letter is appalling. It was written so badly that the recipients thought it was a joke or someone was using the author's name. Many of you have identified the errors and some of you have realised that the letter is disjointed and all over the place.
Secondly I seriously wonder how he managed to pass his general paper. I can only assume that he did it by rote, a striking feature of our education system.
It was a simple case of AWOL and the failure of the local command to address it adequately. It could have been easily expressed with the aid of bullets points or indented paragraphs. He also mentioned things that should not be there but should have been mentioned in subsequent correspondence if the issue was not remedied. The repetition of issues were also prominent. The guy in the spotlight was only a LT not some high ranking individual that was entrusted with authorisation to launch missiles.
It was so badly written that more than one recipient released the content to the outside world thinking it was a joke. And it was a joke for more than week until they made contact with him.
The newly appointed AG when he was an OCT wrote a letter of complaint when he witnessed an abuse of authority by a very senior officer. The complaint letter was short, succinct but the words and sentence structure was powerful yet appropriate. He followed protocol and addressed it to the appropriate superior. The Sr Officer was asked to respond to the allegation and this guy turned out to be a clown. In his response, he used words and parts of sentences from the original letter and basically it smacked of plagiarism as he too wanted to show his command of the language or the lack of it. He was found guilty and disciplined. The whole thing was done in good time.
He is now the AG and the only difference between him and the other author was that the former spent his formative years of schooling in NZ. To me it is the education system that seemed to have failed. The vets here can tell the difference but the newer generation can't as they have no idea what good looks like.