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Would it be practical to push down promotions, up to Col., down to TC, AC, DC, CC, DC, which one? Or should it remain with the CoA?
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Personally, I would much rather see a centralized system where the rules are applied to everyone equally (whether it be equally wrong or equally right).
Col Ned Simms
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I agree with Ned that it should not be done below the AC level, but would be best done, universally, by one person or group.
Right now, Don Adams has a system that is functioning automatically, to a large extent. It is doing, as far as I can see, the same thing as the Love system was doing. I would guess the COA's are getting the point information from the "system". I do NOT know how things like discretionary points are being input into the system.
It is necesary to maintain, IMO, a couple of things. One is a complete backup, to include the ability to get the "system" back up running if something catastrophic happens to the original. (Like a complete HD/computer meltdown.) Two, some type of corrobration of the point totals.
The second point, could be the TC, COA or the AC's or, in the case of the TC's or COA's, a delegated person. This would, by definition, be a manual system, with input from the same raw data that goes into the auto system.
The first point should be someone within each army, perhaps, to receive the entire auto system on at least a monthly basis, so that there is a protection from catastrophic failure of the original. Then, at the most, only 4 weeks of data would have to be manually done to bring the auto system back online.
It seems to me that the point system, regardless of the method, auto or manual, is an integral and vital part of the club, no matter how much we hear that "I only play for the fun of it".
<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
LtGen, CO XXIII Corps, AoO
President, Colonial Campaigns Club
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