All this time, Wyly continued sending drafts of the campaign plan to Sullivan. He said the first thing the Marine Corps should do was clean up the personnel system and stamp out careerism. He wrote of the need to provide professional education for all Marines, to instill a greater sense of ethics, and to promote for unit cohesion. He stressed the importance of maneuver warfare. Every idea was rejected. Sullivan slashed and edited and kicked back draft after draft for rewriting. He even wrote “Shit” on one version. He summed up his feelings toward Wyly with the greatest insult a fighter pilot
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