Derrick Van Orden: “Until again, we hold commissioned officers directly…”

“But during the tap process, I want to make sure that we are holding individual people accountable. So the army, the Navy, the air Force, the DoD, the VA, those are not individuals, those are organizations. So Until again, we hold commissioned officers directly responsible on their fit reps or oers for their promotion or transfer, their servicemen and women are not going to tap until they are held personally accountable. With a big red check mark on that evaluation form, nothing is going to change. On that note, the Department of Defense show up. I'm going to speak directly to the Secretary of defense.” (08:58–09:13)

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