Chennault was regarded as a loose cannon rather than the hero that he was. Policy and doctrine were not going to be changed on his account.
I've seen a few BoB pilots say on video that learning to switch from close vics to loose fours was one of the most costly lessons yet when their group was rotated out and new guys brought in. It was everyone else's job to clue the new guys in meaning no one was given the job so no one did it. The new guys had to learn the hard way. And the new ones after them. That's how it went. They didn't need radio or telephones, just stop and talk about hard lessons before going off to much-needed R&R and still it didn't happen.
When the works drops in the pot, the training takes over. However hard you trained, that's how hard it is to change.
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