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Change Of Command Traditions In The Marine Corps
Many traditions are practiced in the Marine Corps that pass down the legacy from one generation to another. Some of these traditions are antiquated, a waste of time and irrelevant and some are valuable to our espirit de corps that builds comradery. Whichever the case those that do not get practiced enough that do build that comradery need to be practiced more and the traditions that are a waste of time should no longer be practiced. Change of command ceremonies is a tradition that should be eliminated so that the time, resources and personnel utilized to make these ceremonies happen can be distributed to other areas in order to improve training quality, unit cohesiveness and overall unit readiness.
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