Rick B

No officer would ever use it on a memo. It would be dispositive proof of failure to perform or at minimum to report undue influence. Wouldn’t look too hot in a court martial. “I knew it was wrong but I wrote this memo – see.”

Thank you!

The “CYA” jumped out at me for exactly that reason.

I have to say this part of it is as shocking to me as anything, since presumably the staff members dealing with these memos are writers, at least some of them.

Seriously: I probably would only have noticed the problems with the type subliminally, but the “CYA” just smacked me between the eyes.

The entire point of a CYA memo is to CYA.