Well, gee. No big surprises here other than that the AmLeg Folks were dumbfounded that the backlog was like a plugged up toilet and starting to smell bad. Trust them there VSOs to get to bottom of it-after fifty years. It was MFUTHG¹ when I first went in in 89. Why they took so long to figure it out is a matter of conjecture. Having a bar inside the VSO HQ can make it difficult to find a sober point man.

¹ More f_____ up than Hogan’s Goat.