"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message

Powerful friends who helped him shirk his duties, helped him overcome
any bad press he was going to get from his commander.

In the several years prior to this supposed failure to report, he
accumulated ten to twenty times the number of points required to remain in
good stead in each year. He flew often. Isn't it just possible that he was
beginning to concentrate on his political career during that last year?

Max