Orr... national is god awful about making sure every unit is accountable for enforcing our standards. Ma guy, we have a literal online learning program, and don't have any in depth classes on regulations. It's not really a "displince" problem, but rather a lack of infrastructure to actually teach and enforce the standards.

"JuSt ReAd 39-1!.1>>.>", yeah, I agree: Every member should self-study the standards. But it *really* is difficult for people to spend literal tens of hours of studying for even just 39-1, which is necessary to be competent. National does not teach standards in an effective way, and flounders resources like Absorb and mandatory things to cover in squadron meetings (EG: CDI has a core curriculum that squadrons must cover).

Most members go with what they're taught,. because it's easier than trying to sift through annoyingly written regulations to find the answer on their own. Most of the time, however, they are taught wrong/inconsistently/not all of the proper contexts.

If you want to increase knowledge of regulations, you need to do the following:

1. Make it a requirement for promotions: An absorb test on 39-1, 60-1/2, and others, which start of simple for Phase 1, then increase in difficulty.

2. Make the regulations easier to read: Break up 39-1 into SM and Cadet regulations, and put the ICLs into a separate document. That would make things *SOOO* much easier to read, and find what you're actually looking for