No. “Automatic release” is a contradiction in terms. It could happen, but it would take something like the Secretary of Defense ordering it. Or a White House d

No. “Automatic release” is a contradiction in terms. It could happen, but it would take something like the Secretary of Defense ordering it. Or a White House directive. The folks at my level, or at any level I can actually talk to, don't have the authority. The thing is, they aren't making these policies and procedures up just to be dense. There are real, hard and fast laws and department-wide policies that require the system to look the way it does.