Editing Trench code (section)

==Communications discipline==
American code makers were often frustrated by the inability or refusal of combat units to use the codes—or worse, to use them properly. Lt. Col. Frank Moorman, reviewing U.S wireless intelligence in 1920. wrote:
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That will be the real problem for the future, to make the men at the front realize the importance of handling codes carefully and observing "foolish" little details that the code man insists on. They cannot see the need of it and they do not want to do it. They will do anything they can to get out of it. My idea would be to hang a few of the offenders. This would not only get rid of some but would discourage the development of others. It would be a saving of lives to do it. It is a sacrifice of American lives to unnecessarily assist the enemy in the solution of our code.<ref name=friedman1942/> {{rp|p.269}}
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