And I didn’t know “delegable” was a word.

Sure it is, just like my favorite word from the first Gulf war: “attritted.”

The DoD isn’t the only organization that performs these charades. Back in 2002 the state law in New York was changed so that a person could get a driving learner’s permit at 16 but couldn’t get a license until age 16 and six months. (Previously one could get the permit at 16 and the license at the next scheduled road test.) The law wasn’t supposed to go into effect until 2003 but the road test examiners decided they’d start enforcing it right away. Nobody that took a road test before their 16 1/2th birthday passed that year.

Dave