Dismiss your good officers?

[Cerberus]

You're asked to let your best people go - but there is always the other side of the coin.

All armies & navies throughout time have had people who were F*&k-ups.

Mostly, you couldn't just fire them, but you could try to post them on to another unit so some other poor sod has to put up with them.

A very funny guy called Spike Milligan wrote a full account of his war-time experiences in the British Army.

He said some of these poor souls spent the entire war being posted from one unit to another - one guy gave his address as the back of a lorry (truck).

If you managed to get rid of Bernard, good luck! - but remember, in return you get some-one else's F*&k-up.