The senior officers are better aligned with their goals now than they have been in a long time. We've decided that two weeks of daily courses aren't an immersive enough experience to motivate students to push for change outside the classroom, so we decided to develop an immersive residential experience. We're creating an area on the campus where officers can live while they learn. We took over one of the buildings formerly used for housing visiting senior officers, and we're turning it into an enclave where our students will live, eat, and learn for the duration of the class. Well, the center brings the school a lot of good press and prestige.
People talk about the center in speeches.
So people with the school see the value of the center, even if they initially didn't like my methods. Besides, the superintendent has taken one of my courses. So I have at least one champion there. It's a slow process, but the navy's wheels are in motion. One of the officers' primary suggestions was that the navy become a real meritocracy.