Answer the following question: Read the bio below and try to give details on harold hering 's: - battles - unit - birth date - name - branch - rank Bio: major harold l. hering -lrb- born 1936 -rrb- is a former officer in the united states air force , who was discharged for questioning the process for launching nuclear missiles . hering served in vietnam in the air rescue service . 21 years into his air force career , while serving as a minuteman missile crewman and expecting a promotion to lieutenant colonel , he posed the following question during training at vandenberg air force base in late 1973 : the single integrated operational plan specifies that , when the national command authority issues an order to use nuclear weapons , the order will filter down the chain of command . per the siop , decision-making is the responsibility of the nca , not of officers lower in the chain of command , who are responsible for executing on nca decisions . to ensure no opportunity for execution by a rogue operator , the two-man rule requires that at each stage , two operators independently verify and agree that the order is valid . in the case of the minuteman missile , this is done by comparing the authorization code in the launch order against the code in the sealed authenticator , a special sealed envelope which holds the code ; if both operators agree that the code matches , the launch must be executed . journalist ron rosenbaum claimed hering 's question exposed a flaw in the very foundation of this doctrine : rosenbaum says that the answer is that launch would indeed be possible : to this day , the nuclear fail-safe protocols for executing commands are entirely concerned with the president 's '' identity '' , not his sanity . hering was pulled from training and , unable to receive a reply to his satisfaction , requested reassignment to different duties . instead , the air force issued an administrative discharge for '' failure to demonstrate acceptable qualities of leadership '' . hering appealed the discharge , and at the air force board of inquiry , the air force stated that knowing whether or not a launch order is lawful is beyond the executing officer 's need to...
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- battles is vietnam war- unit is air rescue service- birth date is 1936- name is harold l. hering- branch is 20px united states air force- rank is major