CREATING CANDOR Published June 4, 2012 By Bob Cowart via e-mail -- Wow! The Spring 2012 issue of Torch is fantastic! I was most impressed with the articles "No Clowning Around" (cover story) and "What Goes TDY, Stays TDY" (page 8). Rarely do you see a military publication use such candor. Excessive partying while TDY has long been an issue, but I can't recall seeing it addressed by the service. And while flight discipline issues have always been around, the story you presented gave specific examples and even talked about the discipline doled out to the offenders. Sometimes the services have a tendency to sugar-coat things (at least publicly), but I felt, in these two examples, that you didn't hold back. These are the type of straightforward, honest, no-nonsense articles that will grab the attention of service members and hopefully make a difference in reducing injuries and fatalities. Hope you're allowed to continue taking on controversial but important subjects. Great work!