A person is responsible for his own hatting. Dept 1 is also responsible.

Drills have several purposes. To groove in a team action is a principal one. To test a system fully. To groove in lines.

As lack of full hatting is the WHY of declining organization it is very important that persons be fully hatted.

Whenever postings are changed, the new post holders have to be grooved in on their posts (hatted and on-post trained) and then the team itself must be drilled.

The gradient is instant hatting, mini hatting and full hatting.

The two steps are always needed.

A person found on a post who is not fully hatted is liable to ethics action.

There’s a maxim about all training that applies. It is this: TRAINING MUST INCLUDE ALL THE ACTIONS AND APPROXIMATIONS OF THE ACTUAL.

Awareness of the scene does not seem to exist in the absence of hatting. Thus unhatted persons look sort of blind.

This includes of course the whole cycle of an actual sequence of actions. It’s the sequence that counts.

For instance, an unhatted Dissem Div is completely unaware of no money, no students, no pcs.

The drilling of sequences of actions is a stable series of data that prevents chaos from overwhelming one.

It’s sort of strange. Mystery about the post seems to result in no perception of its environment. Mystery on post equals mystery of environment. You see this as a sort of frightened no confidence.

This applies to org lines as well. Dummy runs and dummy bullbait runs serve as the drill.

I think hatting even changes eyesight. We ought to test it out.

We already know that unhatted people get hurt more than hatted people. We know overts stem from misunderstoods. And we know running overts changes eyesight.

It then probably follows that unhatted people couldn’t see a tiger if it was biting them!

So, how to be mystified by it all and afraid — remain unhatted.

Get hatted and see.

[Note: The original mimeo copies of this policy letter were incorrectly numbered as Personnel Series 38.]