All of this was policy-driven.......
One of the driving policies of the Corps Program: To become a great leader you must be an obedient follower (paraphrased). Obedience to leadership (....i.e. spiritual marine corps....) was tantamount to one's learning how to obey God's voice, holy spirit within. If you couldn't "listen, remember and obey" the corps leaders, how could you possibly be entrusted when God spoke revelation to you and have the discipline to obey His instructions? Every campus had its structure of obedience rules. The Indiana campus corps were instructed to always have a wooden spoon in their back pocket......to remind the kids, any one who needed reproof, who held authority. At LEAD, the final report of one's "spiritual test in the wilderness" was wholly scripted from the corps policy of "obedience."
The underlying fault lines of the corps training.........were mapped by a skewering of the scriptures. Wierwille's incompetence was NOT the problem: his agenda and policy-driven mandates underscored the cumulative effect of hardened, inept corps grads that were later placed in leadership positions. Everything wrong that was instituted in the corps program personified the pathologies of victor paul wierwille.
The rise and fall of twi........was greatly hastened by the corps program.