This piece is inspired by an article written by Rear Admiral SY Shrikhande in an earlier issue of Naval Despatch about the inordinate time spent on Command Divisions in a naval station and his efforts to affect a change in thinking change such that the same (or better) results could have been obtained in lesser time if we were not held hostage to the mechanical aspects of parades, forgetting the initial impulses and objectives of any evolution. I feel that Action Messing is a