Having a long career in the military, I disagree. It is very positive for morale and discipline to permit individuality as much as possible. One of the great historical advantages of the US military has been the independent thinking of its troops. In contrast the soldiers of other nations are brow beat into lockstep, and that actually makes them predictable and afraid to find solutions in the middle of difficulty. They always try to get approval before they do anything toward achieving the objective on their own.
Chaplain, I understand. I later had this thought: “Did the corporal have the source of the passage listed on her e-mail, thus identifying it from the Bible?” I will venture the comment that if she had NOT provided the source (Isaiah 54:17), would anyone have recognized it as being from the Bible?
Also, I had thought she was putting this on the bottom of all the e-mails she was sending out. In re-reading this story I realize I was wrong. I thus am no in agreement with you as to why should she have had to remove it from the edge of her computer screen, where she would be the main person seeing it.