. >> and john alden. >> john alden, several civilian employees in the office, as well as sworn personnel throughout the department. >> president turman: thank you very much for your excellent work, especially on the base document. we really appreciate your hard work. >>> thank you sir. so you know the process was -- really, when i looked at it, there was really three themes, i guess you will: how do we make it more efficient, how do we make the -- the policy more transparent, if you can, and -- and accountable? and you know, there's really four things that i'd like to hit on as it relates to the draft that you have now. you know, when we're looking at the plot, the draft that you have now, it's important that we go out and look at best practices as far as what agencies were doing. not for content, but for process. how were other agencies doing it efficiently? how were they keeping their general orders up to date. so we looked at that, and that was important. the take away was we can do some things better. so you know we looked at best practices, incorporated those practices into the draf