What happened to the paper-less army?

We push for a digital system and sustainability through accountability.  Security is always an issue, but in general it has much to do with training soldiers how to keep things digital, and more importantly, training our senior leadership how to adapt to the digital world that our youngsters already live in. Typically a unit is paper based because someone in the system is not good/organized with computers (ie the guy with 560 shortcuts on his desktop), the unit has been paper based forever and the senior leadership utilizes the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, or there is a bureaucratic system in place within your unit where you have multiple people wanting to have eyes on the same document.

The idea of a paper trail is a joke, how many times have I turned in a leave form and for it to get sucked into the nothing (Never-Ending story reference), just to have S1/leadership later claim I never turned it in. Accountability is a key factor, and the last thing I want to do is start issuing hand receipts for turned in paperwork.

This is where the digital format of paper makes more sense, you can establish a pretty secure and accurate paper trail by keeping things online/email.

You're just asking for trouble to think that the military can handle a paperless system. They do a poor enough job with paper, but can you imagine the nightmare that would cause due to a system crash. At least with a paper trail one can eventually piece everything back together, if a virus gets into the system, well Sorry Charlie. 

I personally do not like the digital army, its a pain in my rear. not everyone can afford their smartphone and ipods or whatever.