This question has also been put the Consim World PG Support forum and the APL Support Forum.
The issue came to be
Alaska's War #1 when Drew moved a timid, but otherwise capable sergeant from the town onto a forward
INF platoon. Obviously to move his DF shot to the next column (7). The agreement on the spot was to accept the move. (For my part, if the rules don't say you can't, or confine to a specific process, then you can.) We also agreed to refer this to public and hopefully APL staff arbitration. BtW: He got an 'M' result on my stack, all of whom passed the check.
Thus far, Fred has been the only respondent on ConSim. He repeated the same view as expressed here, or repeated here what he said on COnSim. (I don't care whether the chicken or the egg came first, dinner is on the table.) If anything official comes up, I'll pass it on here.