He lost me at paragraph 5. using one of the left’s favorite pejorative rhetorical terms: “haters”.
No sale, ‘Rudy Mac’.
Nice try though.
And good luck with captain or major, this article should help.
I’m no fan of that term myself and I attribute it mostly to being an artifact of the writer’s age, guessing late 20s.
Your post says it all.
You can bet on it.