If you took every Marine from every base including supply and maintenance depots, boot camps, and troops on ship you could only muster 220,000 troops. That's all there are and you have just stripped America of most of her ready deployment capability.
It's not that there aren't idiot or treasonous Generals. There are. But the story you refer to is another case of globalist media manufacturing a slur after being lectured accurately on the functions of different sectors of the military.
The general in question had an incomplete quote taken out of context.
Semper Fidelis.
“The general in question had an incomplete quote taken out of context.”
Truth spoken here.