[TigersEye]

Why put someone in that position who is 62-63 if 64 is too old?

Unfortunately the answer to that is something very ordinary and all too common. You put him there as a favor and a reward for service so he can put one more command under his belt and retire with a higher pension. It's the one-hand-washes-the-other politics of the top brass.

[Uri’el-2012]

see 43 above