REALLY!
If you are unfortunate enough to be in the military under this regime... You are knowingly or unwittingly a tool of the Marxist in the white hut.
The Heinlein paradigm only works when patriots are commander in chief.
But the CinC had to have gone throught the same process. Not saying that it would always get the bad guys out, and Heinlein brought up that point, too.
It did show that the person, male or female, was willing to risk his life to serve the country. More than we’ve got, today.
Finally, the veterans may have been in charge, but the active military still had the big guns.