Remember Viet Nam - the Democrats did this same thing to President Ford.
I was once a soldier. We were actually the Div Ready Force 1 Company (B Co, 1/508) for our Battalion in the 3rd Brigade, 82d Abn Div.; and were headed to the cattle trucks in the B Lane around 3 a.m. when a Jeep from Div HQ came up asking for the CO. Next thing we knew we were told it was too late and those already in the trucks got out and we all went to the Company Day Room. Div HQ sent two old TVs down and we watched the news reels of the Kaos. Our plan if you could call it one, was to jump (parachute) into a park north of the AmEmb with 1st, 2d &3d Platoons (line doggies/Infantry) to dig in to the tree line and us in 4th Platoon (Weapons Platoon) were to dig in and lay fields of fire for the motors and 106/90mm recoilless anti tank guns.
Carter cut the fuel and we walked and walked everywhere - 6 miles to greenramp for jumps, 12 miles back from Sicily DZ, etc. He turned the heat off in the barracks until it was below 35 degrees outside. What a God Awful President Carter was.
I always thought Carter would remain the worst president in US History, but the woke joke Biden far surpassed the shear incompetence - along with divisiveness today, President Carter seems saintly.
I love that description and detail like it was yesterday. I have so many of the same type of scenarios when I was in the Army.