To be fair, just about everything in the military would be refused if the entire story would he told and the risks better understood. No recruiting station would ever make mission, thousands of dodge challengers would go unsold, nobody would ever volunteer for jump school, or reenlist. Just think of the strippers denied hasty marriages to fresh faced E-3s just wanting to get out of the barracks.
I volunteered for Jump School, I knew the risks.
I was thinking the same thing. Generals operate at the wish of the President. The fact our President is a moron is the problem, not the military lack of a real choice in nearly anything they do.