I checked the bios on these folks. All have fine backgrounds and likely performed at a high level to gain their ranks and positions.
The USAF is a huge organization requiring the talents and skill of people from all disciplines. Every USAF officer, NCO, and enlisted person is important.
That said, slighting TAC is unneccesary. They bagged the TAC guy months ago. Of the general officers hammered in the article, roughly 80%-90% of possible service years between enlistment and the establishment of the ACC was spent in SAC, Logistics, or Space Command.
In my brief four year enlisted career, I spent all of it in TAC. TAC has always had a more relaxed attitude. Lax standards for uniforms, military bearing, discipline, rampant recreational drug use, were all part of the late 1970’s TAC that I knew. Not that it was complete chaos, or something out of M*A*S*H, but there was much more “spit and polish” in SAC than there ever was in TAC. When ACC was formed and given the nuclear mission, I think more of the TAC culture survived than the SAC culture.
It was understandable, since like M*A*S*H, TAC was known for it’s TDYs and forward deployments, while SAC stayed on the same base day in and day out, painting the same rock over and over again. LeMay put the Fear of God into the SAC culture, and given the graveness of their job as the ultimate deliverers of Mutually Assured Destruction, it called for a certain level of taking your mission seriously.