The culture of the armed forces is becoming confused, watered-down, muddled. The pressure of high standards, conformity and discipline can be managed if the culture is unified from top to bottom, and everyone recognizes it.
Now the armed forces culture is being changed, not only will lower standards need to be accepted, but many "diverse" parts will now not fit together, at least under the previous high pressure and discipline culture of the US Armed Forces. it will, in extremes, lead to more cases like this one.
“...confused, watered-down, muddled.”
That’s what concerns me and caused me to speculate that this incident might have been a result of recent changes/events, all unacceptable, IMHO.