Well, we see things differently, that much is certain.
I’m a firm believer in mission accomplishment, based in militancy. If the mission is accomplished with pudgy Boy Scouts, I don’t care, they have succeeded. But if a mission fails, I also do not care if the individuals responsible are physically fit. They have failed the mission. They are failures.
That obese supply sergeant I mentioned not only prevented a disaster, he turned it into a great success, that *nobody* else was able to do. No doubt this LTG had a bounty of physically fit supply personnel, NCO’s and officers, available to him. But none of them could do what this supply sergeant could do. Not a one.
You want to lower standards, even for our existing NCOs when they start refusing to follow them.
We have 314 million people today, and a tiny military, but now suddenly we must lower the standards to maintain a skilled and competent military?
No we don’t.