[Norm Lenhart]

You just don’t understaaAAAaaannndddd!!!!

Poll tested focus groups show that 4 out of 5 military brass recommend going along to get along rather than stand for their beliefs.

And that’s what matters. Because it makes liberals and psuedocons ‘feel good’ about themselves.

[Old Sarge]

Also Taxpayer-funded Pension, Taxpayer-funded Health Care, and a Taxpayer-funded dacha by the lake as a reward for doing their Socialist duty.

Sound familiar, Comrade? Now eat your peas, the line for toilet paper forms over there...

[cookcounty]

"Poll tested focus groups show that 4 out of 5 military brass recommend going along to get along rather than stand for their beliefs."

I'm probably going to catch some not-so-friendly fire from this, but This is one of the negative side effects of the all-volunteer "career" military. There are lots of careerists who are simply bureaucrats in uniform: Afraid to lose their promotion/job/pension/position/security-blanket.