[DoodleDawg]

Yet another pentagon politician eyeing that pension and perhaps thinking of a post-USMC fling at public office.

She's not asking for an easing in the requirements. She's asking why she can't take a second shot at it when her male counterparts who failed can. What's wrong with that?

[Hulka]

Taking her argument public rather than exhausting the chain-of-command and IG avenues means she was talking out of line, acting contrary to good order and discipline.

If she went up the chain (all the way, to include the CINC), and if she went the IG route, then she could have gone the congressional route. She chose not to. She chose to by-pass the processes and procedures in place and jump right into the public arena.

That is wrong.