I’m surprised he wasn’t promoted to admiral by the POSOTUS. The CIC has been weeding out patriots for the time when the military’s guns are turned on us ‘peasants’.
I’m confused by the concept of a 44 year old Ensign. That’s twice the age of his contemporaries, and well beyond the maximum commissioning age of a new-intake Ensign. Even medical doctors have to be commissioned prior to their 40th birthday, and they come in at a higher rank than Ensign, commensurate with their longer schooling. It sounds like he just wanted to say he served, like Johnson did during WWII and Kerry did in Vietnam.