Even he fought the same battles in his day. Sad, but it takes a war on our shores to create a fighting military.
There was a time the USAF had a Mission ... to be prepared to ram a thermonuclear suppository up the back end of the Evil Empire ... “and additional duties as assigned”.
It’s no longer got that mission ... and, as others wiser than I have observed, when you don’t know where you’re going, any course is as good as any other.