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Never served (After Vietnam/Middle-East hypocrisy how could you trust politicians and the top brass) but spent 24 years around the military. Most are just in their branch of choice for the government beanies/the 20 year or plus (More retirement beanies) “Holy Grail”; “doing it” for country is the last thing on their minds.

Also, the corporate culture is a lot more honest after one reaches Major status (Or the equivalent in the Navy) or high enlisted status, the amount of backstabbing and flaunting the peacocks is obscene. Add the feminism and homosexual virtue signaling stuff and you have a full fledged Peter Principle bureaucratic cluster f* that has spent trillions and 17+ years trying to figure out how to beat radicalized farmers that barely grasp what the Bronze Age is all about.

This stuff made me question the whole DOD especially the many times I wrote my wife's OPR (Bullet point hell) to give the her commanding officer. So, you can be the most inbelcilic solider, however, the officer or enlisted over you will make sure the evaluation of the imbecile is "shiny, bright, and filled with positive adjectives" because the commanding officer or enlisted personnel do not oversee failures and need to promote as well.

Waited to after 12 my time to write this because Memorial Day is an important day to recognize all those who have fallen to preserve freedom. The OP's post provides an important commentary to contemplate and a call to change the internal structure/attitude.