It has to be totally counterproductive. If any normal, emotionally and mentally healthy young man, or woman, had any reservations about joining the Navy, knowing that they were hiring drag queen influencers to broaden their appeal to the emotionally and mentally unhealthy would be be a deal breaker as far as I am concerned.
This is the Bud Light moment for the Navy. Trying to appeal to a tiny niche audience will drive away their base. Unless they think the pukes (as polite a term as I can come up with) who make up the junior members of the congressional staff are their base.
Our rulers are lucky that the Russians are not the vaunted power they were believed to be and that Chin a has been reluctant to attempt an assault on Taiwan.