[Aliska]

If that's the game they are playing, it will backfire. You know more about how things really work than I do. I assumed it was all based on merit and qualifications for the job, at least that's the way it should be. The good old boy system a threat to our nation. Really, it has no place in a country like ours.

[txradioguy]

I agree that it's not right, but it's something that's been "institutionalized" within the military. I don't know for a fact, but I'd wager the same thing happens in the other service branches. The oficers who came from the service academy's are told from the start they are the best of the best. Hopefully we'll go back to the promotion of someone based on "merit" that my beloved military talks so much about.