Of course all that’s pretty reasonable and practical.
It’s the unfitting, unfair, unnecessary behind the scenes political censure of folks on the other side of one’s perspective that stinks.
Yes, to the extent that a chaplain is selected for promotion by backroom agreements rather than by being the most fit, that is evidence of corruption.
As I mentioned earlier, though, there are some needs of the chaplaincy in terms of having a broad variety of chaplains that will have them elevate a fully qualified chaplain above another equally qualified chaplain of a different group.
If you need roughly 180 Southern Baptist chaplains out of 1200 because the US population is roughly 15% Southern Baptist, and you currently have 360 Southern Baptists on active duty, then the only way for that Southern Baptist is to be “best qualified” rather than just being “fully qualified.”
It’s a tough thing to try to be somewhat proportional in one’s hiring and promoting, but the needs of the soldiers must outweigh everything else.