[quadrant]

Only two things I don't like about this guy.
First, he's been through airborne training, and there is no indication in his bio that he was ever assigned to a unit that requires that sort of training.
Unless one is assigned to a unit that jumps, there is no reason for a Marine to earn paratrooper wings.
Unfortunately, the Army's tendency to collect badges has seeped over into the Marine Corps.

Secondly, he has a Master's degree. There is no particular reason an officer needs to go graduate school. A better place to spend a year or so would be in command of an operational unit.
Again, the Army's practice of sending officers to earn graduate degrees has seeped into the Corps.

[A Simple Soldier]

You win stupidest post of the day.

Re: His wearing of the Parachutist Badge. Airborne school is both a technical skill school and a leader development school. A man who will jump out of a perfectly good airplane with a parachute on his back, packed by a complete stranger, shows a disposition toward confidence, trust and physical courage.

Re: His going to graduate school and earning a Masters Degree, consider this quote,

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
-Thucydides

Thucydides wrote a book. Try reading it.