Sounds like you are a girl scout.
verity,
I am in a Reserve unit where half the officers are West Pointers. They all have their own personal reasons they didn’t stay on active duty. For you to lump and disparge these soldiers the way you did is just as wrong as for me to say all Vietnam vets were pot smoking draftees who couldn’t get a college deferrment.
For the time frame when I was on active duty, I did my time in the first gulf war and Somalia. Some people are selected to go to war and some aren’t, it is what it is. I wonder what percentage of active duty field grade officers haven’t been to Iraq or Afghanistan.