This happens all the time. It happened when I was in the Army in 1970. (not to me) If a soldier is not talented enough to move up in rank, s/he should not stay at that rank for 15-20 years. Make room for other more talented soldiers to move up to their ranks.
It happens in business (up or out). It happens in sports.
It happens on this scale upon the end of a war (Korea, Vietnam, Cold War) when we shrink the force. What is sad is that we will need them again when Barry’s chickens come home to roost and we need to grow the force rapidly again. Look what happened to Ted Williams and his peers 5 years after WWII
This article claims it is because of sequestration. The only area of government that actually has to shrink is the military. Everything else gets to keep bloating beyond our ability to EVER sustain it.
At some point the top dogs in the military need to look at how Obama has lifted and helped our terrorist enemies in every way possible, and has shafted Americans - ESPECIALLY in the vital functions that the Constitution mandates, such as military and border enforcement - and realize that Obama is a foreign enemy combatant, put into the White House through the crimes of his puppet-masters for the express purpose of destroying this country from within. And then they need to do something about it.