This doesn’t suprise me - from USNA the aviation committment came from flight school post USNA and not at the service selection that occurred the last year of USNA. Same thing was true of the additional Nuc school committment for the officers that attended that.
The Army was basically allowing the investment to slide and are now holding them to the same standard. The fact that they didn’t enforce it to begin with is the real issue here.
I agree. What is to be answered in the future is why? Was this really an "oversight" or was it deliberate so as to attract people to serve in the Army? And now, that there is a recruitment shortage, the Army decides that a "mistake" was made?