philly rabbit
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Rank, education, training, and accomplishments. This is not really a matter of brass vs. common soldiers. Senior NCOs/Petty Officers are just as prone to political BS as are generals. I find that E-6s and E-7s will engage in the most pointless resumé building initiatives around the unit to make rank.
A good officer puts his men before any selfish advancements and political favoritism. There are no good officers in the pentagon. There are instead, politicians in uniforms. The good officers are the line officers who have to endure the directives of the yes men in the pentagon and at the same time work with what they get from the higher ups in Washington while they at the same time try to keep their units in battle shape and conduct operations at a minimum loss of casualties.
But nobody cares about their problems or their jobs when you're pushing social engineering with homos and women from the top.
And I predict that measures such as benefits for homos and the watering down of combat requirements for the troops in order to allow social change in an institution that solely exists to defend the country against it's enemies will backfire and will result in many U.S. deaths on account of it.
The country is constantly at war and that isn't the fault of the line officers or the common soldiers under them either but it does reflect on the pentagon and the military industrial complex that pentagon serves under directives from the civilian authorities in Washington.