I guess my long-winded point was that the rank-and-file don't know WTF is going on or what the mission will be once they hit ground. Smart leaders will tell their troopies to shut their pieholes and not talk scuttlebutt in front of civilians. Hence the "no election talk".
I think the OP is concluding that since they're being told not to talk about X, X is why they're there. It's a leap of logic, a fallacy commonly committed by the E4 mafia.
I guess my long-winded point was that the rank-and-file don't know WTF is going on or what the mission will be once they hit ground. Smart leaders will tell their troopies to shut their pieholes and not talk scuttlebutt in front of civilians. Hence the "no election talk". I think the OP is concluding that since they're being told not to talk about X, X is why they're there. It's a leap of logic, a fallacy commonly committed by the E4 mafia.