Dunno bout the other branches, but when I was in the AF you could lose everyone above e5 and 95% of the officers and you wouldn't notice a damned thing, operationally speaking, except easier parking. Nothing but paper-pushing, brown nosing twerps, and/or knob polishers that generate meetings and paperwork that are all too often about ways to cut back on meetings and paperwork.
Dunno bout the other branches, but when I was in the AF you could lose everyone above e5 and 95% of the officers and you wouldn't notice a damned thing, operationally speaking, except easier parking. Nothing but paper-pushing, brown nosing twerps, and/or knob polishers that generate meetings and paperwork that are all too often about ways to cut back on meetings and paperwork.
Exactly. A perfect reflection of the government in a microcosm.