[R. Scott]

This badge earning mania - I've been told the Army jargon for it is "stations of the cross"

In my day it was called “ticket punching”.
Inertia is a product of bureaucracy, and our Army, due to its size is a prime example.

[quadrant]

If the Army spent as much time cutting away the dead wood in its internal organization as it spends trying to come up with gimmicks like this FCS, perhaps there might be hope. As it stands now, its only a matter of time before the Army implodes.
Like General Motors, the Army is an organization that has failed to master change.