What would happen to these folks if you parachuted them into Afholistan with a pack of MREs a rifle a kabar and told them to conduct surveillance while remaining cover.
At the same time it sounds like the military is having a really hard time figuring out how to operate through a health crisis, e.g. the Teddy Roosevelt.
I get the problem. The peacetime qualities that lead to promotion are bureaucratic rule-following and being a workaholic operating without sleep and without regard for personal health. You are expected to tough out illnesses or lack of sleep however deleterious for overall mission effectiveness.
The two seem to be on full display in our operating forces inability to figure out how to operate and keep people healthy so they can operate.
Sending them home? This is their home.
I worked as a contract employee in an Air Force setting for twenty years, and yes, I came away believing that those are essentially the required qualities, in addition to whatever other skills and training one brings to the job. I could never do it; it's too stultifying on a personal level.