His comment on West Point was really out of line. I am reminded of "The Caine Mutiny" and tend to think of Barney Greenwald's talk about Captain Queeg he made to the officers of the USS Caine. He speaks of how that while there were going to fancy colleges, working good jobs and generally showboating around, the Captain Queegs were guarding this fat dumb country. For us, the service was not good enough and we knew we could not make any money in the service.
For Mathews, the military is below him and his dignity. I'd like to remind Cris Mathews that he has a lucrative job running his mouth because a bunch of rednecks with a Prussian mentality provided that opportunity.
Good analogy. Matthews has no idea what our people in the military go through just as those young officers had no idea what Queeg had been through.