I think this is how it happens, how a general rationalizes caving in:
“The guy who will replace me is REALLY bad, and will be totally gung-ho for homos and girls in combat. At least I can slow it down. So I’ll stay in until I get my 30 and retire without a fuss.”
Hackworth knew what to call them: Perfumed Princes. I’d add Political Prostitutes.
GOs attending too many academia symposiums and D.C. Cocktail parties. That’s where most of this crap gets its steam. That, and we have an army of secular humanist executive level civil servants infecting the DoD, calling the shots and feeding these guys their pablum.