I attained the rank of E5 in the USAF.
I don’t have a very high regard for commissioned officers.
I now have a 4 year BS STEM degree and I fail to see why that would make me a better soldier than I was as a Non-Com.
Training is the issue. I can teach an 8th grader to code.
We can teach teenagers to fly a modern jet.
Officers are needed but they should be like a rare bunch of people with highly specialized training.
How to fight a war and win.
That is it.
“I don’t have a very high regard for commissioned officers.”
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You’re saying, in terms of them getting blowed up, your at best neutral, regardless of what army they serve?
“I don’t have a very high regard for commissioned officers”
I heard kind of a reverse story on that told to me by a sailor (merchant ships). Sailors complaining about awful chief mates. What it came down to, he stated, “He just made them do their jobs”