Let's face facts: our military is broken. It's just not destroying stuff at the rate it used to. Despite simultaneous, neverending wars, too many servicemembers are shuffling through their hitches, rarely or never firing a weapon after Basic Training, not blowing up a single village or killing a single person, never laying waste to so much as a goat pen.
What we need is REFORM! We've got to change the way the military does business, get rid of the entrenched interests, and send our lower enlisted personnel back to the job of helping other folks die for their countries.
REFORM OUR MILITARY NOW!!! We need MERIT PAY for soldiers! We need to GET RID OF SENIORITY so that our officers are always motivated to do their best! We need to STRIP THE PROFESSIONALS WHO SERVE US OF ANY AND ALL DIGNITY, because very important research has shown that they're the reason our armed forces have fallen so far behind!
Follow me over the cliff for even more MILITARY REFORM (that's not REALLY A METAPHOR for what's happening in EDUCATION)!