Half of these "medals" I suspect are for such heroic courageous accomplishments such as: "Outstandingly holding a full badder during a one hour briefing without whizzing in ones uniform" or "Superior ass kissing of a low IQ Congressman" or "Special merit for increasing defense contract expenses while pretending to be outraged by cost overruns"

Take your pick.

None of these makes much sense to me for a general or admiral. Especially when we have boots on the ground suffering in the heat and dirty conditions they are enduring in the middle east.

If they feel they need someone to cook for them let them pay for their own cook or go the cafeteria on base somewhere like other service members. Private jets are not cheap to maintain or operate. The only reason I can think of for them having a private jet at their service is if they're flying somewhere that does not have commercial service and they are on military business.

realized that it had to train its generals for their new lifestyle after they retire and start their lobbying careers for the military industrial complex. It takes time. Time and effort. Time, effort and money to train someone how to life high on the hog.

meaning, whatever they're doing is just for show.

"very small number" ("few bad apples&quot

That is all.

accustomed to sweeping things under the rug so as not to "tarnish" the service!

This is the same stuff that happens in every company when bad P.R. stuff emerges. Back to ethics training for everyone else. Yet nothing changes.

I think their pay should be CUT. They should be REQUIRED to mop and do cleaning like regular military members. They should be REQUIRED to BOW to ALL enlisted members since these are the real working members in the military.
If these old timers can not do the physical stuff required then they should be FIRED.
These over promoted, pompous morons do not impress me or OTHERS.

we can thank * for that. Normally, Paetraus would have been lower level senior staff for life, and then retired. It is when the high brass defected (retired) en masse, that * had no choice but to put McKrystal & Paetraus (i dunno if I am spelling their names correctly, don't really care) as top officials in the Iraq & Afghanistan lower-level, junior clerk debacles. Both have proven as to why they would have never be in the history books if all was well in the world. The best and the brightest all said no, I'm not going to do this, I do not want my name attached to the fubar's of all fubar's.