I have no patience with the fools who pass themselves off as Army generals these days. If they were at all competent there wouldn’t have been two (and counting) Fort Hood massacres.
The massacres likely occurred because some general or other refuses to have gate guards wand everyone who passes through. Ties up traffic you know. But it may also have something to do with the way everyone in the Army now dresses alike—laced desert boots and all.
Used to be you could tell the riflemen (not to mention the Airborne) from the clerks and the bottle washers.
Today there’s no obvious difference and you’d best believe the pogies (the c&bw boys and girls) like it just fine that way. Must give the military police pause, wondering who they’re dealing with.
My cousin-in-law, an Army dentist (he’s moved on to private practice now) really liked the way civilians in the groceries deferred to him as if he were a combat veteran of Iraq and/or Afghanistan. He looked like one. He did, mercifully, reconstruct the jaws of some of the ones who were seriously wounded over there, but he sure as hell didn’t fight with them.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Yeah, reminds me of the way some non-combat characters here get hold of red paratroopers’ boots to impress the ladies… usually they get easily distinguished by their highly polished ones…