Thanks for the incoming TT
No it doesn't make me an expert and I,m not commenting on any individual, but I do feel that the US military way of taking America around the world with them deprives US servicemen of some worthwhile exposure to the country they are serving in. I know (and work with) many US aviators and they are all top blokes, but they would be the first to admit that the ex mil US guys believe that the world revolves around DC and that the rest of the world should keep in step. That attitude is arrogant and wrong and the US military (for its own good reasons) does nothing to check it.