Perhaps, like the airline forums, there should be some form of password to get in? Then we might have less posts starting, 'I'm not in the military, but.....'
This forum does seem to attract an enormous number of people who have nothing whatsoever to do with the military except for a desire to espouse their viewpoint, even if they have no idea about what's being discussed. Perhaps we ought to have some form of acronym filtering to isolate those who don't belong here?