It is because it is mostly the officers, commissioned and warranted, who are in a position of sufficient responsibility and who have the power to make a significant difference, or catastrophic cock-up, in a challenging situation. That is why the system rewards exceptional achievement.
...and in the public sector (military included) manifestly fails to penalise failure. On that note, I see the head of HMRC got another award.
Nutloose may show a bit of bias in his posts, but I think many would agree there is a fair degree of truth in what he has written. In many cases, MoD departments and parts of the military succeed
despite the people at the top, not
because of them.
Oh, and did I mention the blinkers some people seem to wear when posting GS?
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