A bit like the JT, probably someones only claim to fame in the military and used as a backboard for his advancement, but in the end pointless and expensive.
All those new ranks to produce, all the literature from QR's down to amend and for what, to have a rank that is in all intent the same, but just wearing a different badge and called a different name, while making removing the progression chain and sense of it all to the rank of Chief Tech.