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There are multiple "active" (with live fire) military engagements underway, not just in the ME but in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, and after blowing their wad in a useless "show of bragging" in Iran, their stocks are low.

There might be "precedent" during "peace time" but we're not IN "peace time".

Send his ass on a USO tour (which is privately funded) and leave what we have left alone.

I had a coworker who was a Lt. Colonel and Reservist in the army who did her once a months, and once a year "summer camp" and she would complain that they never had enough ammunition to even train with.

Right now, you have troops in carrier groups out on the seas of the ME who have posted pics of their sparse meals. I.e., they apparently don't have enough rations to feed sailors on those 4000-person aircraft carriers and have halted package deliveries to them that are trying to supplement what little they have. THOSE pics become the NEGATIVE P.R. for any recruiting efforts.

And THAT is the kind of dysfunction that is going on in "real life".