>These are all problems that are slowly working their way up the policy chains. It doesn't matter that the problems are working their way up the policy chains

>These are all problems that are slowly working their way up the policy chains. It doesn't matter that the problems are working their way up the policy chains if they are only going to die when they get to the top. You yourself admitted that they are unlikely to change the culture, and we both know they aren't about to pay a competitive wage to the military. Unfortunately, that leaves us with things exactly the way they are now. The military likes to talk about starting to take various issues seriously, yet it is an exceptionally rare occasion when they actually do.