If Trump could walk on water, all you would say is, "See? He can't swim."
You've obviously never seen an Army officer's efficiency report. If your OER reads to the effect, "rated officer causes ripples when walking on water", your promotion path was just derailed.
I had a few of those, some worse, too. I shrugged it off, as the unofficial motto of Air Defense Artillery is "We Eat Our Young."
I started out with no intentions of making it a career, hung around for 8 to get a battery command. My boss helped me make up my mind to move to the private sector. lol
He didn't know it, but I had no desire to go to Korea, as I was dating my future wife. No regrets whatsoever.