You never hold him accountable for anything. Everything he does wrong, and everything good he fails to do, is never his fault. It's always the fault of someone else - his advisors, the "Uniparty", whatever. And he's not responsible because he was new to the job, blah blah blah.
He cared nothing about the military except when they saluted him. He liked that. Otherwise, he figured most military people were stupid and not worth his time. So he just ignored that part of his job.
@Maj. Bill Martin Ahhh,now you are reduced to projection.
Yeah,I was a career NCO in the US Army,and you were a career Officer. I can't speak for you,but I CAN speak for me,and if *I* had been born a millionaire in a wealthy family,I probably wouldn't have served a day,either. As it was,I was told when I was in the 3rd grade that "You had better do good in school because you are out of the house when you turn 18.",and since I had no relatives,I didn't have many options.
Not that I minded. Once I got in SF I had "found my home",and would have happily remained in uniform until I "aged out" if I had of had that chance. I ended up on permanent physical profile after being medi-evaced from VN,and since I was then off of jump status and out of SF and in the regular army because of it,I took a discharge. I HATED the regular army with a passion. Seemed like everybody spent more time trying to get out of doing anything than they did working,and I just wasn't used to that. As I have written before,I have had 0-3's volunteer to help me fill sand bags in SF when I was a E-5,and in the regular army,the typical 0-3 seemed to think they were princes who were doing you a favor by returning a salute,and you would NEVER see a RA 0-3 filling a sandbag,ever.
I knew I had it GOOD in SF,but I never had any idea how "good" I had it until I had to serve in the RA army.
AND......,given the attitudes of the typical E-1 to E-4 back then,I can't honestly say I blame the officers for acting that way.
Being a NCO was more like being a reform school guard than it was being a soldier back then.