These issues need discussion.

I do find it amazing, however, that my good NCOs and I felt the same way after Vietnam, a hundred years ago. We were saddled with McNamara's 100k as NCOs. We "couldn't" let them leave the Army because we were "too understrength". So we re-enlisted them and promoted them. THEN Thurman's all recruited force started coming in the bottom end and the challenges were HUGE. Highly talented and intelligent privates were consistently outperforming half of their leaders. Ouch.

Just another challenge to leadership.