Courtney Massingale has replaced Sam Damon in our actions. Risk takers are admired, but rarely emulated. Officers putting values and others ahead of self are quickly forced out of the mainstream. Those that remain in the Army adopt the real values of the careerist organization and continually reinforce a kind of risk averse do-loop. Excesses in political correctness are believed more virtuous that the rendering of objective facts.
Every example is one of rampant careerism.
The prevailing opinion in the Pentagon of risk aversion, when it is discussed at all, is that it is either a result of the downsizing that was forced upon the Army or a result of declining budgets. This conveniently puts the blame on factors external to the Army and avoids any culpability on the part of the leaders. Others assume that when the downsizing stops, the careerism and zero defects will also stop and things will return a pre-Gulf War normalcy. This is also not true. The Army, like any public organization, creates policies to improve organizational effectiveness.