It has to keep changing to fit circumstances. Probably because they were captain of the ship, not because they were necessarily right. But they therefore surmise that they will always be right in their life, forever and ever, amen. And they have all the time in the world to organize each other, talk to each other, work themselves into lather about how it isn't like it used to be, and write letters to the editor, and scream and holler and take pot shots. And nobody likes to get those kind of pot shots.
Nobody likes to read that kind of stuff.
We in politics get used to in. Another day, another 15 pot shots. But in the military, you're really not used to it till you get to that level. And you thought being head of all this was going to be wonderful. You didn't realize it was going to be incoming, incoming the whole day.