As far as the "it's not needed" argument goes, this program isn't needed now. But it may be needed someday. And if it's needed it takes 4 years to spool it up. That's an eternity in a staffing timeline. Why wait until it is needed to start it?

You know what else isn't needed, but we do anyway? Vets in Blue. We have lots of applicants independent of that. We should axe that program since "it isn't needed."

We should just stop hiring anyone other than regional guys. We have plenty of them applying to meet the demand, so why hire military and corporate guys? They aren't needed.

OR, we can all appreciate that we all took different paths to get here, and stop being jerks to each other.