I could be alone, but I hate this analogy. Our management team is not analogous in any way to senior military leaders. Our nation's senior leaders (mostly) earned their position through demonstrations of effective leadership, (mostly) understand and demonstrate actual leadership, (mostly) care about the welfare of their subordinates and generally make only single digit multiples more income than their troops.

EB has demonstrated no leadership skills that I am aware of. His experience as an auditor puts him more aligned with a senior civil servant auditor in DFAS...with the exception being his immense compensation package.

SD sounds like a great guy by all accounts, but his demonstrably misleading statements about management's intent to be "industry-leading" have me thinking he's no officer-equivalent either.

It's scary to think how advantaged we could be as a company if we actually signed an agreement that was industry-leading in pay, benefits and work rules. Having that option requires a management team that understands motivation, understands sacrifice, and actually values its people over short-term profits. THAT would be leadership and the officers/troops analogy might have some validity.