My info is dated, never served in but spent plenty of quality field time associating with expeditionary army air units. The have a relatively small number of regular officers to advance and eventually represent aviation at higher echelons. They represent, but don't drive the entire problem which is the case for USAF and to a large degree USN, which relies on CVN strike for the bulk of it's conventional power projection.

What's changed?

I was not denigrating the stick monkeys, rather commenting on army cultural attitudes. Pretty sure I didn't get that part wrong...