Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[nick crisp]

Is that like tongue in cheek army banter about all of the officers?.

Other Ranks always take the piss out of officers. The joke was that to make an officer, you remove a person's brains. It seems some took it literally.
Of course some officers, especially junior officers, are incompetent. But take any group and that will be the case. And if you're just out of Sandhurst, of course you don't have experience. But some will then use the experience of their veteran NCOs until they gain the necessary experience to be the leaders of men. That, in my book, is how an officer can be good right from the start. We can't all be born a Caesar or an Alexander.