The smart among you realize that it ' s usually DIV Staff and above who come up with the bullshit ideas . Nobody does this shit just to do it . Everybody is under some kind of pressure from somebody else above them , at every level . I personally believe all the tasking shit and everybody being BMM ' d to death I ' m in one of two FORSCOM BDEs on a TRADOC post , that life is real came form the Surge and the war years when we had enough bodies to support them while still being able to pull mission . Now though , we can ' t do it . We got spoiled with it and now we can ' t hang because we cut all of those bodies out . <| sep |> Certainly you ' ve shown it ' s not a disqualifying factor . But being a woman or a Jew could have made her a less appealing candidate than some other more Christian or male candidate in the eyes of the committee .