Quote Originally Posted by mcantar18c View Post
I disagree... the POTUS (and SecDef) should absolutely have military experience.
It's like the equivalent of your new LT being some cherry fuck out of ROTC/OCS that has zero experience in anything, and getting a guy that spent 6 years enlisted and went green-to-gold.
The latter guy will have a much better idea of how to utilize the assets available to him in a more efficient way to achieve a better outcome, because he actually understands their capabilities and value.
It's absolutely not like that at all. A new LT doesn't have the resources in terms of people power to fall back on for advice that a president will. A smart new butter bar will look to senior NCOs for advice and experience just like a smart president will look towards his advisors and confidants and senior people in the military, with military experience, to handle problems requiring the use of the military.

So I guy spends a couple of years in the military as an admin clerk and that's somehow prepping him for when he's eventually elected president? I don't think so.

And if that isn't good enough, then there's no Constitutional requirement that a president must have military experience. That seems to be the black/white answer to so many other things, it should work for this issue, too.