[Grimmy]

I know I am an "outsider" from an Army perspective but what I see in all this is a need to fire a shit-load of Army brass and radically redesign US Army "career officer" job slots that are outside of actual US Army unit staffing.

There are way way way too many officers in "job slots" that have next to nothing to do with anything functional. Too many people have to generate problems to for their staffs to fix in order to remain relevant and get that promo to General.
If the US Army is so concerned that their Soldiers don't feel motivated or proud enough, then make them get motivated and proud. This is done at the company command level by becoming hard, tough and demanding of excellence.... not by designing a new style of hat or uniform or sloganeering.

I'm not saying the US Army actually has a problem. For as much as I know, this might be something completely made up by a bunch of jerkoffs with nothing else to do by make shit up to fix. Or it might be a real problem. That's the problem with such problems. When the record keepers and data sorters tend to be those that make shit up to feed their own need, know one can ever really know what the fuck is going on.

But if there is a real problem then it's actually about too many unnecessary and irrelevant Lt Col, Col and Gen ranks and not enough tough love at the Capt level.

From my view, as an outsider, the US Army is currently following the US Air Force into becoming more of a national social engineering organization, rather than a maintained fighting force.