My whole point is military experience, i.e. serving in military or not, being a general or not, is

Irrelevant to this position. I disagreed with you only on that point. I have no comments on other reasons you think disqualified Hegseth.

My response to the subject of this thread is clear: It is the job of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE to solve this bureaucratic issue for DOD. See my first post.