I am honored, thank you everyone. It's nice to be in a place that appreciates a good dildo analogy.
As for the topic at hand - Yes, Amos and Mabus (or Gaybus and Anus as we probably used to say) did some real damage to the identity of the Corps and it's big lesbian mom. We always felt that Anus in particular had it out to leave his skid-mark on the institution by clipping our combat-arms balls. But we saw Amos and Mabus as perfect puppet cogs in a larger system that was becoming more and more afraid of its combat AD/Vets and we resented them for their administrative sabotage. Between those two and the larger institution, they pushed out a TON of our best combat veterans due to a slew of changes that subversively targeted the salt in the infantry. I watched as my friends, brothers, and mentors got forced out at 10 years because they did not make SSgt for any slew of reasons. Even worse were the guys who got admin discharged for minor infractions that built up over time. Pattern of misconduct became a common place hearing. While that sounds like a good move, the best infantryman/combat arms guys were far from Choir Boys, and they haven't been since the dawn of time. So what ended up happening was three things - 1) If you had a defect in your record you were either fucked or had to work five times as hard to make up for it 2) If you had a defect you saw your inevitable toss-out-the-door and stopped giving a shit well ahead of time and 3) You had no defects but you looked at the guys who fell into 1 and 2 and said " There is no future here" and you stop making the military a career and EAS. 95 percent of the grunts were either 1,2, or 3. That's the effect that Mabus and Amos had - they did what no Iraqi or Afghani or German or Brit or Korean or Vietnamese or Japanese soldier could ever do: Kill the spirit of the Corps.
As I said before, Good Riddance. I hope they get caught blowing dogs for quarters, and that is their final legacy.
