Comment by OJFord

6 months ago

What a joke - they couldn't 'serve' their advisory roles without playing dress-up and commissioning directly as Lt Cols?

There is a long history of direct commission oficers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer> in the military.

It seems likely that the reason they've accepted these titles is because they believe that they will be given roles in which they have direct command authority, not just the role of advisor.

However, it also places them in Trump's direct chain of command as CinC. They might not have thought enough about that.