Errr…

Bloody stupid, true, but I don’t think that is actually militarization of the American public. The texts are military texts, presumably read only by military personnel and some academics. The American army is anything but a sample of the American people, and has had its own culture for at least two decades (for instance, children born to officers and NCOs, and raised on army bases, are a distinct subgroup from other children/teenagers, and is referred to as “Army brats”). The civilians and the soldiers – especially the career soldiers – are very different from each other, and the army rarely influences general culture. For instance, military slang, unless it manages to crawl into some big-hit movie, is unlikely to become accepted speech.

Re: Errr…

Well, that’s reason for dismissal on grounds on unfathomable stupidity. Do you know, perchance, their precise response?