Most professional career officers I knew had a total dislike for politicians and the State Department ****heads. If fact, I once refused to allow a State Department official from going on a mission in Afghanistan. Not because it was going to be dangerous- he was just an asshole.
Also correspondents, who nowadays are simply looking for something terrible our side did so they can get a Pulitzer from the Leftist trash who dole them out.
In days of old, when correspondents weren't anywhere near the headhunting assholes they are today, my youngest uncle was an Army NCO in the Korean War, doing the kind of job that would be called LRRP 15 years later. His CO wanted to send a correspondent with them on a mission, and Uncle J told him if he did, the Captain might as well get started on the letter now, because he wouldn't be coming back with them. He was a no-shitter cold-blooded SOB, too, so the CO knew it wasn't just bullshitting around. The CO wisely decided he did not have to take the correspondent on the deep patrol.
