Major Jonathan Bratton

Well, first of all, props for cramming in as many general puns as possible there.

Well done.

I raise my coffee cup to you, sir.

Yeah, that's a great question because we sort of approach this militarily right from the soldier background.

We're usually, U.S.

soldiers are pretty great.

We tend to view everything through a very jaded and cynical perspective.

So there's not a lot of sort of looking at the, oh, well, the stars fell down on their shoulders, so we obey them no matter what.

There's always this healthy level of,

It's that leveling spirit of the American spirit, right?

That's just a little bit like, hey, well, aspirational.

I could be that someday.

So I think over time, it's changed.

Absolutely.

From the American Revolution through the Civil War, World Wars to today, you have changing attitudes and norms.

And what's with the stars?

Well, I don't think we have a long enough conversation to go back and look at our uniform and heraldry that we inherited from the British, stole from the French and Germans and Spanish and literally anyone else would give us pretty much anything.

If you remember in the revolution, it all started with a sash.

So I think we should go back to that.

I believe that I think our general officer should wear sashes again.