The problem isn't that there aren't a lot of ordinary American soldiers and even officers who understand these things. It's that the top brass, and in particular the White House, have been deliberately not listening to them, and firing them if they insisted on pointing these things out.

Even if they'd take you--even if you were willing to pass for a monogamous heterosexual--the odds are you wouldn't have wound up as an instructor at West Point, nor yet as an advisor that Dubya or Cheney would listen to.