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The US military does extensive leadership training for officers. It is based on a thousand years of experience. None of their training materials consist of Star Trek fictional scenarios.

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> We actually studied leadership via Star Trek at the Air Force Academy. There were a lot of practical lessons to learn about decisiveness versus being too rash, or performing your specific role well to help the team. It was an interesting study in real-world leadership through this fictional show.

- Col. Terry Virts, USAF

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/star-trek-...

Makes you wonder how he feels about Hegseth.

I'm not sure many active duty people like Hegseth, I haven't met any yet at least and I am around military folks quite a bit in my life. They all seem to be riding it out until he's fired, impeached, or replaced with the next presidency.

In the meantime: they could well end up being the ones in trouble while Hegseth will be pardoned.

It would be fair to pick out a situation and resolution in ST that did coincide with military doctrine.

In particular, I think (I don't know for a fact) that the military emphasizes that the commander not be best buddies with those under his command.

Perhaps they should include a chapter on the Prime Directive. Or at least remind congress of George Washington's recommendation in his farewell address.

TOS violated the PD in every episode.

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