Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime

He means there are many many bureaucratic boxes to be checked and lots of pointless cleaning to be done instead of our actually jobs or training just to be a background prop for a 15 min photo shoot that will be dragged out to all day for the average soldier. If the photo shoot is at 3 pm you can bet everyone is to be in formation in dress uniform at 4 am and to be sent home somewhere around 6 pm or 7 pm. Now that's a nights sleep lost and a whole day lost for no benefit to the average soldier. Oh and every time that dress uniform is put on it needs to be dry cleaned, paid for by the soldier, and then hours are spent putting all the ribbons and pins back on and then getting checked and rechecked.

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